Leaderboard

When is a 0.1uF capacitor not a capacitor? When it's a 20 Ohm resistor!! This has been an absolute swine to find. The resistance was across the 5v rail and you would have thought something would have heated up enough to be able to detect it by touch, but no! Testing across the 5v should be 300-600 Ohms on a good day and I wasn't looking forward to this one. Most of the IC's have the 5v rail along with all of the decoupling 0.1uF caps and plenty of tants. I had already removed/replaced most of the logic chips below the battery but I shall come back to that one another time. The only way of finding this type of fault is to break the tracks in the 5v supply, isolating parts of the board as you go. When I eventually got to the line of chips that was suspect I knew it had to be a cap as all the IC's had already been replaced. There were 4 in the run so I swapped them all even though the others tested OK. I need a glass of wine (or three) after that one.

Hi guys I’m on the lookout for a barcrest club pontoon fruit machine any help is very much appreciated thanks.

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Turned on. Dead. Replaced board. Fired up. Rifas smoked away outside garage then sat stable. Lights turned off after a few seconds of running so at that point I stripped it down and started work on paint etc. will rebuild and test after it’s clean :)

Wow! Now that does really look fantastic. I remember playing this back in the day. Dont think anyone knew the reel order on this one! Spellbound was,another one of these. Here's a video of Spellbound I played at Neweys a few years ago. Ha she was very tight...just like I remember it lol.

Wow!!!!! thanks for this , it looks brilliant.

work now fully underway,been stripping bits out.Got carriage out,side pannel to reveal amps and speaker,now im attempting front pannel and main chassis.Then ive got fun of removing 80 select pins,fitting o rings then cleaning and refitting.

5 minute job then Rob😁😁😁 Nick would do it in 3 😄😂😄😃🤣😂😁

Love Win A Gain brilliant machine hope you get it running again soon I'm nearly there, have the top and bottom glass and holders, just only missing the frame, bands, reels, coin mecs, tubes, solinoids, looms, switches, buttons, cabinet, psu, mpu3 and games card, other than that I'm nearly there! 😆

Bargain! I would Nice machine and the board can be repaired too. If its in a nice condition go for it! In parts it's worth it too, but no one really wants to see a machine stripped for parts

I posted this some years back... https://www.fruitemu.co.uk/ib/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&controller=topic&id=16098&tab=comments#comment-257894