:applause: :applause: IT'S WORKING :applause: :applause:
The following is a detailed report from Ceasar, the new owner of my Mills M head. I just cut and pasted the texts in order of when I got them, as he figured it out.
Hopefully, he'll chime in soon to introduce himself. Please welcome him to NLG.
From Ceasar:
The issue is in the hopper, I swapped in my 25cent hopper from other machine and it pays correctly. Now to find the glitch.
Got the hopper working. The counting switch was the issue. It should be normally open, but a wire was transposed to normally closed so the top counters were confused. Had to check my 25 cent hopper circuit to figure it out as it worked in the 5 cent machine.
I took pics of what needs to be looked at on these hoppers and the two tools that one should have to check em:
Top one is a battery powered fuse tester. With no coins in hopper, the two prongs should show closed circuit, which will power hopper up to get coins up the disk once a JP is hit. The other is a lamp cord with crimped on connectors. You push em on the pins that are oriented like a wall plug and then plug the plug into an outlet. That'll power up the hopper. If it runs, the motor and wiring is good.
On the backside of hopper, these 2 bolts allow for adjustment of the roller that triggers the micro switch:
The switch must be wired so to be in the "normally closed" position with NO coin under the roller. This is correct wiring position (looking up from bottom of hopper):
Lastly, when the counters up top hit the right number for payout number, it will stop the hopper with a coin in this position under roller:
The counters kill the power to the hopper and the micro switch is in the open position here, so that when the next hopper payout comes up, the upper circuits close and complete the circuit to the hopper motor starting the payout and when the coin in pic moves past roller, the micro switch closes and sends a charge to the counters that a coin has been paid out.