no good gofers ball counter issue

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my father in law has a no good gofers that is having an issue related to the ball counter, possibly. it plays fine at first and ejects one ball into the shooter at a time, but when a ball goes into the lock, it will start to eject two at a time.

i ran through the tests last time i was at their house, and everything looked fine.

however, the thing i think wrong with it is that it doesn't have the right amount of balls. it has 6 in the game, 1 captive, 1 right below the captive that's 'stuck' (magnetized or something), and then 4 in the tray.

at the base of the playfield under the lock plate it states install 6 balls, but in the manual it says 6 balls + 1 captive, but isn't any more specific than that. so, should there actually be a total of 7 balls including the captive? my thinking is that if there is one less ball, when the ball is locked, there aren't enough in the ball trough making the sensor count wrong and throw another ball into the shooter.

or am i wrong and there's something entirely different going on there?
 
all you can do is install 7 balls and see what happens. Some games wont even run if you dont have the correct balls installed like Freddy. It wont even let you fire off the first ball if all you have is 2 installed and it needs 3. I got a Dr. Dude that will always eject 2 balls one after the other and I havent gotten around to figuring that one out yet.
 
There should be 6 playable balls in the trough when you turn on the game. The captive ball and the newton ball don't count toward the 6.

Does the game have a Credit Dot? If so - when you open the coin door, it will alert you of any technical problems sensed by the machine.
 
If the game is spitting out multiple balls, it sounds like either you have a bad opto in the ball trough, or a pitted ball trough. Sometimes these troughs get pits from the balls bouncing around in them (like not removing them when the game is in transport). You may need to sand down the grooves in the trough so that they are smooth again and do not hold the balls in the pits.

Oh, and NGG takes 6 balls in the trough.

-Mike
 
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