Maygay Inferno, help needed!!!

tgmnewry · Post by **tgmnewry** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:40 pm

I bought my Maygay inferno for £20!!
This machine was dead. Had sat a couple of years unused. Managed to find a blown resistor in the power supply. Repaired that and got power, however with alarm and various reel error messages. This has the MA1 board and of course the corroded battery! The chips and other components seem OK, however the printed circuit tracks below the battery had corroded enough to go open circuit.
I have tried bridging what I can see 4 damaged tracks, its a temporary repair using fuse-wire, probably not ideal as one repair is soldered to the side of a chip. This machine now powers, takes cash but aaaaggggghhh after all my work the start button doesn't work!!!!! Am I missing something??? Has anyone any experience of what fault on the board would cause this? Is there an easier way of bridging the damaged tracks, ie simpler parts of the board to solder than the obvious???
Any help would be appreciated!!!! I will fill this with coins all night and let you play free if it works lol!!
I have a pic of the messy repair!!

JG · Post by JG » Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:21 pm

I'd imagine that would be more of an issue with the button itself as a pose to Heath Robinson circuitry. Troubleshooting does it 'click' the same as the other buttons when pressed?

tgmnewry · Post by **tgmnewry** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 10:45 am

JG wrote:I'd imagine that would be more of an issue with the button itself as a pose to Heath Robinson circuitry. Troubleshooting does it 'click' the same as the other buttons when pressed?

Hi It clicks the same, and flashes when coins are added, have seen a post with another machine that had a faulty board caused this. I did strip out the reels and check connections but no joy!!

buzzer · Post by **buzzer** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:04 pm

do the other buttons work?

i very much doubt a board falt would cause one button to fail

the wires for the switches are crimped into the connectors that go on the switches, these connections are known to fail..

or swop the start switch with another switch to rule out a faulty switch..

tgmnewry · Post by **tgmnewry** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:02 am

buzzer wrote:do the other buttons work?

i very much doubt a board falt would cause one button to fail

the wires for the switches are crimped into the connectors that go on the switches, these connections are known to fail..

or swop the start switch with another switch to rule out a faulty switch..

I will have a go today, will swop the start and cancel buttons and see what happens!!!