Wrong you are...

Anyone get word on their premium? Sounds like there are a few being made just after the LE's before the line switches over to something else, which should be imminent... Fingers crossed I get word soon!

Team Rush San Jose!!! Can't wait to get mine.

Their backboxes have a roughly 1" hole on the top, with a black plastic plug in place to cover it up from the factory. Good spot to run a cable in, even if it is at the very top of the game.

Don't stress - how a game earns on route doesn't always correlate to how good a game is.

I'm hearing soon! YESSSSSS!

1. You can just pull the entire playfield out into service position to gain access. Easy peasy.
2. All you need to do is remove the metal cover over the wiring below the power supply, just a few nuts, also very easy.
3. Photo please?

NICE!!!

Did you check the switch in the VUK to make sure it's registering?

Stern Insider has a nice condensed rule summary. Made it into a printable PDF - a lot easier to read than the tiny print rule card! Print and keep by your game

Rush Rule Summary.pdf

On the premium/LE, has anyone had their center lift ramp end up in a half-raised position? It’s not supposed to do that right?

I think it happens when the ramp is in the raised position and you bash on the blue bumpers on each side of it but I’m not positive, it tends to happen during multiball and it’s tough to watch it that closely then, lol!

Hm okay thanks. I was getting ball traps at the top of the lift ramp, between it and the Time Machine, and used the bias adjustment to lower it a bit in the raised position. Resolved the ball trap but it also causes the home switch to not register in the lower position! I sure wish they would document these adjustments, I could very easily be doing it wrong. I set the lift ramp bias back to zero for now.

How’s everyone else dealing with the ball trap at the top of the lift ramp?

Got it. When I saw that bias adjustment that changes the position in the raised position I was sure that's what it was for, but alas, yeah, I played a lot more last night with the bias reset to 0 (so the home switch registers) and it never ended up halfway raised. Lesson learned! I'm sure a solution for the ball trap will come sooner or later, but yeah since ball search clears it, not the end of the world for now. Thanks all!

I had to try a couple of times before it worked - try power cycling your game and trying again.

Any tips for shooting the RUSH targets? What’s folks preferred approach? Very difficult from a trap. Anyone find a good safe rebound shot instead to make them maybe?

Meanwhile the rest of us are too busy just playing our games Rush is SO GOOD!

Definitely not. Looks like the wire is getting worn down, too, fix that ASAP.

Probably just needs to be put back down under the playfield, and maybe zip-tied if it comes back up - but make sure you account for both the raised and lowered position if zip tying anything, the last thing you want is to zip tie such there isn't enough slack for the ramp to move.

Got my cabinet trim back from the powder coat shop, here's a sneak peek... The color is Prismatic Powder's Illusion Red, pretty happy with how it matches the cabinet lettering. Look forward to installing it this weekend!

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Premium cab looks great in Prismatic Powders Illusion Red! Not quite happy with the T-molding color I bought though, "Bright Red" - going to try again with regular red which is a bit darker and should match the powder coat better.

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Wait so both your node 10 and your friends are toast, sounds like? What part are they replacing? Hopefully not just a new node 10 as that'll get fried too. Keep us up to date on how the underlying cause is diagnosed and resolved, please...

Upper Orbit Switch Adjustment Guide

Is your upper orbit not registering consistently, even after adding a bit of felt to the ball guide? If so you may benefit from adjusting the switch on the orbit to increase its sensitivity.

1. Power off game, take glass off.
2. Press down slowly and gently on the switch in the upper orbit, feeling for when it "clicks". The point where you feel the click is where the game will register the ball going over. Do you have to move the switch arm down quite a bit before it actuates? If so read on. If not, sorry, this guide won't help you. On my game, the switch arm needed to be moved down *considerably* before the switch would click, which means if the ball has any air (or doesn't hit it dead center) it may not register. We're going to adjust the switch so it registers with less downward movement (in other words, we'll make it more sensitive).
3. Raise the playfield to vertical position (don't forget to remove the balls, or stuff a rag in the trough output so the balls don't fly out)
4. Look for the switch in question - it's near the bottom of the playfield when looking at it vertically, a bit left of center.
5. Remove the two red screws holding the switch using a 1/4 inch nut driver.
6. With the switch in your hands, again gently move the arm to actuate the switch, and take note of how much movement it takes for it to actuate (click).
7. Time to bend! See the photo attached. You want to grip the arm at the point shown (two red lines) using pliers and rotate to bend as shown, **gently but firmly**. Do not go overboard here! A tiny amount of bend will change the actuation point dramatically.
8. Try again actuating the switch with your hand. It should click with less movement than before. If the switch doesn't click even pressed all the way in at this point, you bent the arm too much - rotate the opposite of before to un-bend a bit, and try again. I set mine such that it took probably 80%-90% less movement than before to actuate the switch.
9. ** IMPORTANT** - re-install the switch using the two red screws, lower the playfield, and test the switch again from the top side. The switch can make contact with the playfield wood at the end of the arm, so the resting position when installed may be different than when you're testing it free in your hand. Of course, installed is what matters, so don't skip the installed test! Again, take note of how much movement is needed to get it to actuate, and adjust as necessary to have a small amount of movement be sufficient to get the switch to actuate.

My upper orbit is now 100% after this adjustment, woohoo!

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Anyone figure out steps to adjusting the Time Machine to not have a ball trap at the top of the up/down ramp?

The top flipper can't make a shot to the bottom scoop - at the very tip of the flipper, it hits the top scoop. So I don't think this is much of a problem at all.

During Fly By Night the GI does go dark, but it's the whole PF, not just the bottom half...

Right or left flipper? On my machine the shot is totally makable from a trap on the right flipper, but somewhat dangerous from the left one.

I looked today to try to find a way to move the time machine forward as they suggested to eliminate the ball trap at the top of the up/down ramp - yeah no, I can't get it to move. Seems the answer they gave you is more accurate than the one they gave me...

No, the sound effects are not on the music channel. They're their own thing. Here's how to adjust their level:

There are attenuation adjustments for music and speech, but not sound effects. That said, by adjusting speech and music, and changing the overall volume level of the game, you can indeed control the level of sound effects relative to speech and music! Want sound effects louder? attenuate music and speech equally, and raise the game volume. Boom! Want sound effects quieter? Do the exact opposite, add negative attenuation to music and speech and lower the game volume.

This is incredibly generous, wow! Thanks for doing this!!

Don't want to stray off topic too much, but I recently invented a new 3D-printed tool for setting the pitch on pinball machines using a bubble level - check it out in my video, and I've posted the STL file on my blog (linked from the video) so you can print your own!

One of the challenges with the cube ones is it's not as obvious to get it 100% parallel to the slope of the playfield. Rotate it even ever so slightly, and it will read off. But that said, it is a good tool to have. Actually I made a video comparing my favorite methods, check it out!

#3 right here, LZ is fantastic. What a mis-understood game.