Broken IGT s2000 Wheel of Fortune WOF - owner heard a "pop"

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I really wanted to share this story, since its still ongoing a bit.  You all have been a great help, and obviously more information about machines that we all have, the better.  I lucked upon this machine.  I was shopping on offerup, when I saw a cool machine and checked out the pics.  He wanted too much for it, but I saw on the side of the machine, he had a WOF that upon zoom in looked to be in working condition!  I asked if he still had it, and if he ever considered selling it.  He said it was broken...my heart skipped a beat.


This last few months, I've been buying up broken slots, fixing them, selling them.  He said he turned it on and heard a pop, but the lights still powered on.  He was very stuck on a very high number for me, but I went for it.  I came home with the WOF and the Munny.  Slowly took it apart a bit, definitely had a popped fuse in the base Power Supply.  Popped in a new one, and it popped immediately.  So I systematically removed plugs, changed the fuse, pop pop pop.  The top box PS's fuse was still good btw.  I went through 5 plugs (mind you, I picked this up late at night, and I couldn't stop).  Finally stopped for the night, came back the next day. 


At this point, I had messed with the Munny s2000 IGT and could get it to a semi-playable condition (just no bonus game).  After having a few drinks, I thought, hey, maybe I can try this Power Supply in the Munny machine.  I looked at the plug, the Munny PS had more legs, but I figured if I got any power and no fuse pop, than I had an issue with something inside the WOF.  So I turned the Munny on with the WOF PS, and it started throwing sparks from the PS!  A nice burnt smell wafted up.  Took the WOF PS apart, the fuse was still in tact, was strange, one of the parts had burnt marks (not sure what it is).  But at this point, I figured maybe it was just the power supply that was internally bad!?!?


So I popped in the Munny PS into the WOF.  WORKS!  So it was just a failed power supply, already ordered a new one.  Its in decent cosmetic condition, tag on the outside of the cabinet is removed.  Some of the glass and other stuff shows its from mid 90s, which is almost perfect for me.  It all functionally works perfect, lights up nice, the spin wheel plays correctly, BV and ticket printer are good.  Unfortunately the silver wings have scuff marks on them, and someone overtightened a screw and cracked one.  The only thing that's lame is its coinless atm.  I've kinda asked this in the other topic, but now that the WOF is fixed, I'd like to ask a question on from going coinless to coin.


I have the IGT hopper bracket with beau plug.  If I just slid in a hopper would it just "know" to cash out coins or tickets?  Or is there a keychip I need to do, a netplex autoconfigure I need to do?


Same question for the Coin mechanism.  I have 0 HW for the coin setup.  I need to pop up the metal plate, and I need all of the brackets and HW for the coins.  I have the receptor plug for where you'd connect the coin acceptor, but can I just literally buy the HW and plug it in and it'll just know to accept it?  Clearly its setup for $1, I'll probably keep that anyways, since that's way better than quarters.  Basically if possible, I'd like to just add hardware, plug it in, and not have to mess with keychipping anything.  Thoughts?


I can't wait to win the Million Dollars!!!

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Btw of anyone is curious, I can take pics of specific parts inside and post them

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