Adjusting coil strength should be possible for all coils via the setup menu.

[Lamoraldus]

Adjusting coil strength should be possible for all coils via the setup menu.

I found power_setting_name in the flippers section. It’s used in flippers.py to adjust the flipper’s pulse_ms.
Couldn’t find an equivalent for other coils. I think the user should be able to modify those values.

I propose to add optional adjustments that default to 1.0 if omitted. Either a single value under the power_setting_name key for each coil in the coils section (instead of the flippers section) or a finer grained set like pulse_ms_adjustment_name, pulse_power_adjustment_name, hold_ms_adjustment_name, hold_power_adjustment_name.

[bosh]

Many platforms already support various pulse ms and pulse power settings on coils, and coil_player supports player-specific values for more complex behaviors. For most of these properties you can use settings and then manually tweak the values in the service menu. It's not clear to me - what are you proposing that is different than these?

[Lamoraldus]

I do know that there are values for ms and power for the platforms.
I don’t use coil_player for vuks, slings, plunger, eject and other coils. I stick to the default mechanisms of autofire_coils, flippers, drop_targets, diverters and ball_devices.

I have slingshots and pop bumpers that have hardware rules. I want the user to be able to change the strength of those by a percentage.

Can I use a setting in my hardware config file for the sling_right_ms_setting and sling_right_power_setting values like this?

  c_slingshot_right:
    number: "06-02"
    default_pulse_ms: sling_right_ms_setting
    default_pulse_power: sling_right_power_setting
    default_recycle: true

That would be half way to what I want.

The user should be able to select a value between +50% and -50% to change ms/power in a game through settings. This is what the power_setting_name seems to do for flippers. I am wondering why this is flipper specific and is not available for all coils.

[bosh]

Gotcha, I hadn't actually run into that power setting option before. In general you can make settings entries for a lot of coil properties, but you have to tie them in manually to each coil definition. The docs don't have a good example of this use case, but you can look at my game config for the setting and then the use of the setting. (As well, note per line 28 that coil::default_hold_power does not currently support using a setting for its value).

Re: allowing the user a specific choice, FAST (and likely the other controllers) only support certain PWM duty cycles -- in FAST's case it is multiples of 1/8, so the user can never actually choose a specific % power, only what the hardware actually supports (or it will just get rounded). https://fastpinball.com/fast-serial-protocol/net/drivers/?h=pwm#entering-pwm-values