Those are the three settings you have to change. I don't remember what the recommended settings are but I bet you can find them in a search for this same topic. The coils are only strong for the first ball or two when cold, then they settle down to a good strength once warmed up.

There is a medium strength coil option available...

ebay.com link: New Stern Pinball Medium Power Coil Lord of the Rings Guns Roses sleeve
ebay.com link: New Stern Pinball Medium Power Coil Lord of the Rings LE with sleeve

They're made by Andrew Barney (APB Enterprises), who is a Pinside member.

Make sure you get the right model for your specific game (Std or LE).

Take them out and put the stock one back in. I had to do it to mine WAY too powerful.

I put the medium strength ones in mine and they are perfect, much better than the stock ones, I would be afraid of the high strength ones.

You're better off with a fan on the normal coils and properly rebuild them and it'll play fine

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-are-these-lotr-flipper-adjustments

the upgraded coils are the best.. but if you want original, i still have mine

http://www.sternpinball.com/service-bulletins/service-bulletin-151-the-lord-of-the-rings

The upgraded coils are for those that don't know how to rebuild flippers. Even the stock coils are super strong and over powered. Someone goes and upgrades them and then someone else rebuilds the flippers properly and the coils are ridiculous after. Put the stock coils in and read vid1900's guide on how to rebuild flippers and you're good.

For the most part the upgraded coils are a little too strong to fully fix with flipper strength adjustment but you can get some of the way there. As you found out any reduction in flipper power also results in a reduction in power to, at least, the Gollum VUK.

There are 3 flipper adjustments, good luck!

FLIPPER ADJ 1: 05-40 - Default 10 - Minimum fire time
FLIPPER ADJ 2: 40-60 - Default 50 - Max fire time
FLIPPER ADJ 3: 00-10 - Default 03 - Fire time after EOS

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here is where the upgraded coils come into play.. when you are doing the 30 minute plus games. the coils don't have the fade that original did

Would love some feedback on this, how did they work out?

Andrew

Exactly. Trying to make the ring shot with weak flippers is the worst. I disagree with the people saying the flippers just need rebuilt because I have experienced it on NIB games when everything was brand new. Every machine will play differently and there might not be a single solution for everyone. My LE only has a few hundred plays and the upgraded coils never made them feel too strong however they still have enough power to make the ring shot on long games.