Ball Search ???? maybe from a magnetic charge to the ball

[swinks]

Question - does anyone ever get the ball going down the drain and then the machine does a ball search. I am wondering if it is V1.6 on Iron Man or maybe the ball has a magnetic charge and the ball does not fully roll down the ramp under the apron to activate the switch?

What I think solves the problem is giving the machine a good nudge and then most of the time the problem is fixed.

Has anyone else experienced this with a pinball with magnets, and if so is there a solution - particular part you can purchase or should I look at something to de-magnetise the balls every now and then.

Any help / experiences would be appreciated.

[Caveoftreasures]

sounds like your roll over switches on the machine in the trough need cleaning IF thats what STERN uses, unless it is a out of line opto.  Not sure what a ironman uses, but i find on any of my machines the above will fix it very easily.

[MartyJ]

Swinks,

To answer your question from experience, YES.

On my CV and a customers CV had exactly the same thing.  Generally the balls would become magnetized and if two or more balls were next to each other -ie ball trough yes they stick together.

I bought the carbon balls from RTBB and fixed the problem instantly.

[swinks]

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[beaky]

does it have optos or roll over switches? (i didn't take notice on the last iron man I serviced)

[swinks]

Has roll over switches.

[rads]

I reckon the switches need adjusting.

[Greg]

Thanks guys, much appreciated visit RTBB today

if you have a game with carbon balls  swap over then play a dozen or so games and see if the same thing happens
 in the ball trough


its a quicker and cheaper option

[swinks]

The three machines that I have all had new balls / or good quality balls when I got them (with IM probably the exception) - and I don't know what is what.

I did give the IM a good clean yesterday and noticed the balls had alot of ultra fine powder on them - so cleaned under the apron, all over the playfield etc and the balls and then had 20 odd games with no dramas. There was no switch faults and everything seems fine on that side of things. I will place a order for balls today Greg so I can do a change out as I think these balls have had a good use out on the field anyway.

Thanks again for everyone's comments - I will just observe any issues until the balls arrive and then see if I can get a good amount of games on it without any dramas.

[beaky]

I would say it's a roll over switch.