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[jemdna]

Hey everyone quick question, does anyone know how to set this machine on freeplay?

Cheers

[jemdna]

Also the coin mech seems to dump all money to the bottom of the machine and not the hoppers(?) any suggestions?

Cheers once again guys, I genuinely love this forum

[jemdna]

Cheers bud as I said I have very little money but I still brought a donation thing for this website as it already has been a valuable source of info

So happy with this machine, already enjoying it, just wish the machine would fill properly to allow payouts

[DJDONKEY]

In the back of the machine there should be a small black button on a bracket. With the machine on, you press once for freeplay, twice for test mode (or it could be other way round!)
In freeplay, you only get a certain number of credits (usually 20) and with most barcrest clubbers you can step the reels to wherever you want.
As for the coins, you need to post a pic of the coin mech, it is probably missing the routing plug or it is wired incorrectly. The routing plug, tells the coin sorter where to send the coins, without one, all coins go to "exit A" which is down to the collection boxes.

[jemdna]

Ok cheers for the reply, i have found the button I will now post a picture of the mech to see if you can work it out, there are 4 wires that have been clearly cut and put together if that helps?

Also the machine now complains it needs refilling, can i bypass that or do i genuinely need to refill the hoppers?

[jemdna]

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[chasnbons]

Is it a Mars ME126?

If so (actually whatever it is, it looks very ropey). where does the black wire go, that looks like it's going back towards the top of it?

There should just be wires (the joined ones, which look like they need replacing tbh) with each end fastened into the routing plug.

This tells the mech where to send the coins ie hopper, tubes cashbox etc.

You'll need to work out which coin you want to go where and then wire the plug accordingly.

This might be useful to you

 field engineers manual ms100 series.zip   2.63MB   9 downloads

As for refilling, you can either refill manually with refill key turned, or there might be a 'hopper topup' switch, presuming it has a hopper seeing as you said hoppers, or if it's tubes you could just stick correct coins in correct tubes enough to activate the tube level switch which is fastened towards the lower end of each tube, or just move the sensor so that it's permanently activated.

Hope some of this helps you

Sorry forgot to say, whatever you decide to do with the routing plug, some electrical tape round each seperate wire to cover the joins, wouldn't go amiss

[jemdna]

Hey

Firstly yes your right its not hoppers its tubes, there are 3 spring loaded switches (one on each tube)... so I just need to fasten them back making a permanent contact?

The black wires come and go back to the coin mech with 4 wires. Ill take a look at the manual and see what I can come up with

[jemdna]

THis is helping as well, thought I would chuck this up for other users as well...

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[chasnbons]

Hey

Firstly yes your right its not hoppers its tubes, there are 3 spring loaded switches (one on each tube)... so I just need to fasten them back making a permanent contact?


Yes so the machine thinks there's more coins in than there actually is

The black wires come and go back to the coin mech with 4 wires. Ill take a look at the manual and see what I can come up with

Yes I can see now that it doubles back on itself (my fault for not looking closely enough. Check to make sure the routing plug is in correctly (black plug the joined wires go into) it's easier to make sure if you take the sorter off, if it is, then maybe either the bare wires are touching or they aren't in the correct holes in the plug, to divert the coins where they need to go.

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