Pinbot question - spiral ramp issue and left eye lock issue
So I picked up a Pinbot from KLOVer YODAinMN a couple weeks back... it's my first pin although I have just under a year's worth of experience working on my father's T2 pin he picked up at the end of last summer. Anyways, I've have a couple late night opportunities to play it and am very happy with the cab. I wish I had more time recently but life gets in the way. Anyways, I noticed right away that the spiral ramp seems to be giving me some problems. When shooting the ball it barely gets enough power to get to the first hole on the ramp. I've made it up to the 2nd hole twice but never beyond that. And most of the time the ball seems to hit something on its path to the ramp that causes it to ricochet and not even have enough momentum to make it to the first hole. The shooter spring felt a little loose so I bought all the pieces to rebuild that from marcospecialties.com including the highest tension shooter spring they have. That didn't change anything. Is there a part that can get out of line on this? It's almost like the path doesn't cradle the ball up the ramp and instead it bounces around so much that it looses all of its momentum before it even gets there. The game is level and I have tried an angle anywhere from the front feet sitting all the way at their lowest level up to about half way. Any higher and the gameplay starts getting really slow as the table gets closer to sitting completely flat. So what am I missing?
The only other issue I'm having is when the visor rises. The right eye locks the ball fine but the left eye is "hit or miss" (no pun intended) in that the switch sometimes registers the ball locking and sometimes doesn't. The last test game I played tonight I noticed that when I locked the left eye it still didn't register the ball as locked but the "solar loop" sound played repeatedly as though the ball had passed over the switch on the blue ramp about 25 times in 10 seconds. I assume there is a short somewhere in the wires but I need to take some time to trace them to see what I can see.
Sorry to be long winded. Anyone have any ideas on what I should look for?
So I picked up a Pinbot from KLOVer YODAinMN a couple weeks back... it's my first pin although I have just under a year's worth of experience working on my father's T2 pin he picked up at the end of last summer. Anyways, I've have a couple late night opportunities to play it and am very happy with the cab. I wish I had more time recently but life gets in the way. Anyways, I noticed right away that the spiral ramp seems to be giving me some problems. When shooting the ball it barely gets enough power to get to the first hole on the ramp. I've made it up to the 2nd hole twice but never beyond that. And most of the time the ball seems to hit something on its path to the ramp that causes it to ricochet and not even have enough momentum to make it to the first hole. The shooter spring felt a little loose so I bought all the pieces to rebuild that from marcospecialties.com including the highest tension shooter spring they have. That didn't change anything. Is there a part that can get out of line on this? It's almost like the path doesn't cradle the ball up the ramp and instead it bounces around so much that it looses all of its momentum before it even gets there. The game is level and I have tried an angle anywhere from the front feet sitting all the way at their lowest level up to about half way. Any higher and the gameplay starts getting really slow as the table gets closer to sitting completely flat. So what am I missing?
The only other issue I'm having is when the visor rises. The right eye locks the ball fine but the left eye is "hit or miss" (no pun intended) in that the switch sometimes registers the ball locking and sometimes doesn't. The last test game I played tonight I noticed that when I locked the left eye it still didn't register the ball as locked but the "solar loop" sound played repeatedly as though the ball had passed over the switch on the blue ramp about 25 times in 10 seconds. I assume there is a short somewhere in the wires but I need to take some time to trace them to see what I can see.
Sorry to be long winded. Anyone have any ideas on what I should look for?