Chaz in Stern's tech support says that this is gonna short out other features of the game within a short period of time. There will be a 1.3 according to him that will clean up the leftovers.

I think waiting makes sense.

Great post Greg and kudos to Mr Borg for this tweak nice to see a designer shouting up small tweaks instead of leaving buyers waiting.

I figured this issue of the lock timing would be addressed with software. Just have to wait for it I guess. I've had a ball or two launch in the air by the prongs.

Mine does the same thing at times.I noticed the prongs can also be raised some when lowered to help resolve this but there is no adjustment on the mech.

Again the duty cycle and pwm on the coil needs to be decreased to allow a quicker discharge. This allows the coil to re-fire faster. Increasing pwm or duty tells the coil to store more energy before it fires. This equates to a longer reset coil time.

This is also exactly how efi injectors work low and high Impedance. Low Z injectors have inline resistors to handle this.... I DIGRESS!

Just a thought.... I have been keeping up with all the X-MEN talk and with the new 1.2 code update. Someone said that Stern lowered the coil power (duty cycle) via the code change. Mine machine was working just fine before the update. Now it is releasing them wrong. It's possible the coil can't response quick enough. I will try setting the coil power to the strongest setting and test it to see if that helps..... Definitely the setup is different with the code update

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the update has made the Magneto ball lock worse. Very noticeable. Two balls bounce out regularly, and often the second will be launched upwards by the prongs.

Yes, but percentage wise, I'm having two balls released way more than under the prior code.

Strange. Mine actually does a multi-release less frequently with 1.2.

Totally agreed with you..... the update needs to be tweaked some more, but other than that I think it was very impressive. I will try to decrease the playfield angle also to see if that helps. I am willing sacrifice some speed to get the ball lock to work.

Yea. I agree with rarehero's assessment. In previous code it almost never released only one ball because lock was almost always lit. In this version it almost always releases one ball so you notice it way more.

I had troubles with the lock rollover switch right out of the box. I had to bend the wire up a bit so the ball resting against the capture pins would regularly keep the rollover down. It would some times but other times (or when another ball would enter the lock and make the front ball resettle) it would make the switch lose contact and "lose" the ball that was setting right on it.

After adjusting it with a little bend up...it worked fine throughout 1.1. I was happy that all it needed was a little adjustment, but I think I may also wait for another update since I'm pretty sure it's a software issue and it's good to know that they have been informed about it.

Thanks for the info.

Was playing the other night and every time, yes every time, it released two balls instead of one. Most of the time the second went flying up in the air. Definately needs a fix for this.