Bally 804H slot does not pay out

[PatrickLewis.net]

I have the machine working to the point of taking coins, registering the coin, spinning the wheels.  The machine will not payout, but seems to give extra free spins.

The bell does not sound and hopper does not spin.  I confirmed the payout relay does work by jumping the relay from a hot wire.  I have made a color version of the wiring.  I can find where most of the items are in the schematic, but where are the wheel mechs?  I see an A, B, C, and D, but there are only 3 reels.

It must be something between the Grey/yellow wire and the yellow wire, correct?

[wolftalk]

the A-D reel mech switches are on the left side of the reel mech.

the reels themselves are the three now very colorful boxes on the right of the schematic :-)

you want a closed circuit path from grey wire 90 through that maze then thru the payout counter disc on the bottom right to the grey-yellow wire 93 you mentioned.

usual problems for no payouts for any win when the payout relay is working are:
1] payout counter not reset (wipers at the bottom/6:00 position)
2] cruddy payout counter disc
3] badly misaligned reel wipers and/or really cruddy reel wiper contact plates

the game isn't supposed to give free spins, so it's likely you have some modifications in there if the number of spins is proportional to the payouts and it stops giving free spins after X number of pulls.

if you have high resolutions pics of the game that are too large to post here, please email to slotpics@cdyn.com - especially the hopper/payout disc (wiper and ratchet side).

what's supposed to happen is a win creates a closed path from grey wire 90 thru the reel wipers to the correct payout trace on the payout counter disc.  The payout counter disc wipers connect the trace to the payout relay via the grey-yellow (93) wire you mentioned, and as coin are ejected the payout counter wipers step/rotate until they step off the end of the active trace, at which time the payout relay loses power and the pay is ended.

[PatrickLewis.net]

Here are 5 pics of the side of the reels.  There is a loose wire (brown with yellow stripe).

I noticed that the free replay does not seem to match with a payout.  I had a cherry and two other items.  This should have paid 2, but did nothing.  no free spin either.