Joust coin mechs made me insane

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This post is to help someone who might go through what I did just now and/or just make me look like a dumb ass.

I put a coin mech in Joust, it worked fine all day Saturday. I got a couple extra mechs off a friend and put a second one in. I tried it, it wouldn't take the coin. I tried the other one I put in a couple days ago, no dice. I took them out, I put them back in, took them out again, cleaned them, oiled anything that looked like it could be oiled, put them in again, tried them in another machine... They worked in another machine. They worked when out.

I'm sure many of you know what the problem was:

The Joust machine was off. As soon as I turned it on they worked perfectly. This is only with Joust, none of the other 6 machines I have are effected by the power being on or off so who knew? Not I. argh.

So I spent almost an hour being dumb :/ Not that I feel much smarter at this point.

I hope me telling of this saves someone the same trouble.
 
Check the solinoid coils on the side of the coin mech. If the movable part is not snapped tight to the coil, there will be a pin that is inserted into the coin mech. This pin deflects the coins back into the coin return. It was originally designed to do that so people wouldn't get screwed by dropping coins into a non-powered machine. Over time, operators figured out that if you bent the solenoids back so the pin was not inserted they got free quarters (and you the cunstomer got screwed). Based on your desciption, the solenoids are not bent back and the pins are in the coin mechs and either the Joust is powered off when you are testing or the solenoids are not powered.

Are you using an original Joust power supply or a switcher?

ken
 
It's original. And it works correctly, it just took me too long to realize why it didn't take quarters when it was not powered on. It works perfectly, my brain, apparently, did not.
 
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