Leaderboard

Sorted!! What a relief that was, it's been driving me nuts. It was something silly in the end which I would have sussed a lot earlier if I had a reel deck. The fact was everything was working fine and with a real reel deck I would have never hit this issue. Basically because the LED's were flashing on my Arduino I assumed the pulses were getting to the sensor inputs. What I didn't check was that the inputs were being permanently held down so the software must have thought the reels were stuck and wouldn't continue. No error messages or alarms though? This also explained why the door switch didn't do anything. When switched on with both door switch and test switch it obviously didn't care about the reels and booted fully which is why the door switch was then able to reset the machine. This wasn't the whole story though.... Once I sorted the state of the outputs to the sensor it still didn't work but I wondered whether the pulse widths were too narrow. Slowing down the Arduino a tad and everything burst into life. Again thanks to all who made suggestions, even if it was to jump in the Thames.

Welcome! Just bought a machine then?

Another mps up and going got the power supply sorted and the mech etc, many thanks to the wizard Louie Bee for sorting the mps 2 board 👍. This plays as I remember it, terrible lol you can get a hold on the jackpot but as I said to Steve Lancett the nudge gamble is a slap in the face lol.

Thanks ben,it is one of 2 on my final list