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When I worked at Bell Fruit Manufacturing, My depot was at Westerhope in the West end of Newcastle. Apart from a service contract to look after a few one arm machines in bingo halls, Every machine both in manufacture and on site operations were electro mechanical. No merging or takeovers from other companies, no other manufacturers machines like juke boxes pool tables or video games to look after. Only BFs own manufactured fruits. Obsolete, badly damaged and scrap machines were returned to Nottingham. Working in workshops until I passed my grade 4 then just one week later I arrived one morning not to work in workshops but taken to the stores where I was handed two bespoke wooden spares boxes containing a good selection of electro spare parts then shown outside to take possession of a new mk1 white Escort van ( all service vans including installation transits were white and only the large vans were sign written). In the van was the first time I had ever seen a two way radio never mind used one but after some good instruction soon got the hang of taking the service calls. On returning to depot you handed the spares boxes over to stores where they would replenish all the used parts and ready for you to pick up again on your way out. I was to cover area engineers sickness and holidays until assigned my own area so got to see the whole North East operation. Not including the bingo contract along with sited club machines, the AWP machines were sited in Brewery managed sites, brewery tenanted and free trade. All rented no sales.

Thought it was about time I updated this as things have moved on considerably. I now have the rig working after sorting out many silly cock ups on my part such as the wrong 7 segment displays (should be common cathode) and getting the digits and segments back to front because I assumed it was common anode. I'm at the stage now of being able to run nearly all of the self tests after working out the switch matrix which I think is correct. The problem I'm now battling with is on boot up with no switches operated (ie door closed) I get a bleep, the flashing version number, the reels index and then the version number stays on solid but nothing else? Operating what should be the door switch does nothing, however grounding Switch Return 2 (SR2) and then doing a power cycle it does the same as before but then one of the triacs operates, 50 displays in the credits and then all test functions can be accessed via the hold switches. It gets a bit techy from here on so apologies for boring anyone. The way this works (please feel free to correct me) is pulses with different time slots are applied to SR2 depending on what switches are operated and so far it doesn't matter which Switch Feed (SF 1-8) I connect, none of them appear to do anything although the waveforms are present. The next thing I discovered was once it was in test mode, with SR2 grounded, disconnecting it would bring up an alarm and no other switches would have any effect. Grounding again and all test modes were accessable. There was no reboot? So I realise that grounding this pin effectively enables all the timeslots which is why it goes into 'door open' and 'test mode' as they both share SR2. I've also discovered that in test mode the start switch cycles through the coin level switches and they all show 'low' (they use SR2 as well). If the display is showing this, disconnecting the ground the display changes to 'high' so I'm sure my understanding is correct. I can't help think I'm missing something silly here like a liink that needs to be made somewhere that I'm not aware of (Sys80 switch 5 springs to mind) but I've tried all the switch feeds to all the switch returns in all combinations and it won't do anything in normal mode other than previously stated? Is it a board fault, well that's possible except I have two boards, one a PC92 and the other a PC plus (both repaired by me) and they both behave exactly the same. One is running 777 heaven and the other Reflex so there's nothing common there either. Anyone care to put me out of my misery.

SA4-230 works fine in my blue DIG.B card, boots just fine, no ram clear (except for the first time of powering up which is to be expected) so must be your program card or perhaps the rom, can't speculate further at this point

You should be ok as most of the time these machines are switched off because they don't work

I knew of one in Poole and pewsey.

Yes

Bell Fruit were operators, nationally. They had several branches around the country and I worked at Birmingham - later Bilston. All we did was repair faulty machines, black boxes, etc. We also prepared new machines - our own, as well as other manufacturers: JPM, Barcrest, Maygay, etc - which were going out to pubs. There were six guys with three Transit vans, each taking about ten machines each day, as well as videos, Juke boxes and the occasional pool table. The best pubs, in terms of takings, would get the new machines. The old machines would come back to base to be refurbed and sent out to other pubs, the oldest would be scrapped.

A few beautiful machines you have bagged there! I can imagine that the wallet is now somewhat lighter 😂

Yes sure is a few pure classic you have pocketed there .. snappy and hyper very easy to back convert... Ex un very nice got to be buy far the most sort after machine with nice glass looking very nice👍

DIG.A and B cards

there is a blue digital sound card, gal marked DIG.B A green FM and digital sound card, Gal marked DIG.A A green sound card, gal marked ESP and then there is another 2 I know of which are smaller and different but cannot remember if they have sound on them or if they used the onboard the M1 board sound as were early versions of the program cards

Yeah buddy.

I have downloaded that version (but not the sound rom as cant find that) so will try that sa4-230 in my spare digi board

Is that a real Hyper Viper or a snappy re-glass ? all superb machines regardless, must have cost you a packet :-0

If you have no luck and want to stand the postage both ways I can test it and sort out the GAL chip if it is problems, but I do work and don't feel like doing much in the evenings so likely to be a weekend before I sort it

Most likely the DIG.B pal chip has bit the dust in some way, I have definitely had these go and there in my duff pile

I’ll check my spare parts but don’t think I have a blue one, I did have one but sent it to a mate and it turned out to be faulty. Either that or gamerom was faulty.

Done!

As promised card cash v1.0.bin I also banged in Pooks layout, thanks for the WDX Dave! cardcashwdx v1.0.zip