Just got a premium and started having random end of ball issues. Will be playing ball still active on playfield and the end of ball sequence kicks in. Wondering if I have a faulty trough board? I’ve put in switch mode and banged on playfield no close switches were noticed. Anyone else have this weird behavior?

So didn't get much help from pinside but after 2 weeks, 5 calls to Stern Tech support and robbing several boards out of mando we finally found the issues. It turned out to be a flakey com port on the MPU. When I moved the cable to the spare input the problem stopped. After using my mando's trough,node 8, and a spare cat 5 cable I was waiting on hold again for stern I said why not swap ports. An viola fixed the issue. Stern is sending me a new MPU but they need to marry it to my Serial number of the game so 3-4 week wait. So the days of having a spare mpu board are long gone. Prob another "advancement" of the Insider connect.

So hopefully this helps another owner down the road. Stern build quality is certainly become an issue of late. Never had a NIB game give me this much trouble (Broken Start Button, spinner broke on electric Magic, Flap on Shooter lane, Icarus issues and now rando ball ends on a game with less than 100 plays, and I've been collecting for 20+ years hope this is just a one off but after talking to my distributer not an uncommon issue lately... Game rocks however have enjoyed playing it since the fix but it was down for 3 weeks and lot a wasted time on hold to get to the bottom of the issues. Glad I had a mando to rob parts god knows how long I would have waited if I didn't make the troubleshooting easy for them.
Happy Flipping,
Al

Yeah when I first played in on roll out I was a bit underwhelmed by it.. It was on location and you couldn't really hear the music. Then a few code updates I began to gravitate towards it. Then it went on the if I get a good deal I'll get one list. As luck would have it traded a nice Mustang plus a couple nice ems for a new in the box premium that was a demo. Unfortunately the gremlins also came with it. Think this is a dark horse stern premium that will gain more following once people start to understand the rule set. A lot deeper than my first impression and I enjoy the challenge of building the Icarus bonus up by converting combos. Good news is stern will not rerun it like my original ACDC premium so I think the value will stabilize and may appreciate considering what I have into it. Will be a good tournament machine we have it as hole #1 at next week's Pingolf Masters we are hosting at my garage. Its a par three with the objective of getting electric magic jackpot. Should be easy hole in one for some but for others could end up a solid bogey. Will see how the field handles the challenge.