GreatWonder

Meant to say, the battery cover has a Gemini 'tested and replaced' date of Jan '08. I thought 4 years was the average on a lithium. Must have been in storage a long time.

yes battery will need replacing

& when you remove the old battery you will see what one you need

as there some with 1 leg either side & some with 2 legs on the bottom & 1 ontop

btw welcome to the forums

Cheers!

I have been a long time 'lurker' on this forum. Will be a regular now I'm building my machine collection up again! I do have some knowledge from frequenting amusements since the early 90's and have in the past had to do some repairs (reel changing etc.). Also helped that a lot of my social circle worked in said places.

I assumed that the battery wasn't holding properly, the machine I got was obviously packed with dozens of others in some damp warehouse. It's working fine tonight apart from the top LED having some glitches. Will attempt to remove the cover plate from the MB and see what I need - though it's hexagonal screwed on so need to acquire the right screwdriver. Any more advice gratefully received in the interim!

oh and "monster cash" surely is global? a direct clone, same as "money magic" "bucks bunny" and all that

Yep, Monster Cash is a Global machine, I had that or Bucks Bunny to choose from (which is obviously it's reglass).

I'm pretty sure the battery on the mainboard has gone in my Warped machine, which runs on the Eclipse One Stop technology, as every now and again (about once a week) it will give an ALRM ON/OFF error on turning the machine on, along with a loud alarm. Cycling the power will make the machine come on. Also, the note acceptor stops working (until I reset the BNV key - a prime symptom of a dead battery, I heard).

The time on the clock is always wrong, it doesn't seem to advance when the machine is off, hence it always says 24-11-08 11:30am, or thereabouts.

Anyone know where I can get a new battery please, and is it particularly difficult to change it, as I cant see where the battery goes.

Cheers!

Sorry to hijack your thread, but recently bought a £35 Monster Cash (not greatest machine but good price) which I believe (according to manual is Eclipse).

Every few switch ons the machine would alarm with MEMORY RESET on the alpha, it would then initialize as normal (though settings default (volume ramped right up) and assume % also reset).

More recently have got the error 'CRIT MEM ERR 0' on the alpha which would not then initialize machine, it would just hang. Just switched it on again tonight and after a MEMORY RESET alarm it's going OK.

I'm assuming it's another battery back-up problem. Any idea if a new battery would help this problem before it gets worse? Also what battery make as it doesn't state in the manual)? Seen a few on eBay but only mentions Barcrest / Maygay or 2.4v and 3.6v. I'm guessing the battery is accessible behind the panel on the MB cover which says 'TESTED & BATTERY REPLACED'??

Thanks to anyone that can offer any help however small, seems there's a lot of AWP battery questions on the internet, but very few answers!?