I replaced my LOTR flipper coils with the special ones at PBL or Marco (can't remember which) since others had talked about the stock coils being weak. Things worked great after putting those in.

Recently though the flippers seem very powerful and suddenly balls are ricocheting badly, hitting glass, bouncing over flippers or outlane/inlane dividers.

Then I remembered that LOTR software has 3 settings for flipper adjustments. Someone else told me that LOTR doesn't use the EOS but rather relies on these 3 settings to reduce power to the flippers. But now I'm not sure which is true. Does LOTR use the EOS like every other pin?

It could be the EOS switches are not setup correctly after installing the new coils.

Anyone have any ideas on why the flippers would be so powerful? Also, this really came out of the blue. All seemed fine for a good year and I haven't even played it that much over the last 6 months, but suddenly the flippers are crazy powerful.

Thanks for any advice on this.

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll be working on it tomorrow and make sure the EOS are setup correctly. And yeah I haven't messed with the 3 settings, just kept them at default.

Reason I replaced the stock coils was they were really weak. And a lot of LOTR owners recommended it.

Interesting. I remembered now that I originally rebuilt the left flipper as well as installed the new coils because the left flipper was randomly not working. Of course later I found the real issue which was the leaf switch at the flipper button, the contacts were badly pitted.

But I also vaguely recall that the EOS wasn't connected, but could be a bad memory.

Just looked at it and the left EOS might need adjustment as it disengages later than the right and might be more powerful & the root of the problem.

I will take a look at everything mentioned. Thanks for all the feedback and help.

Friend was over last night and he is best repair guy I know locally and at first he just thought it was due to new power strip, etc. but after he played it for a while he thinks it might be something else (but I was too tanked to remember now). Will have to check with him later.

But what didn't seem to make any difference was tweaking the EOS switch, changing settings to 20/40/3, or changing coil pulse power to low.

I'll update when I find out more, but these same coils were not acting like this for a good year and we played the game a lot last night and they never weakened but rather stayed super strong.