Balar

Just tell them you'll simulate their games: get them to give you £20 and then just say sorry you didn't win, want to try again?

Fuses (from past experience) are usually on the physical power box that everything connects into - HOWEVER and it's a big however, if it is a fuse then when i last looked they aren't the standard 'plug' jobbies but specilist ones - and unless you got a spare your still buggered

Well that's are far as i can go as i've not opened one of these for a while - i'm sure tonight some friendly engineers will be making and appearance and assist better than i can

The English market is going the way of the USA low techs has - effectively continually reintroduce an old idea. Have a look at what Bally, WMS and IGT throw out these days, you'd have though there's a limited to the number of double tripple 5-times 10-times 7-times diamond line tripple sizzling 7's jackpot machines - but no there's always room for another!!

I think what'll halt all this is not ideas, but simpily how much text they can fit on the front without using stupid tiny font - that or we are going to see a huge increase in 3-player units just to be able to show the machine names! lol

Not super familiar with the insides on this one but i would imagine you've blown a fuse in the circuit (assuming they are still fuse filled and not breakers)

Most likey that, or you could have a duff bulb now in the circuit that although hasn't 'blown' is buggering up the expected currents (as sometimes seen in the world of Christmas trees!) and the machine is therefore not allowing full power on.

Might be wrong - often am!

As stated in several other discussions that people have had the outcome of any game is already decided prior to spinning in. What your seeing on the screen is what that particular 'game' in progress when it crashed was going to pay. People are correct in that the figure is pounds and pence - therefore your winning was £130 - you may have had 5 cards (or whatever) but no matter what you picked on the screen the total game win was £130.
The reason it has the pence format is that for obvious reasons you can get a game that gives you less than a pound (50p win). If no pence stated in the win counter it'd always look like you'd won 100x the actual win - thus what the counters display is the number of pence you have won 13000pence = £130
As the machine has clearly shown the win should have been £130 then in my opinion you should have been paid the money.
HOWEVER - there is usually the malfunction voids all plays and pays rule..........