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[youbrokeit]

Hi all,

Just taken receipt of a nice RED MPU5 low-tech for fun...

There seems to be a problem with the diverter on the coin mech (C435A)

In 'normal' mode, £1 coins divert to the back cashbox, in 'divert' mode,
they go to the 'front' cashbox.

It seems the little 'left-right' flap, which pushes the coin in either
direction isn't operating. I could do with the pinouts etc, so I can
check the operation of the diverter if anyone can help? Or shed any
light on the situation for me?

(I'm using the test routines to operate the divert btw)

Cheers!!

[pricey2007]

Have you tried using a cashflow 126 dfx mech in it??? also what machince is it and are use using correct routing plugs???

Edited by pricey2007, 19 April 2010 - 01:39 PM.

[youbrokeit]

Have you tried using a cashflow 126 dfx mech in it??? also what machince is it and are use using correct routing plugs???

Hi Pricey

I don't have anything other than what I have - and helpfully, none of it is labelled. It has *a* routing plug, which may or may not be the right one, and I have a choice of two 'divert override' plugs, each with a single white wire. One is to the pin furthest from the 'key' - the other, the second furthest.

The machine is a RED Gaming DEMON STREAK LowTech, in a front-opening, side-hinged cabinet, with a domed top - I hope you know the one I mean!

Update: I've just looked at the behaviour of 10p coins (I didn't have any at previous tests!) and they divert 'front right', so the flappy thing works, it must be the routing plug.

So, what I really need is:


Front Left - 10p to cashbox
Rear Left - £1 to cashbox
REAR RIGHT - £1 to hopper

Front/Rear/Left/Right are in relation to the front of the machine. i.e. the £1 hopper 'slot' is the furthest from the player, on the right.

Can anyone help me with a routing plug, or to rewire the existing?

Thanks!

another update....

I swapped the mech with the mech from my other machine - can't remember what's what, but it's from an EPOCH / MayGay machine, and that mech works - and diverts fine. So I thought my existing mech was faulty. I put the 'faulty' mech into my other machine, and it's working fine, diverting fine. How weird is that!

Edited by youbrokeit, 19 April 2010 - 08:40 PM.

[skabaz]

sounds like your white sorter lead wasn't fully pushed in or the routing plug was maybe missing a couple of pins.

baz

[youbrokeit]

Could be, Baz.

Putting my DemonStreak mech into my Club Fruit'n'Nudge, I didn't even connect the white override cable, and it's working fine. I guess the EPOCH controls the divert in a different way to the MPU5. It's been a long time since I had an MPU, and then it was a great ol' Rocky Horror MPU4 (if I remember rightly!)

[roderz]

When you swapped it into the other machine and it worked - did you also change the routing plug.

Sound like you got the wrong routing plug in the red

[roderz]

Would this help??

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[youbrokeit]

That's the strange thing... I didn't change any routing plugs.

The one that was originally in the RED had a few jumpers, and not much else.
The one that was originally in the EPOCH was almost full of jumpers, and it
looked like there might have been some diodes or resistors too - I didn't
look THAT closely.

Routing Plug = double row plug with jumpered pairs?
Override Plug= single or two wires on a single row?

Just to make sure I have the right terminology.

At least it all works fine NOW - that's the main thing.

[roderz]

Well that's weird as most 'modern' epoch machine only have 2 link wires in the routing plug (I'm assuming single hopper payout here)

BUT as they say - if ain't broke don't fix it.