Fruit Machine Chat

Hi all

I mentioned in my previous thread that my fruit machine (barcrest Pacman power up) was putting pound coins into the bottom tub even though the hopper was no where near full. I was unsure on how to correct this and after playing about this is what i did.

I attached 2 fobs to the sensors and activated hopper dump, i then pressed the start button and it emptied out the cash from the hopper. It said something like 211 short, something like that.

I then thought i just had to use the refill key and put it all back in, but when i touched the refil fob it started at 211 so when i was putting coins in it was going down to 210 209 etc.

so i did hopper dump again, and again it said i was short, this time i did another hopper dump so it said i was short by 250 then when i refilled it counted down from 250 to about 135 so i knew i had put 115 in the hopper.

Does this sound right or should it have been counting up when i used refill?

I am not sure if i have done this right or not?

Chris

it will count down when your filling refil key.

it must have a 250 float, dump the hopper , chuck £250 coins in the hopper and hit the hopper top up sensor (the dongle should be on a chain near the coin mech)

I don't have 250 to put in, so if it counts down then I guess it's working OK now and will now only overflow when there is more than 250 In the hopper?

yes it will divert to cashbox when full

Thanks so just so I know for future if hopper goes out of synch with dumping etc is it best to dump hopper twice does this reset it to zero?

As when I first dumped hopper it said I was short by 211 so I started filling it and expected it to start at 250 but it didn't. Only when I dumped it twice in succession it went to 250 short

yes, if you dump an empty hopper, the machine will start from a zero float and fill hopper first.

buzzer wrote:yes, if you dump an empty hopper, the machine will start from a zero float and fill hopper first.

Cheers mate!

Does the top door have to be open to activate this dump hopper feature?

yes, door has to be open, refil key turned