Jonbazookaboz
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Does anyone know what the glass angle would be if the playfield is set to 6.5 degree angle? Using pinguy
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Godzilla glass angle if playfield is set to 6.5?
- Thread starter Jonbazookaboz
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I can tell you what mine is tomorrow but as long as it's level side to side I've found adjusting it to how I like it is better than rigidly sticking to 6.5° for the playfield.
Strangely on mine I've got both front and back leg levellers screwed in all the way (so the Pin is as low to the ground as it can be) to get the bubble in the middle. My phone was just shy of 6.5° but I don't trust it completely as the camera sticks out a bit.
On previous Pins I've always had to have the back legs up a little bit to get 6.5°.
Can't you slide the glass out a little to put your phone on the playfield?
Strangely on mine I've got both front and back leg levellers screwed in all the way (so the Pin is as low to the ground as it can be) to get the bubble in the middle. My phone was just shy of 6.5° but I don't trust it completely as the camera sticks out a bit.
On previous Pins I've always had to have the back legs up a little bit to get 6.5°.
Can't you slide the glass out a little to put your phone on the playfield?
Jonbazookaboz
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I did measure the playfield there. Set the pinguy to 6.5. Playfield was saying ‘perfect’’. Glass is about 15 just wondered if that is usually such a big difference
Just seemed like it was playing really fast. Godzilla draining me more than I expected!!!
At 6.5° (based on what my phone said) mine felt slow and floaty which is why I don't really trust what it said. I levelled it based on the bubble being dead centre and it plays a lot better.
I was using the Pinball Leveller app and had calibrated it
I was using the Pinball Leveller app and had calibrated it
I got a new digital level box to measure accurately rather than using my phone, Godzilla glass on mine is 14.6 degrees.
Drew Taylor
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Which one did you get, @Marvello?
Problem is, each new iPhone has a different camera bulge which changes the angle of the phone at rest, the new 15 Pro Max shows about 1.5 degrees 'flat'
If you look on Amazon you'll see there are loads of them. I went with the one below based on number of reviews and it was on sale at £14.
I had a similar one before but my elderly cat (RIP Ziggy
) peed in my toolbox so it was never the same after that, plus it used a button cell battery which used to drain when it was stored.
The calibration accounts for this. It measures once then again after rotating 180 degrees - it then knows where ‘level’ is and works perfectly.
Jonbazookaboz
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Cheers for that. I get 15 with my phone. So not far off
I know that's the theory but it doesn't work with the irregular shape of the new iPhone, only two corners are actually touching the surface due to the camera shape - top right and bot left, so it is unstable, if you press down on bot right or top left corner it moves so the plane of 'flat' is diagonal and not vertical, hence the weird readings.
I can calibrate and stick it on a flat surface and still end up with 0.5deg readings if aligned perfectly. When used on a playfield which has small bumps of inserts/mylar etc it'll read up to 1.5 degrees out at times so I've stopped trying to use it
, shame but plenty of other options out there.