Hey guys, I've been noticing a problem with the lights in attract mode where a handful of lights are not displaying the right colors.

This usually occurs after about a dozen games and it carries over from attract mode into a game. I've traced those bulbs back to their boards under the playfield and wiggled and occasionally that has helped. A couple of those connectors weren't seated all the way, so I removed the glue and reseated them, but that didn't resolve anything. Rebooting the game is the only thing that consistently resolves the issue, although it is only temporary.

The bulbs that are lit up in the first photo are the usual suspects, although it can seem more random at times. I'll see if I can post a gif if that helps.

I am also running 1.3

It's not that big of a deal, I just love the light show so much!

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I've done an all lamp test and they all test fine. Although I haven't run a test when they are misbehaving.

Yeah, the problem seems to effect almost every group of LED's. Not every bulb, but usually the same ones.

Thanks Scott, I'll take a look.

When mine was doing the sweeping white all of the time, I noticed that the circuit board was moving back towards the player after several games. It wasn't moving very much, but I could tell that the first sensor was being blocked by the auto plunger just enough so that it was loosing track of the ball. So I would slide the board forward a bit and it would be fixed until it moved again. Once I found the right spot, I hot glued the board in place and I haven't had that problem since. I took some pics of how it is set up now.

Before I noticed my board was moving, I did try adjusting the shooter rod down a bit, by shimming the shooter rod plate, thinking the rod might not be in line with the sensors, but then the green sweep disappeared, or became really unreliable, so I put it back the way it was. I haven't messed with the rubber tip or the foil tape.

Once I got the sensors in the right place, forward to back, it's been pretty solid.

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Sounds like the same issue I had about 6 months ago. First link is the issue I had, and the second link is Scott's solution. It's a little foggy, but I'm pretty sure I reseated the cables in the head that Scott mentioned and that resolved the issue for me.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/total-nuclear-annihilation-cluball-welcome/page/121#post-5314527

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/total-nuclear-annihilation-cluball-welcome/page/121#post-5315657

I had an idea last night for a gameplay feature that I have no idea if it's possible, but it seemed fun and challenging. Basically, as the reactor heats up the flippers become weaker. So if the reactor doesn't reach critical, and the ball leaves the reactor, then the player will need to either complete the keypad for the reactor bonus to strengthen the flippers again (and maybe they become stronger as the keypad nears completion), or as the reactor timer winds down the flippers would regain strength?

I usually don't try and get the reactor bonus and that seemed like a good way to bring that into gameplay more. Maybe if the reactor becomes critical the flippers could become intermittently weak? I really like the idea of the machine becoming effected by the reactor being critical.

The name of the feature just popped in my head, "Radiation Sickness"