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Lumberjack93:

--- Quote from: Tilt on November 10, 2019, 05:51:18 PM ---You can turn them all off at one time with the surge protector power switch, it won't hurt anything.  Some machines do have things that are still powered with the machine internal power switch turned off.  Usually comm circuits and convenience lights/outlets.

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Tilt, thanks for the reply.  I've always wondered about this.


LJ93

Mechanic Jeff:
Interesting conversation. As a slot tech in a casino, of course we leave the machines on 24/7. However, when an event happens (power outage, lightning strike, faulty power strip, covid) we cringe.  Chances of all the machines coming back up are 50/50. Take for instance the covid shut down. 2 weeks before re-opening we fired up the slots, most of which had been put to sleep instead of shutting off. Out of 1200 machines, about 25% had issues, blown monitors, power supplys, etc. I dont even want to think what would have happened if all were shut down. What I find interesting is that although this is common for casino's, it is not for the home slots. I've met several people with a slot machine or 2 in their house and they all shut them off daily without any issue. Any idea's why this is? does it have anything to do with the amount of voltage going thru the systems on re-start?  :Scratch-Head:

Retro tech repair:

--- Quote from: Mechanic Jeff on August 25, 2020, 05:13:00 PM ---Interesting conversation. As a slot tech in a casino, of course we leave the machines on 24/7. However, when an event happens (power outage, lightning strike, faulty power strip, covid) we cringe.  Chances of all the machines coming back up are 50/50. Take for instance the covid shut down. 2 weeks before re-opening we fired up the slots, most of which had been put to sleep instead of shutting off. Out of 1200 machines, about 25% had issues, blown monitors, power supplys, etc. I dont even want to think what would have happened if all were shut down. What I find interesting is that although this is common for casino's, it is not for the home slots. I've met several people with a slot machine or 2 in their house and they all shut them off daily without any issue. Any idea's why this is? does it have anything to do with the amount of voltage going thru the systems on re-start?  :Scratch-Head:

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I used to do electronics repair for a living and I would get customers come in all the time “I leave my tv on 24/7 because i need the sound to sleep. I turned it of once and it broke so turning it off must have killed it”. No in ever one of these cases the tv had bad capacitors in the power supply. Im not an expert on capacitors but my thought was being on 24/7 made the capacitors break down faster causing them to become out of speck. As long as it was on it was fine because the capacitors stayed charged. as soon as it was shut off and they drained they could not re change to there full capacity. Again im not an expert this is just an observation of what i and the owner of that company saw on a frequent bases.

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