General reel tilt on S2000

[satelliteman]

My brother-in-law has (2) S2000 slots which see very little use.  Recently, we powered up the machines & got the "Call Attendant", low battery message on both machines.  I pulled the boards & checked battery voltages, one was completely dead & the other showed .6 volts.
I replaced the coin batteries using the removable type holders.  While I had the boards out, I removed the green batteries on both boards.  One of the batteries was just beginning to show signs of corrosion but no damage to board. Proceeded to re-install the board on the 1st machine and, after clearing of number of error messages, the machine came up ready to play.  Inserted a bill & got 20 credits.  Pressed the credits button, then spin, & all seemed well.  On the next play the machine tilted out displaying "General Reel Tilt".  Reset the machine, tried again & had the same result.  Can't get the machine to stop tilting out.  Tried disconnecting & re-connecting the reel bundle harness a number of times with no change.  Tried re-seating the main board too, no change.  So, getting frustrated, I decided to try the other machine, hoping for a better result.  SAME situation on that machine!  Am I not doing something correctly? What do I try next?

[qbert]

Are your door optics properly lined up?
Make sure the door latch is completely down.

You may also try and see if lifting the door handle by 1/8 of an inch changes the fault issues.

[satelliteman]

I considered the door optics briefly, but didn't follow up on it.  I'll check into that the next time I'm at my brother-in-law's house.  Now that you mention it, I seem to remember some issue with the door optics when he 1st bought those machines.  Thanks for the tip.

[ianmcneil68]

  I agree with Rich. Every gen reel tilt I've had came back to the optics or damaged tracings. Since your tracings are good, I'll bet that's the culprit.

[shortrackskater]

Are the reels fully seated?