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parliboy:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on April 29, 2025, 11:40:57 PM ---Mine doesn't have the knocker (I hate them), but it does have surround-sound feedback (one form of the haptic feedback you're talking about) so I let that handle the knocker effect.
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So you have one of your solenoids do double duty?
clemon79:
--- Quote from: parliboy on April 30, 2025, 08:33:06 AM ---So you have one of your solenoids do double duty?
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Nope, I only have solenoids for the flippers (and they are actually not even software-controlled; literally, you push the flipper button, it fires, period, unless you turn them off altogether with a hard switch I wired in a while ago). The rest of it is handled by four exciter and two bass shaker speakers mounted to the sidewalls and floor of the cabinet. They use the cabinet itself as resonating surfaces so what you hear, you also feel under your fingers. As such, the knocker sound is not NEARLY as loud, startling, or power-drawing as an actual knocker, and I am 100% fine with that on all three fronts. (This also means I can control the volume of it through software and play late at night and not wake people up. My rumble motor is also tuned down to tolerable-yet-effective levels.)
parliboy:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on April 30, 2025, 02:36:26 PM ---The rest of it is handled by four exciter and two bass shaker speakers mounted to the sidewalls and floor of the cabinet.
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Oh, you went the SSF route. Cool!
Neumms:
Ah, so you didn’t build your own Magnificent Marble Machine home game in your basement, but it’s still far beyond my capacity and looks very fun. Thanks for sharing it.
clemon79:
--- Quote from: parliboy on April 30, 2025, 05:23:55 PM ---Oh, you went the SSF route. Cool!
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God yes and I don't regret it for a second. There is NO and I mean NO way I could have shoehorned a proper matrix of solenoids in there PLUS have SSF for the ball rolling and other ambient sounds. So I figured I would use the savings to get the top-of-the-line exciters and see if I REALLY needed solenoids. Turns out really good SSF by itself is so good I was perfectly content with that.
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