Quoted from orlandu81:Hello Everyone - A new problem reared its ugly head tonight.
In short, when I go to the POA, if I move the mini playfield the switches on the playfield don't register when the ball trips them and it's like the mode just kind of ends. In fact, if I fall through the pit hole it doesn't do the scream noise and it actually will show the cut screen of the snow sledding scene that happens when you trip the microswitch under the mini PF directly in front of the arrow as the ball crosses it. If I do NOT trigger the mini playfield to move at all during the POA mode, the switches trip fine and when the ball drops into the pit, I hear the scream and see the proper video sequence.
Any ideas what is causing the movement of the mini PF to cancel out the mode? The only thing that I did differently is earlier today I had to adjust the metal post slightly at the point the ball drops into the PF because the ball was dropping more to one side (I recently changed the armor the other day and that messed with L/R balance of the machine slightly). Nothing else is different. No errors are showing up. The switches all activate properly in test mode. The mini PF motor works great in test mode.
Please any advice would be appreciated, the game is currently unplayable if I can't rely on the POA to work properly all of a sudden.
To me, it sounds like a crossed wire somewhere. The same old problem of having multiple switches fire when you trigger something unrelated. Perhaps when the POA triggers its left/right limit switch, it ALSO triggers a lower playfield switch, tricking the game into thinking the ball had already left the POA. Could be the flippers doing it, too.
I'd put it into switch test mode, and test both the flippers and activate the optos on the POA manually (the ones on the board, not the pit or EB holes), and see if you get that flicker of more than one switch activating. You said that it works fine if you don't move it side to side, so that probably rules out the POA entry switch or any of the lane switches.
Also, I just woke up, and it's possible everything I just said is nonsense. Good luck!