I'm troubleshooting a wiring issue in a Spin-N-Win today...

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I'm troubleshooting a wiring issue in a Spin-N-Win today...

... Fuck you, Skee-Ball. Fuck. You.

I swear, this machine is deliberately designed to smash your head into fluorescent tubes and rain mercury vapor on your hair. Who mounts unprotected fluoresecents on a door that swivels upwards with no supports? Or -- even better -- the marquee fluorescents are mounted to the access panel, which doesn't swivel out, you just take out four screws and then it pulls straight out. Except the marquee fixture is screwed down to it with the tubes jutting out of it, naked and exposed. If you don't notice that you're pulling out the fixture with the access panel -- which you probably won't unless you're REALLY paying attention -- you WILL smash a tube. Fucking brilliant.

I thought I had seen it all, but this takes the cake. This machine is nothing but dangerous.
 
The breaking of the tubes on your head gets you ready for some backyard wrestling!

What problem are you trying to figure out on it? I have 2 Spin-N-Wins that I have worked on quite a bit and could use as a reference for you. And maybe a couple parts. I never knew that the bell goes off when you hit the jackpot until I heard my #2 at another location went off. Distributor never hooked it up correctly when it was delivered (distributor messed a few thing up on other games that I found by accident)-now I try to assemble all games that come in.
 
The breaking of the tubes on your head gets you ready for some backyard wrestling!

What problem are you trying to figure out on it? I have 2 Spin-N-Wins that I have worked on quite a bit and could use as a reference for you. And maybe a couple parts. I never knew that the bell goes off when you hit the jackpot until I heard my #2 at another location went off. Distributor never hooked it up correctly when it was delivered (distributor messed a few thing up on other games that I found by accident)-now I try to assemble all games that come in.

I actually figured it out -- it wasn't wiring after all. Found another dumb design flaw -- the 120VAC incandescant lamps on the wheel and marquee are switched by very tiny DIP relays that can't take much current -- and they're unfused. So if the bulb arcs as it blows, which with incandescants, happens a lot, pop goes the relay. I cannibalized one from an unused section of the same relay board (there's seven spots on the marquee board that are populated but unused for this game) and that light is now turning on and off like it's supposed to.
 
That is the truth about those micro relays/transistors, I'm getting ready to do the same with one of mine. On the top name marquee I have one stuck on so it isn't a high priority with all the other problems I am having (Ideal card swipe system got update 2 weeks ago and still ironing out problems). My Stop button was cracked from factory and the flasher light behind it never worked also. It was shattered and I just got a great deal on flashers and will be fixing that soon also when they get off the slow boat from China.
 
That is the truth about those micro relays/transistors, I'm getting ready to do the same with one of mine. On the top name marquee I have one stuck on so it isn't a high priority with all the other problems I am having (Ideal card swipe system got update 2 weeks ago and still ironing out problems). My Stop button was cracked from factory and the flasher light behind it never worked also. It was shattered and I just got a great deal on flashers and will be fixing that soon also when they get off the slow boat from China.

Those damn strobe lights... I've replaced two myself and another one has gone (we have two SNWs, one of each size). Thinking about just putting a white LED array behind it and calling it a day.
 
Those damn strobe lights... I've replaced two myself and another one has gone (we have two SNWs, one of each size). Thinking about just putting a white LED array behind it and calling it a day.

That's not a bad idea! I love it when people just pull the handle and stand back and wait for it to stop on its own and just win the default 20 tix after it times out. Maybe the constant on of the 'Stop" button will make them see what to do next. I'd rather see them win the 6 that is next to the 250 than win the 20 for doing nothing! Off to find some LED array to stick in there! Maybe some strobing color changing LEDs.
 
That's not a bad idea! I love it when people just pull the handle and stand back and wait for it to stop on its own and just win the default 20 tix after it times out.

I'm pretty sure the default payout is an option in the menu, separate from the payout table... I distinctly remember setting both ours to 1. (For $1.00 a play on the big wheel. I'm an evil bastard :D ) Check your manual.
 
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