Same here. I feel for the people with issues, but mine worked 100% right out of the box. Absolutely incredible pin!

This game is incredible, nothing more to say. The family is out of town this weekend so I was able to put some serious time on it. A couple things I noticed...

Anyone get to the “666” mode, or whatever you want to call it? Massive stacked Multiball where I think had every Multiball going, and I may have collected all of the SP’s. All of a sudden over the whole screen “666” floated over all the Multiball flags, but not sure what I did to activate it.

I’ve been lucky, and haven’t had any issues with my pin except for a “pearl left flipper EOS error” like the earlier poster. I haven’t had to make one repair, just some small adjustments here and there, but the EOS switch error is throwing me for a loop. I looked it over and everything seems fine, even pulling the pearl to make sure I didn’t have a wire break off. Not sure where to go from here, but at least it doesn’t stop play.

Lastly, if I had one complaint it would be the noise from the spinning disk. I think they’re mod1 pinions which are pretty common in the rc world. One of my huge speed helis has the same metal to metal gear, and we use a lubricant called “dry fluid extreme”. It dries almost like a grease, but when applied is liquid form so it gets in all the nooks. It made a huge difference on the lower rpm spins, and took away rattling noise during high speed spins. It didn’t take away all the noise, but did a great job making it just a bit quieter and calming the loudest of spins. I’ll post the lubricant info when I get home if anyone is interested.

Overall, absolutely having a blast. It’s always a tough pill to swallow when buying a JJP machine as they are so darn expensive, but I haven’t been disappointed yet by the final product. They are 4 for 4 in my house, and I can’t wait to see what they come out with next.

Thanks!

Sure, I’ll pull it again tomorrow and recheck. I will say on every JJP game I’ve had I had trough issues. 95% of the time it’s been magnetized balls. Heck, with JJP stock balls, my woz would had a 50% success rate after 50 plays. It was crazy how fast they magnetized. If it was me, the first thing I would try would be a new set, because the stock JJP balls have been notoriously bad for me. I actually have a gauss meter and could test the magnetic strength tomorrow afternoon and see how bad they are, because my POTC trough has gotten flakier little by little over the last 100 games.

Thanks! Will give it a shot!

You need to tighten the nut that holds the flipper shaft in place. One of mine did the same thing, and I moved it into the correct position by hand then tightened the nut that clamps down on the shaft. It’s a little difficult on the right side of the ship, but if you pull the cotter pin in the back it’s doable without removing the ship.

This was always the problem with high end rc helis and the gears attracting dirt. Most everyone that has metal to metal gears uses the dryfluids because it’s drys on the gear, but doesn’t become “sticky”, but also doesn’t sling off. Here is the link to their webpage, and you have to get the “dryfluids extreme gear” one.

https://www.dry-fluids.com/dryfluid-gear-lube-1.html

Just to temper expectations, it doesn’t remove all the noise, but it definitely made it quieter, and also got rid of that terrible rattling at high speed. The most important part was the lack of attracting debris, since in the past things have gotten worse quickly after applying lubes that got sticky. I also use it on my bike, and some other things around the house that I would typically get a application of grease. It came out about 3 years ago and has been really popular ever since.

Can anyone confirm the wiring on my black pearl switches? I had a wire come off the switch, and has a EOS error, so i decided to pull the black pearl. When i finally got it into position, I had two more wires broken. I didn’t realize they were daisy chained until I cut the ziptie. It seems to me to be wired together correctly and I don’t see anymore issues, but all three aren’t registering now (9,10 and 12). Attached is an image of how it’s wired. If anyone familiar with it can confirm if I have it done correctly, it would be appreciated. Also, if someone has images of how theirs is laid out I can probably confirm against that as well. I also let a green and white wire make contact, but not sure if there is any fuses associated with these sets of switches. Any guidance would be appreciated!

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This is 100% the ideal solution.

Edit: thought they were metal gears simply from the amount of noise, but they are definitely plastic. Hopefully your mod helps because it’s my only real complaint about the pin. Nice work!

Damn, you’re def right. I just have never seen a plastic gear that loud, it literally whines like a metal straight gear. Why didn’t they use a helical or delrin gear? Plus the mod 1 pitch seems slightly overkill for the application, but I guess you don’t have too many gears making a Quick transitions like this does. Hopefully your mod helps with the noise because it’s my only real complaint about the pin, otherwise it’s pretty perfect.

Cut the ziptie and look further down the line. All three of those targets are daisy chained together and if the wire is broken somewhere in the bundle of ziptied wires (like mine was) then they won’t register at all. I think it’s the green and brown wire, but not 100% on the color

Yes, and finally found that it was a broken wire inside the the bundle of wires. Once I cut all the zip ties i easily found it and all three of those targets started working.

Glad to hear!