476 replies to this topic

[uberpinball]

Impressive!!
 
Is it possible, when you pull the rod out too far, to gently bring it back to it's start position without shooting the ball away so you can pull it back again less for a skill shot?

Yes. It acts just like a real plunger.

[thewool]

Noah, this looks great!

 

Could you do me a favour and measure the shround around the plunger, specifically near the tip?

 

At the moment the tip of my Williams plunger is nearly touching the bottom edge of my LCD. I would just like to make sure it will fit, or at least fit without any major modifications to my cab.

 

Cheers.

[Hyper]

Impressive!!
 
Is it possible, when you pull the rod out too far, to gently bring it back to it's start position without shooting the ball away so you can pull it back again less for a skill shot?

Yes. It acts just like a real plunger.

 

If you don't mind I really like that Noah confirms your answer.

[uberpinball]

Impressive!!
 
Is it possible, when you pull the rod out too far, to gently bring it back to it's start position without shooting the ball away so you can pull it back again less for a skill shot?

Yes. It acts just like a real plunger.

 
If you don't mind I really like that Noah confirms your answer.

No problem. But I have the nanotech plunger and it behaves exactly the same minus the auto calibration.

[Noah Fentz]

Impressive!!
 
Is it possible, when you pull the rod out too far, to gently bring it back to it's start position without shooting the ball away so you can pull it back again less for a skill shot?

Yes, you can slowly release it without shooting the ball.

@ thewool - Sure, I'll measure it for you today.

[Hyper]

Thanks Paul,

 

Earlier this afternoon I ordered one.

Did you read my request regarding the bolts/nuts?

 

Ton

[toolmaker]

Has any testing been done to see how heat fluctuations will affect the calibration? Once you start up your cab and the unit self calibrates, the internal temp of the cab is relatively cool. Over time, this will change and I was wondering if an increase in heat will affect the initial calibration? 

[Hyper]

Most cab users have intake vents in that place, so I guess heat isn't an issue.

[toolmaker]

Most cab users have intake vents in that place, so I guess heat isn't an issue.

 

Doesn’t matter how many vents and or fans you have, there will still be a temperature difference from a cold start up to minutes after start up.

My experience with both the Nanotech and Ultimarc solutions is that heat fluctuations affected the performance and calibration of the units even with vents and fans.

[uberpinball]

Most cab users have intake vents in that place, so I guess heat isn't an issue.

 
Doesn’t matter how many vents and or fans you have, there will still be a temperature difference from a cold start up to minutes after start up.
My experience with both the Nanotech and Ultimarc solutions is that heat fluctuations affected the performance and calibration of the units even with vents and fans.

This is true as I experienced with the Nanotech controller. I guess with this VirtuaPin plunger kit you could disable and re-enable the Game Controller which it identifies as on start up and it would recalibrate? Not sure. It's not feasible to have to unplug it and plug it back in for a warmed up cab.

To bad it doesn't have an option to save desired calibrations and just load them whenever. I guess you 'could' use DXTweak or DiView to see what the initial calibration is that it auto calibrates and save that, then if you have a issue once your cab warms up just open DXTweak and reload the cold startup calibrations. Wonder how the board would react to that.

[Noah Fentz]

Heat has not been an issue, at all, in our testing, and there is no need for external software whatsoever.

[hotdp]

Noah, Can you make video where we can see it all in action? Plunger and Nudge?

Edited by hotdp, 22 May 2013 - 04:44 PM.

[toolmaker]

Noah, Can you make video where we can see it all in action? Plunger and Nudge?

 

See the beginning of this topic.

Edited by toolmaker, 22 May 2013 - 06:00 PM.

[hotdp]

Noah, Can you make video where we can see it all in action? Plunger and Nudge?

 

See the beginning of this topic.

 

I have seen that movie many times. Sadly I forgot some words :-S I wanted to ask if we could see a video of a "real table" and not only the zero slope?

Also I have heard that the nudge implementation of each table can be very different bad/good. Does any have comments on that? And what could the solution be?

[Noah Fentz]

Noah, Can you make video where we can see it all in action? Plunger and Nudge?

 

Yes, of course. Just a bit of time needed ...

[Agrajag]

Well this looks mighty impressive from what I've seen so far. I'm still planning my minipin, but having to spend my time and money on other things at present. If circumstances ever allow me to actually build it, I guess I know what I'll be using to control it!

[jadflat]

[quote name='Noah Fentz' timestamp='1369107383' post='226293']Noah,
 
Thats great.  Estimated time when they will be shipped?
 
Thanks
 
I have a small number to ship tomorrow, and 20 more kits coming toward the end of the week. No one should have to wait more than two weeks to receive shipping notification at this point. I'll have surplus kits within the next two weeks for those who have yet to order.
 

 
Hi, any idea when these will be shipping out? My status have been on packing for five days?
Thanks

[The Loafer]

Hey everyone,

So the good news, after being stuck at the border for a couple of days and missing the last shipment to my closest post office by about 1 hour on Friday, I have finally just received the kit.

The bad news? Nothing wrong with the kit, but time is against me as I am leaving tomorrow to visit my mom near Winnipeg (by car, she is 23 hours away from where I live!). I will try and plug this in tonight and give a report but the likelihood is that I am going to install this on my return June 5th.

If family duties can clear up tonight, I will try my best to install it and report back.

Edited by The Loafer, 27 May 2013 - 10:35 PM.

[Noah Fentz]

I'll be shipping a number of kits out tomorrow. We should be caught up with pre-orders within the next couple weeks, with surplus.

[jadflat]

Great, looking forward to getting it installed Sent from my Nexus 4 using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2