(Topic ID: 320903)

Houdini Stage Switch faulty

By MattWesterville

1 year ago



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#1 1 year ago

Hello,

I recently picked up an American Pinball Houdini and I love it. The only thing is when a ball goes to the stage, it sits there and nothing happens, other than ball search which frees the ball.

I tried calibration of stage (which is a gobble hole with servo driven captive ball) which seems to do nothing. I tried the switch test, now with my finger in that hole i get "stage" switch all the time. However if I plop a ball in there, "stage" sometimes doesn't trigger. It will if I push on the ball. I think the switch is bad.

But I have no idea how to fix it, this isnt a leaf switch on a drop target... any advice?

#2 1 year ago

Call American pinball and discuss it with them. My initial thought would be the captive ball under the stage is slightly to high and it won't register the ball. Something similar happened with mine.

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