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**Video Poker, Keno, Slots, 21** Gaming machines => IGT Fortune 1 Sircoma/Poker => Topic started by: Retro tech repair on July 15, 2021, 07:14:08 AM

Title: Wont take coin
Post by: Retro tech repair on July 15, 2021, 07:14:08 AM

I get blinking lights when you move the coin switch but it doesn’t register coin in there are no errors it just asks for coin. The battery is dead but I don’t get a battery low error. I have a new battery supposed to get here today.

Title: Re: Wont take coin
Post by: shortrackskater on July 15, 2021, 08:29:19 AM

Does the coin still drop in the hopper?
Have you checked the entire pathway from coin mechanism to the switch?

Title: Re: Wont take coin
Post by: Badbaud on July 15, 2021, 08:43:41 AM

If you have a non credit game you don't need the battery.
If you have a credit game the battery is used to store your credits when power is off.
The battery is not monitored by the computer chip.
The game, credit or non-credit, will work fine without a battery.

Attached shows what lights turn on for each switch activation.

Title: Re: Wont take coin
Post by: Retro tech repair on July 15, 2021, 09:03:06 AM

I only ever get 1 and 4. I tried swapping the board out of a different game. Is there any menu for these machines?

Title: Re: Wont take coin
Post by: Badbaud on July 15, 2021, 12:47:41 PM

Menu??
Ha Ha Ha there ain't no stinking menus.

The software was written onto 10" floppy disks then manually entered into the chip programmer byte by byte.
The game and graphics EPROM's are the original tri-voltage kind and require +5, -5, and +12V DC to work.