Hi All,

Just joined the club, will put up some photos of my game at some point. It has 2 issues currently which I'm going to have a go at fixing but would'nt mind being pointed in the right direction.

The main issue is the gumball is not working correctly, currently when I shoot a ball in it goes into the popper no problem, round and into the gumball and the game immediately loses track of it and instantly goes into a ballsearch (it doesn't even wait 10 seconds, just straight away does a ball search). After about 30 seconds it will release a ball from the gumball. I would have thought either the Geneva switch (which is brand new, the previous owner told me he completely replaced this and it is still flakey) or optos as the ball enters the gumball are at fault here but has anyone else had this issue?

Secondly my clock is super loud, even with the glass on. Can anyone recommend a way to quiet it down? I'm also having an issue where the top opto (so the 12 on the clock face) every 1 out of 4 rotations roughly of the hands or so does not trigger the opto, and the game give me a 'clock broken' error. The game has a new LED clock board in so would this be an opto issue? I'm not convinced it is the hand as this makes contact and breaks the beam 100% of the time on the other 3 optos.

Thanks for any advice!

Thanks for the advice, any link as to where I can get it from?

I literally did this last night (replaced some really dim LED's with bendy ones to light the inserts better). You can follow the manual but the easiest way I found to do it was the following:

1) Pull playfield up so it is resting on service rails.
2) Remove nut above playfield post on right, screw where the mini-playfield joins the ramp and there are 2 screws mounted to a metal plate on the lower left side above the pop bumpers (these are the worst 2, they are slightly underneath and in a bit of an awkward position). In total 4 things to remove.
3) Slide mini playfield forward - it should slide under the ramp and forward, if you are finding it is catching it is likely the wires from the lamp are behind the metal mounting bracket, move these round the bracket. As it slides forward feed the wires through the playfeld.
4) With the playfield out you should have enough slack with the wires to turn it sideways and get underneath, you will be greeted with a large cardboard protector mounted in place by 5 screws. Remove 2 of the screws that are close to the top which will allow you to bend the cardboard back enough to get to the lamps.
5) Replace lamps, there is also a flasher here so remember to do this as well.
6) Roughly mount playfield back in place, turn game on - test all lamps work, if they don't remove and adjust as required. (worst thing would be putting it all back and finding out 1 of them doesn't work!)
7) Remount into place. Enjoy new lamps!

The manual suggested unplugging the 4 connectors that attach to the mini-playfield but I found this wasn't necessary as I only had to get it out enough to replace the lamps and there was enough slack on the wires. If you do decide to do this MARK THEM - there are 2 with practically the same wiring and if you plug them in the wrong way round you will blow something up.

Spot on, I always thought it was a bit of an oddity they refer to this in technical terms - in LOTR during the Escape the RingWraiths mode the first shot is to the VUK, and the DMD literally displays "Shoot VUK" - Joe Public is going to have no idea what a VUK is