Hey folks,

My MET LE is behaving very strangely as of today:

1: The machine is now beginning the Grave Marker multi-ball randomly (without me dropping all of the targets). It happened off a slingshot hit, and even from a right outlane drain!

2: It is not awarding the hurry-up (flashing coffin) shot opportunity when I hit the flashing lane.

3: It's also timing out the And Justice For All mode prematurely (Mode stops without the ball draining before the counter reaches zero).

I had a bad board-mounted LED, so I took the old one out and soldered in a new one today, but other than that, there's been no change to the machine.

I'm really scratching my head on this one...

Thoughts?

It just got weirder:

I tried to simulate the problem with the glass off, and the machine is registering "phantom" grave marker hits! I took the balls out during the grave marker multi-ball and during single ball play, and the machine would periodically register a grave marker switch hit with no ball in play!

Now I'm really befuddled.

Is there a way during normal game play to score a grave marker hit other than to drop one of the thre in-line targets?

Help!

Right loop switch is bad. That explains not awarding the hurry-up shot, but no errors on the cross opto. Main problems persist.

Agreed. I will say though that this weird behavior may have been happening prior to (now that I think about it), as I really don't play the machine much anymore due to the lack of code (I know, this has been beaten to death already). I soldered on two points for the one led board neatly with no dripping or any other goof-ups. Not sure what else to do other than start replacing opto boards.

Here's an update:

I fixed the problem a while ago, but figured I'd post the solution for the good of the board:

The opto in the grave marker "cove" (for lack of a better term) was facing down towards the playfield slightly, rather than shining directly out of the hole towards the left side of the cove into the other side of the opto. This was periodically (read: "Randomly") breaking the beam and causing the phantom hits. I adjusted the opto correctly and all is well.