i have a pinbot machine that has been working great for years... recently the batteries died (got the the "adjust failure" message) but it was still playing/functioning just fine. no issues with anything except a few burnt out bulbs and some rubber bands that i replace as they snap.
anyways, this weekend i finally opened it up to change the batteries and then i reset everything in the settings. afterwards, i started experiencing the following oddness:
when i press the credit button (i have it in free play mode), and between balls, the visor opens and closes itself 5 times. it ends this cycle in the "open visor" mode. only after it finishes this cycle it will release a ball into the "plunger area" (sorry, not sure what that is called). the visor repeats this "open/close cycle" between every ball no matter how many players are in the game. the visor then stays in the open position for the rest of the game.
everything else seems to be fine in the game, and i could probably live with waiting for the cycle to finish before the ball launches, but the visor staying in the open position effects game play, so it seems like something i want to take care of.
any suggestions? any help would be appreciated, but remember, i'm a pinball newb. i have just replaced the batteries, but between that and doing the rubber band swaps on the playfield, that's about the extent of my pinball maintainence experience...
thanks!
anyways, this weekend i finally opened it up to change the batteries and then i reset everything in the settings. afterwards, i started experiencing the following oddness:
when i press the credit button (i have it in free play mode), and between balls, the visor opens and closes itself 5 times. it ends this cycle in the "open visor" mode. only after it finishes this cycle it will release a ball into the "plunger area" (sorry, not sure what that is called). the visor repeats this "open/close cycle" between every ball no matter how many players are in the game. the visor then stays in the open position for the rest of the game.
everything else seems to be fine in the game, and i could probably live with waiting for the cycle to finish before the ball launches, but the visor staying in the open position effects game play, so it seems like something i want to take care of.
any suggestions? any help would be appreciated, but remember, i'm a pinball newb. i have just replaced the batteries, but between that and doing the rubber band swaps on the playfield, that's about the extent of my pinball maintainence experience...
thanks!