Chik Chik Egg-citing pickup today, doesn't work.

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I have been on the hunt for a chicken/egg machine for quite some time. One came up in a consignment auction an hour away and I won it for $50! The information that the auction had was that it was fully functional, circuit board worked but needed a new coin mechanism. I got it home, plugged her up (is it a her?) and the lights came on. Seems like a good sign. I tried manually pressing the coin switch but nothing else happened. I also tried unhooking the coin switch and touching the ends together, in case the switch was broken. I checked the fuse and it was fine, but I assume if it was blown the lights wouldn't have came on.

I am not sure where to start with seeing what is broken. I have taken a bunch of pictures and maybe some of you can point me towards things to try to see what might be wrong. I have no electrical skills, but I can use a voltmeter :) and have built a mame machine from a Mace cabinet. Tomorrow I'll start tracing the wires and checking the cables with my voltmeter.

My goal here is to get it up and running, maybe fancy it up cosmetically and have a cool thing for my sons to play with.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42084858@N07/albums/72157673842542035
 
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There is no way that is working. It definitely needs new capacitors and you can go from there. If you want to send the board out to me let me know, unless you have good soldering skills.

Do you know who the manufacturer of this is?

You can jump the contacts of the switch seen on the coin mechanism to see if it does anything, but I highly doubt it, unless there's a miracle. (and even then it won't last long)
 
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Great score at a sweet price. Definitely will need some new capacitors. I want one of these, but I've never worked on one of so not sure if the lighting in the cabinet works off the same fuse... Take it out and turn the machine on. If it still lights up, check your fuse out of circuit.
 
I had already tried jumping the coin switch, it didn't do anything. However, I didn't do any tests with my voltmeter to make sure there was a connection downstream.

Take it out and turn the machine on. If it still lights up, check your fuse out of circuit.
Lights didn't work with the fuse out.

I pulled the board out and there was actually two boards. I brought them in and took a few pictures of both boards. The lower board is drastically cleaner than the top board. I found it interesting that both boards have a dial. If there was just one I would assume it was volume, but with two what could they be? I attached pictures of the boards in the original flickr link.

If you want to send the board out to me let me know, unless you have good soldering skills.
I would be glad to send the boards off to have them repaired by a pro. My one concern is first making sure the chicken motor works. There are only two wires connected to it. Is there some way to know what current I could put through there to turn on the motor and make sure it works? I hate to repair the boards to learn I have a dead motor.

I removed the eggs and counted around 350. I opened one up and I'm not even sure what kind of contraption was in it. There was even some instructions in there! I followed them but I still don't know what it was supposed to do.
 
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I had already tried jumping the coin switch, it didn't do anything. However, I didn't do any tests with my voltmeter to make sure there was a connection downstream.


Lights didn't work with the fuse out.

I pulled the board out and there was actually two boards. I brought them in and took a few pictures of both boards. The lower board is drastically cleaner than the top board. I found it interesting that both boards have a dial. If there was just one I would assume it was volume, but with two what could they be? I attached pictures of the boards in the original flickr link.


I would be glad to send the boards off to have them repaired by a pro. My one concern is first making sure the chicken motor works. There are only two wires connected to it. Is there some way to know what current I could put through there to turn on the motor and make sure it works? I hate to repair the boards to learn I have a dead motor.

I removed the eggs and counted around 350. I opened one up and I'm not even sure what kind of contraption was in it. There was even some instructions in there! I followed them but I still don't know what it was supposed to do.

Where do the two wires go... to that little transformer, or elsewhere?

I am very intrigued by this project.
 
Supper cool find.
I would have totally bought that as well.
The rolling rink I went to as a kid had a chicken machine.
 
Where do the two wires go... to that little transformer, or elsewhere?

Here is a picture with the harness plugged in and a few labels I put on it. Let me know what other angles or images I should take:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42084858@N07/29566841402

To me it looks like one of the chicken motor wires is connected directly to one of the light wires and one of the wall outlet wires. Those three are also connected to one side of the transformer.

On the other size is the other chicken motor wire, light wire and the wall outlet wire. The wall outlet wire is tied into one end of the fuse, the light wire is tied into the other end of the fuse. The second chicken motor wire looks to be tied into the orange thing (Sprague 6PS-P10 600DC) which is by a 10A 120VAC relay.

Update: So I think when the coin switch fires it triggers the 120vac relay. This lets electricity to the bird motor and it starts spinning. When an egg falls there is another switch that would be triggered to switch the relay back to off. How do we determine what voltage is sent to the motor so we can test it out? I'll take more pictures of the motor tonight in case there are some markings on it.

Update 2: I've updated the photos with all angles of the motor. No markings that did me any good. I tested continuity on the coin switch and the egg drop switch, both worked.
 
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What would happen if I hit the motor with 5v or 12v DC?
 
If the motor works it's worth what you paid for the whole machine.
Any ideas how to go about testing the motor? I'm afraid to just randomly hook DC or AC current up to it. I could dismantle the pieces around it and remove the motor if that would help.
 
Let me check my fun chicken tonight because the motors look similar. I may have a diagram as well.
Sweet, that would be really helpful. You might could stick your voltmeter across the terminals and see what is flowing through it when it's running.
 
Sweet, that would be really helpful. You might could stick your voltmeter across the terminals and see what is flowing through it when it's running.

Will do but give me the weekend cause I may be a little too intoxicated tonight :)
 
I haven't been back there yet but I have these pics on my computer so ill post them up until I can get in there, hope they help for now.



 
Thanks a ton for the photos. That explains why both of my boards have a dial on them. One is probably the volume and one is the speed. What is the difference between speed and time?

I'm going to pull this motor out this weekend since everything around it needs to be cleaned really well. Maybe that will also make it easier to test it out with AC or DC once you are able to take a reading. I'm itching to fire some electricity through it!

Update: I've removed my motor and on the top it says 110. I think it may be time to fire this motor up, while standing 6 feet back....

OMG Chicken motor works! https://www.flickr.com/photos/42084858@N07/29714871726/in/album-72157673842542035/
 
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Can you take a picture of the inside of your unit where the eggs are? Specifically I'm interested in the springs. Mine has two springs on the main square area, no idea what they are for. There was also a broken spring screwed onto the circle base by the pole that the chicken is on. Now sure where that broken spring was attached.

I assume it's some mechanism to shake everything up each time an egg drops.
 

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