Hello Crew,

Have a strange issue going on with my Mist Ball on BSD. The game has new long range optos that have been tested out on another game. Some work has been done to the 24 opto board and all seems to be working properly. My issue is in test mode "magnet" the game operates perfectly. Game will load the ball, take it back and forth just fine & runs the magnet unloaded fine. When I play a game and get mist ball, the ball will half way across the playfield and drop off the magnet. I've also noticed that while playing it will sometimes just release the ball out of the gate.

The game isn't showing a credit dot and nothing is coming up wrong in test mode. I've gone into switch edges and tested all the switches and found no problems. What's stumping me is why it works fine in test mode (have it probably 20 times and its never dropped the ball), but yet drops it 100% in game play. I've taken a magnet and drawn the ball from one side to the other in switch edge and it doesn't seem to have a dead spot coming across the playfield.

Anyone have any ideas why it works fine in test and doesn't work in game play?

Thanks in advance.

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Can you elaborate? Not sure what you're talking about.

Received more feedback and this isn't the problem as it's loading the ball in the gate at start and holding there until mist ball begins. My understanding is if this is disabled it won't even load a ball.

It's just odd that it works perfect in test and does the consistent drop half way across in play.

Thanks for the response. Was your issue that the ball would fall off half way across? I'm assuming that you mounted the plastic tube to the transmitter, not the receiver correct? I don't seem to have a switch not receiving issue as it works fine in switch edge and in magnet test.

Still stumped.

Thanks Ryan. I'll give that a shot tonight.

Tried the pounding on the playfield and there was no change on the status of switch 82. I'm thinking it might be an alignment issue.

Is anyone aware, if I have an alignment issue and the as the ball is coming across and the receiver receives the signal from the transmitter - does that trigger the magnet to shut off?

The game currently has (2) receiver housings on the left side.

So this would probably point in the direction of an alignment issue then I'm guessing. I'm thinking somehow the receiver is getting the signal as the ball comes across the playfield causing it to release the ball.

No LED's.

Life has been a little busy, so I hadn't had a chance to do more testing until now. Quick recap - game is working just fine in magnet test and not showing a credit dot. In game play it would drop the ball as it crossed right to left.

I ended up mounting a tube on the receiver (left side) and the ball has no problem going right to left. Here's where it gets weird. When transferring ball from left to right, the ball will make it about 3/4 of the way and then it drops/falls off magnet. I've tried this 3 different days and it's always the same result - ball falls off on the return left to right. Even weirder, if the game has been turned on for awhile the game plays just fine (doesn't fall off at all). At least the three times that I've tried.

I thought about putting a tube on the transmitter. Any other thoughts out there?