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Over the past weekend I replaced the M-E-T-E-O-R targets and its springs thinking that this will fix the issue that at start up of a game, some targets will drop, but no.. not as often as they used to do though, but still sometimes some targets will drop by their own. Any other suggestion on how to resolve this issue? Also, while I was I was there I removed a couple of loops from the springs that holds the metal plate on the coil armature.
TIA!
~ja
Quoted from zacaj:Is it always the targets at one end? I had that problem with my ME targets, needed to adjust the reset arm
No, they go up fine... I found a thread on how to adjust the reset bar and that is fine, mine are random "drops", sometimes the M, maybe one E sometimes a T and an R an so on.
Quoted from setzkor:On mine I had to adjust the metal fingers near the top to stick out further/higher to catch the lip on the target. Another issue I saw was due to bowing in the mech, causing the middle to fall easier...so I bent it back into place. Basically if that metal finger doesn't extend far enough it won't hold the target.
I think that's what I need to do... can you please elaborate on how to adjust that tiny metal finger so it can have a better "grip" of the target.
Many thanks!
~ja
Quoted from setzkor:The other thing you could see is the frame plate holding the coils is bowed, if so straighten it. This too could cause the metal fingers to not move forward enough to grab the lip. Again you should be able to do most of this adjustment with the mech pulled. Raise the lift arm at the bottom by hand... Move the coil forward or bend the finger as needed. Then pull the finger back as the coil would to confirm the targets drop as they should as well.... You can move them too far!
Ok... I'm assuming that Stern used this design on other machines, correct? like Flight 2000 which I'm about to work on it.
Once again, thanks to all for their input!
~ja
Hello to all!
So... I have a meteor which has all 3 Altek boards and a Rottendog rectifier board for months without any issue until now. Over the weekend I hosted a small tournament which as you know, these are torture test for the machines, a few hours into the tournament, the machine will randomly reboot, no matter what ball, no matter if you're flipping or not, it will just reboot... sigh... any ideas on what to look for this odd behavior?
Many thanks!
~jose
Quoted from brenna98:try wiggling the connectors with the game on. particularly the mpu connectors.
If it reboots, repin those connectors.
Will do! and I'll report my findings!
Thanks!
~ja
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