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Having proved all aspects of the machines operation I got stumbled with the refill key which I have learnt is only for tokens and it’s normally closed switch (unlike regular modern refill key switches). A big thanks to @riche100for all his downloads, can’t believe there was a hi-lights schematic. Also thanks to @sulzerned for photos he sent me Love this forum thank you! Here she is before new glass and all working 100% - you can see the nasty crack all the way across the glass, the mask is holding it atm!

The amount of highlights spotlights and all the conversions they became you could go up to and just press cancel and the right arrow nudge down button and it would step down was unreal!! it wasn’t uncommon to find one…you could credit them normally they’d pay out fine but seemed to be in test but with the back door on,now you could have played it cool and just nudged little wins and just a few nudges,but being 13/14 years old you just nudged jackpot in over and over!! And it wasn’t long before an attendant had you in a headlock and you were barred.😀

Hey Mart Good to chat the other night, well you catching it when it was just listed, AND being so close means it was meant to be 🙂👍 it's gone to the right person as will no doubt get some love back into restoring it. Think it's safe to say all of us on here we look forward to seeing the changes and updates 🙂

More luck than judgement Nick! It was on ebay and I just happened to look at the exact right time, unusual for me to be able to take a look so early in the afternoon!! I could not believe it was just listed AND it was local less than 10 mins from me so I messaged the seller and we struck a deal, I collected an hour later. Absolute perfection and sensible money/fair too for a change. My last fluke like this was Multiplay in Plymouth where, once again, right place right time on facebook marketplace and 30mins drive - who said lightening cant strike the same spot twice hehe 🍀 However ..... the replacement glass for my hi-lights is 5 hrs away but its a journey I have to make to sort this cracker out 😉 I hope to go grab it ASAP as this is one machine I am very keen to restore and add to the line up (not "the" Line-up, my line up lol). I'll post more as she progresses - its one of many machines now awaiting my attention I need to stop buying for a bit lol !!! still it will keep me busy in the winter eh!

Nope, no demos or tests pretty basic really. For testing you need the specific software which is in the downloads section but I think you have to modify the cart?

If you are planning on trying to fix the board, don't power it up.....

I got this yesterday too! (Sold with hi-lights he didn’t want to split them just wanted rid) I know absolutely nothing about this old classic other than it’s popularity. Board has battery damage and cab a bit battered but looks to be complete. Missing cancel button anyone got a spare they’d sell? Glass and reels look great. I’m sure I’ll have lots of questions and asks for help as it’s a tech I know nothing about. I’ve got lots to do lol…. !!!

Latest machine for my collection, very local so could not refuse it …… Long shot but anyone got or knows of a bottom glass for this beauty please drop me a PM 👍 thx 🙏

Take the flyer above and put in your drive, it ain't the best but is still information nonetheless.

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That’s debatable, but I thought so. So many gems from early to late 90’s. J

Three of the greatest machines to ever exist.

Cash bank is a brilliant machine .glad to own one and the jp tune is awesome.

Yeah cheers bob I learnt this with the schematic all became clear! You work a bit blind with these old machines just beeps and alarms no indication of what it’s upset about.

Something to look out for on these old techs is all the switches are break (except for the coins) and you can get some really wierd faults if a switch is open circuit.

Is this the correct button?

Thank you.

Thank you for the fantastic layouts.

Top quality machine .Well done for bagging it .

You've really made my night but you sure you don't deserve it Graham

Dreadful layout as always

Many thanks for this Clo.

Looks superb thanks for this one Clo06. Looks a decent machine a nice oldie to play.

I am, thanks for the tip - I hope to find someone willing to take it and repair so any volunteers let me know 😊 I know absolutely zero about it! Not sure in this one Jamie but thanks! Only had it cos it was part of the deal and he wouldn’t split em !

i know a guy who would have files, he can send to u via email. in box me...

That's very kind. I don't actually own the machine but I'm sure the owner will drop you a note if he needs anything. Cheers Bob

This is an interesting old tech and getting to be quite rare these days. Luckily manuals and schematics are available (in downloads) which makes things a whole lot easier. Before starting work on this tech I cut my teeth on the System 1000 which is very similar in construction. I've yet to document that one but one useful part of the project is that both techs can use the same tester I've built along with Bell Fruit Black Box. Here's a quick outline of all the cards and chassis..... I couldn't get hold of any 22 way molex connectors but luckily I had managed to get some 24 way ones from Digikey for the 1000 cards and had just enough spares to trim them down. Starting with the PSU card. They used a very odd arrangement of obtaining a 5v supply for the logic. The main supply (15v) is dropped to 10v and this is then used as the negative for the logic chips, the 15v rail then making the +5v, if that makes sense. I did read an article about the reason for doing it this way and at the time it was the standard way to do it. Wish I'd read that first as taking initial voltage readings was extremely confusing. The next cards are the CPU's. Two types have surfaced so far, C1 and issue 3. The first is the C1 variant and the next two issue 3's but some have only one ROM no RAM and no battery components. The CPU is the 4040 24 way chip so it's only a 4 bit device. The clock and RST is generated by the P4201 chip top left and these are prone to fail. Spares are non existent! Next is the I/O cards. Triac and transistor ouput. Lastly the input card. Most the I/O circuitry uses the same or similar format of ACE techs right through to System one so there's no head scratchers there. Of course things would be too easy if there weren't any any at all and lo and behold we come to the reel deck. There's no documentation on this so it had to be worked out from the physical deck. The principle used is similar to the old mechanical Bell Fruit decks with studs and wipers except they took a leap into technology and made it all electrical. Basically the reel has 20 positions with various slots cut into an attached sensor wheel. This then has 5 LED sensors to report the wheel position back to the program. Considering the motor arrangement is similar to the Bell Fruit it's quite clever how it works. There are slots cut in the outside of the sensor wheel which locks/stops the reel when its associated solenoid is released. It didn't take too long to sus out that the 5 sensors are used to translate the reel position into binary. As I didn't have a reel deck I needed to be able to create one in software on my Arduino. The basic code has been written but not tried as yet due to PSU issues with the test rig but hopefully this won't take too long to resolve. My understanding is the reel sensors are read at every position due to the slots ( 1 per position) on the outside circumference of the sensor wheel. When the program knows it's at the correct position it releases the solenoid to stop the reel. Any old hands out there, please feel free to educate me if this isn't correct or you'd like to add anything. So far I've managed to get all the CPU's to run and a couple of PSU's. No I/O cards have yet been worked on as the PSU supply from my test rig doesn't have enough power to run them and a larger transformer is needed. Once sorted I'll update this thread, hopefully with a working system.