Highest-star mode completed, order doesn't matter

Hi folks, hoping someone has experienced this problem and has a fix or some troubleshooting tips. Both of the beast mechs towards the back of the game make an attempt, come up half way, go back down, fire again, and raise up the whole way and stay up via the hold. The two beasts closer to the flippers do not have this issue. They're both also pretty squeaky

I've made sure there are no wires in the way and they've got freedom of movement, and checked the alignment. Any other thoughts or have folks had this before and come across a fix?

Thanks!

Thanks much, I will definitely do that.

Every time, and the beasts aren't registering extraneous hits so the microswitches are working as intended.

Yeah I'm a bit stumped but I'm gonna open up one of them and give it a good look. And thanks to everyone for all the suggestions and comments.

Appreciate the compliment and thanks for tuning in!

If that happens, is the behavior for it to come back up and stay up until hit or time out? That's what I'm seeing so yeah I'll definitely check the switches first and go from there.

Appreciate the thoughts again.

Just wanted to mention this to Hobbit owners...I did the beta testing and temp checks for Pinmonk's JJP flipper cooling fans. Results were very satisfying to say the least.

Coil temps with the fans never crested 100F over a 90 minute play session and I saw no noticeable flipper fade through the whole time, whereas without the fans, flippers were noticeably weaker by the 60 minute mark of the initial test.

Would highly recommend if you find yourself playing for 60 or more minutes at a time.

No footage but I can say the install process is relatively straightforward, mostly you just have to be cognizant of cable management. The documentation provided is very clear and thorough which is great. The biggest pain was the upper flipper as it's a rat's nest of cables around it so I spent most of my time working around that and the re-ziptieing cables

With the fans installed, I had no issues backhanding ramps throughout the whole play session, a really nice change. I'll be buying them for other JJP games for sure as soon as they're available.

Factory coil strength on all flippers for testing...I have the extended leg levelers all the way up in back and all the way down in front and have no issues with any shots until I play for a while...theoretically though you could always turn the coil strength down if you can still comfortably make shots. Obviously setups are all different so YMMV.

To the game time length post, I don't have the center post in or inlane and outlane rubbers on my game to keep ball times down so if you're consistently playing 60-minute games, you very well could see different results as well...just want to be transparent

Lots of physical and code setting adjustments you can make to the game if you want to reduce ball times if that's your concern. I removed the center post and the inlane/outlane rubbers to keep ball times down and keep it interesting. You could always put in lightning flippers or turn off extra balls, turn up the mode difficulty or turn up the Erebor difficulty.

People seem to state that Hobbit plays too long quite a bit, so it's nice to have the options to tailor the game to your needs both on the playfield and with software.