I have a premium on order that will hopefully ship in this next batch. Are there any tweaks or fixes I should look for when it does arrive?

I'm hoping to hear from my distro this week on a premium. We didn't think we would do a second NIB, but if the wife says go for it I gotta listen.

Added a Premium today. Did a couple of the ball guid fixes by adding some washers. I find the loop to be very satisfying when it doesn't reject. So happy we went with the Premium.

I am noticing that this machine is darker when not in play than my other machines. Is this normal or am I missing something.

Ok so we are loving our Premium, but i am having a issue with the through opto. I get a Tech alert that opto 4 or 5, or 2 or 3 has an issue. When I manually push the ball into the shooter lane the alert will go away. Same for when I do a switch test, and feed the balls in one at a time. The board has the 4 leds lit on it. I have pulled and reset all the connectors, and still get the tech alert every time I check it. I feel like the machine plays right, but just don't know why the machine would give the tech alert for those optos.

Yes when I pull all the balls, and start the switch test the trough registers each switch as I drop in each ball, the shooter lane switch also registers. As far as I can tell the multiballs play properly. I am really new to this machine. I only played the Pro a few times on location. I have noticed that on a couple games I got a random multi ball, "not Iron Man, Portal, or Thor" so not sure what happened. Is it normal for the Portal to only stay up a few seconds? I thought it was staying up until I put a ball in it, but recently it only stays up a couple seconds and goes down even if I didn't get a ball in.

I did the portal test and both switches seemed to register on open and closed. I'll lift the playfield and check the optos also.

I'll give that a look also. After some testing I think my portal opto is intermittent, my through boards seem to not be fully working. The one board has the 1 red led on but the other does not have any of the leds on. Now if switch the red and black wire connector the other board will light all the leds and the other one will not have its led on. When I do this I get NO though switch registering at all, so to be able to play I put the cable back. On my Mando premium both through boards have their leds all lit. So I'm not sure where to go from here. I think I'll need to contact my distro for a new opto, and maybe a cable.
Edit, just checked the through optos and both boards have the leds on. I dont get it.

So I was in contact with my Distro. They are going to send out a new subway entrance opto set, and a new through board set. Hopefully that fixes my issues, if not we will have to contact Stern. Also is the Spinners atrack position the up position?

Is there a setting to get the portal disk to stay open longer?

My subway entrance opto is sketchy so it closes on its own. I have a new opto on the way. I was wondering if in settings I could adjust the stay open time for a chance to put a ball in, but with a bad opto even with an adjustment it still might not work.

I'll give this a try. Since the opto went bad I really done have a chance to actually pick what gem to go for

I would contact your distro. I have a subway entrance opto that's bad, and my through opto boards are sketchy "i get a tech alert after every couple of games " I contacted my distro and they are sending out the parts. If for some reason that doesn't fix the issue they said we would have to get a hold of Stern.

From my experience I wouldn't say common. For my older machines I keep extra switches on hand. If I can find some of the newer Stern Optos in stock I am going to get a couple extras. I havent had a bad opto on any of my other machines, but I have had to replace a few rollover switches.

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I have the issue with the Tower magnet also. I am assuming I am not getting a clean hit to get the magnet to grab it.

Not sure. Mine is a recent biuld. I haven't played any other Premiums.

Stern in sending out new through opto boards for mine. I had to replace the subway entrance opto to get the portal to work properly.

So I received my new Through Opto boards from Stern. After replacing them I am still get the same Tech alerts for random through switches that I was getting with the old boards. It seems to be different each time,but always after a few games. I can go to switch test and clear them when I manually put a ball in the launch lane, by pushing a ball with the through coil. I'm not sure where to look at this point. I don't think it's effecting game play, but why would I keep getting the alerts?

As far as i can tell. I do the switch test by also dropping each ball into the drain, and each switch and corresponding red led lights as the ball goes through each position. They also show proper on the lcd screen when going by each position.

Mine are working but definitely have to replace them down the road. It takes a couple pushes to get them to register. I have a question on game rules. When I get a Portal lock either 1 or 2 and then start a gem quest I get those balls as multi ball during the quest. Is that how the game is supposed to play?

Ok cool thank-you. I'm wondering has anyone else had issues with their through opto switches throwing a tech alert? I'm wondering if after replacing my through boards with new ones from Stern, and still having the issue it's a glitch in the code.

Mine was doing this. I replaced the subway entrance opto, and that fixed it.

I didn't see an answer for this question. I'm still having the problem. The machine seems to play as it should, but i keep getting the tech alerts. I have been working with Stern and they have been great, but as of today still no fix.

These and more for the through. It happens after a game or two, but I can clear them in switch test by just manually pushing a ball into the shooter lane. The game seems to play fine, but something is wrong if it keeps happening. Stern sent me two new through opto boards, but it keeps happening.

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I have done that also. It seems like there is a glitch someplace. Everything seems to work properly during play, and the tests, but the dang tech alert keeps coming back, so something isn't right somewhere in the machine. Stern has had me try a few different things, and no luck. It's crazy because I can clear the alert durring test, but after a game or two one or multiple alerts for the through switch optos comes back.

I had that issue with mine i Turned down the power for the vuk coil. I had to play around with the power settings to find what power to get it to work properly

So I have the Pin Stadium Neo Adam ordered. I thought i read a post about someone having issues with their flippers loosing power and they found it was the pin stadiums hooked up to certain areas. I did a search but can't find the post. Can someone link to it. I would hate to spend this much money, and hook them up wrong and hurt the machine.

Can someone post a pic of the Tower flasher connection. I have the Pin Stadium Neo Adam with the uv and I think I have it hooked up right but I'm not 100% sure.

It's the power supply cooling fan. It's normal on the newer Sterns. There is replacement fan out there that is supposed to be a lot quieter.

Will the update work with spiders custom code?

That's what I was thinking. I'm gonna keep spiders code for me it makes the game a lot better. If I upgrade the Stern memory card to the new code can I switch back to the custom code on its memory card?