IGT S+ Questions

[JWS]

Noobiest of Noobs here. I have a 1996 IGT S+ (Double Cherry Bar) machine. Fixed the code 12 error with a new battery. After multiple attempts was able to clear the 61 code. (push and hold the test until I got the ding and the 61-1 code then reset key) Next the DBV was not accepting bills. Found a Fiver stuck in the bill path. Cleared and cleaned.
Question # 1 The DBV-200-B023 is working but does not illuminate.
Question #2 I have a large number of credits and not alot of quarters, I am afraid to push the cash out button but want to clear it.
Question # 3 Can this machine use tokens by simply placing a token in the coin comparator? (Man cave ...for amusement only)
Thank you in advance....this site has helped me get this far a and I am very grateful.

[Badbaud]

A token will work but turn the sensitivity control fully counterclockwise.
Unless you have a clear chip you will have to cash out the credits one hand full at a time.
The lamps in the DBV bezel may be bad, probably #86 lamps.

[mvco]

You may have to use a set chip to set up the denomination for the bill acceptor to work.   Just a hunch.

[JWS]

Thank you all for the responces. Powered off the machine to check some other lamps and when I re-powered the DBV lamps were working. Now if the bill stacker will magically fill I will be really happy.

[erbs]

You can unplug one of the wires on the cash out so it wont work.

[rokgpsman]

.....Question #2 I have a large number of credits and not alot of quarters, I am afraid to push the cash out button but want to clear it.....

The machine is designed to not cheat the player, so once it accumulates credits they remain, you can't clear them out easily. If someone presses the Cashout button the hopper will start dispensing coins and if there aren't enough then the machine will fault with an error 3300. Then you take the coins from the coin tray and put them into the hopper, close the door and let it pay them out. Repeat over and over until the credits are removed. It's a pain. I don't know if doing a CLEAR ram process would eliminate the credits, it might. Also, if you prefer, you can set the machine so that winning spins do not add credits, the machine pays out the wins immediately from the hopper. But if you don't have a lot of coins in the hopper that may not work very well when you get a larger win.  You might be able to set the jackpot handpay setting low enough  to avoid running out of coins. With that the machine would halt on a bigger win, wouldn't add any credits or try to payout coins from the hopper, you just turn the jackpot reset key and pretend someone handed you the winnings.

[Badbaud]

Don't unplug one wire from the cashout, some switches are in series.
Simply pull the switch assembly out of the switch housing and let it dangle.

[Jim]

there are only two wires that go to that switch, one wire is the green wire( ground)  has two wires connected to the push on connector ( so even if the connector came off the switch  the ground loop will be in tact). the other wire is on the N.C. contact, it is a yellow-orange wire, you can remove this wire from the switch.  this will disable the switch from cashing out.

Jim

[erbs]

As Jim mentioned you can remove the yellow-orange wire with no problems. I have done this many times. The problem with pulling the switch down it may break depending on how brittle it is. You have to be very careful when pulling these down.

[rokgpsman]

.....Question #2 I have a large number of credits and not alot of quarters, I am afraid to push the cash out button but want to clear it......

Some folks have found the following to work if you want to remove the credits on the machine but don't have a Clear chip (or don't want to use one since you'll have to reset a bunch of other settings if you do a ram Clear).

Turn off machine power. Remove the cmos ram chip from its socket, place the chip on something metallic so that all the legs of the ram chip are shorted thru it to each other. You can use the unpainted metal shelf in the machine. (as mentioned in the discussion linked below this step to short all the ic legs to each other may not actually be needed but it doesn't hurt and is easy to do). Wait a few seconds, then reinstall the cmos ram chip. Power up the machine, it will give an error 61 that you clear (see the thread below for how to do this). All of the credits will be deleted from the machine. I haven't done this but experienced NLG members have (see below) and they say it works. It isn't difficult to try if you want to.

Below is a link to the middle of a discussion thread about it on the old NLG website. They were also talking about other stuff, so you may want to read thru the whole thing. This should work for you if you don't want to get rid of the excessive credits another way.

http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=18639.msg155044#msg155044