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Editors Note: This is a fur-
ther discussion that began in
the July 2015 issue of Slot
Tech Magazine and contin-
ued last month.
Topic:
Sporadic faults “bill rejected”
due to incorrect position of
the rotating cylinder (roller
guide) of anti-pullback
mechanism when banknote
or ticket crashes into this
cylinder.
The described parts, see
page 18, Figure 1, 2, 3 and 4
in the September 2015 issue
of Slot Tech Magazine.
The cylinder position is
sensed by a pivoting lever,
which enters the optical
sensor. The optical sensor
is the same type as encoder
for speed sensing Transport
motor and thus also con-
sists of an infrared LED and
phototransistor.
The beam of LED light to
the phototransistor is inter-
Page 4
Defects in UBA10, UBA-14 BVs-
Part 3
rupted as soon as the initial
position of the cylinder has
been reached.
Within a few years, I found
that if the length of the
interruption of beam is too
short, there are sporadic
faults of BV “bill rejected”
because the software on
CPU performs many opera-
tions in real time and
sometimes, the very short
pulse is too fast to be evalu-
ated properly.
The result is that the roller
does not stop at the right
place but somewhat later in
view of the inertia of the
motor and other compo-
nents.
Interestingly, the majority
of new and old UBAs have a
relatively short pulse length
and so sometimes encoun-
ter this error.
The occurrence of errors is
sporadic because the UBA
firmware is so intelligent, it
can eliminate the mechani-
cal imperfection but like
any software, not always.
Mentioned defect “bill re-
jected” due to incorrect
position of the cylinder is
displayed in “JCM ID003
host simulator” that mes-
sage “REJECT 75” and UBA
Slot Tech Magazine
By Henry Kollar-Slovakia
during normal use indi-
cates 5x green LED flashes
always some time after
returning of bill, provided
that no further bill has
been inserted.
Fatal error of ANTI PULL-
BACK mechanism can
mean:
PB motor is disconnected or
damaged
Jammed cylinder or drive
mechanism
Disconnected or faulty
positioning sensor
Fault of lower reader board
Fault of CPU control board
Fatal error of PB ANTI
PULLBACK mechanism is
indicated 9x red LED
flashes during initialization
or during operation, when-
ever the UBA needs to
rotate the cylinder and
there is a problem.
The “JCM ID003 host simu-
lator” displayed message
“FAILURE AF”.
Testing of ANTI PULLBACK
mechanism can be per-
formed by switching the
switches on the CPU con-
trol board as seen in Figure
7a, 7b and 7c.
During the test, the recom-
mended proper function of
mechanism, if green LED
lighting longer.
October 2015
October 2015 Slot Tech Magazine Page 5
Not recommended if green LED only
briefly lights at intervals of a click pivoting
lever.
Figure 7a
Figure 7b
Figure 7c
To better understand what happens,
please see figure 8. Figure 9 shows the
recommended status.
Solution:
I chose the simplest solution, without the
risk of damage and excessive wear any
components.
This solution consists in change of the
sensor position according to Figure 10.
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Topic: Power failure of solenoid
“SOLENOID ASSY R.”
In the event of such a failure, there occurs
a fatal failure of the centering mechanism
for the bills.
Described parts see fig 11.
Unless the defect is actually caused by
heavy dirt on the mechanism, then the
fault is almost always at the upper reader
board.
Failure of the upper reader board may
cause:
1.) Solenoid is not powered - no uplift of
pressure roller for bill centering.
2.) Solenoid is powered continuously -
pressure roller remains uplifted and after
a few hours, this leads to thermal deforma-
tion of the upper plastic door of UBA,
including the mechanism itself.
UBA indicated no error during initializa-
tion and during operation.
Figure 8
Figure 9
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Figure 11
After inserting a bill into the UBA, no
centering occurs and it stops (solenoid is
not powered) or bill centering occurs but
the bill does not move to the reader zone
and stops (solenoid is permanently pow-
ered).
Testing of SOLENOID mechanism can be
performed by switching the switches on
the CPU control board as shown in Figure
12a, 12b and 12c.
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Figure 10
During the test, when the solenoid is
powered, the green LED is illuminated. As
the solenoid turns ON and OFF, you’ll
hear loud clicks.
Repair of upper reader board:
When the solenoid is not working at all or
is permanently powered, the most com-
mon failure is bad N-MOSFET transistor
FET7 (open or short) in smd package
SOT23 in the upper reader board -see
October 2015
October 2015 Slot Tech Magazine Page 9
figure 13 and 14.

Types of transistors used in

the FET7 position:
During the years 2006-
2008 this transistor has
SMD marking “G14” and is
type 2SK1581, manufac-
turer Renesas (formerly
NEC) work well and rarely
fail.
During the years 2008- Figure 12a
2012, this transistor has
SMD marking “K602” and
is type STK0602, manufac-
turer AUK. This transistor
is often faulty in this appli-
cation after working for two
years or more.
The 2013 and newer units
are marked “RKU” and are
probably similar to type
STK7002 (RK7002). It has
not yet been identified as
causing problems.

I personally do not use in

this aplication, N-MOSFET
substitutes but secure and Figure 12b
more reliable “digital” NPN
transistors with resistor
divider on the chip, manu-
facturer: Infineon (formerly
Siemens) type BCR512
SMD marking XFs, which
has been verified for de-
cades in microprocessor
controlled coin validators
from NRI.

After replacing the transis-

tor FET7 for BCR512 is a
defect safely solved without
complaint. She works five
years or more.
Figure 12c
Henry Kollar, Slovakia

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 Slot Tech Feature Article

Quick & Simple Repairs #117

By Pat Porath

Did the BIOS EPROM have a Oasis 360 Floor Logix

WMS BB1 Slant “Cashout
Host Failed”
bent leg or did the jurisdic-
tion chip have a bent leg or
was not seated properly? A
co-worker and I found one of
the legs on the BIOS chip
was slightly bent. It was
straightened and reseated
into its socket. Still no game
graphics! What the? I asked
if I had RAM cleared the
original CPU board or the
replacement. Sure enough I
had forgotten to clear the
Program
I cannot stress enough how
much I like the Oasis (CDS)
Floor Logix program. Prob-
lems and failures can be
seen BEFORE a customer or
slot attendant runs into
them. I try to check it a little
after 8:00am before a bunch
of customers get on the floor.
Just the other day there was
a WMS Blade game that had

O
ne thing we noticed
right away when
opening up the CPU
board was the cooling fan
above the processor chip
wasn’t working. This was
after numerous main door
resets, Sentinel reboots and
game reboots. I even called
our WMS tech...oops Scien-
tific games tech for any
advice. It didn’t matter what
we tried, nothing would clear
the “cashout host error.” The
tech said it may have some-
thing to do with our Oasis
system communication but I
had good COM at the Senti-
nel along with the system
side. In our tech log book,
the previous shift had al-
ready preformed a RAM clear
on the game which didn’t
help either.
Another thing the tech
stated was the CPU may
have gone bad. The original
board was RAM cleared once
again just to make sure, only
to come up with the same
failure. Finally a replace-
ment CPU board was in-
stalled. The game graphics
wouldn’t load all the way.
Near the end of boot up, the
“configure bar” wouldn’t keep
flashing; it would only go so
far then totally freeze up.
replacement board. Finally a call attendant error on it
after RAM clearing the re- and needed to be rebooted.
placement board, setting There were two older Aristo-
options, and waiting quite a crat games that had a yellow
while for it to “do its thing” border around the Oasis
during boot up, it fully booted
up complete with game
graphics. It took some time
but we got the game running
again.
JCM Ticket Printer
We have some older type
JCM ticket printers on the
floor that need a little bit of
TLC once in a while. For the
most part only the rubber
roller and optics need yo be
cleaned. Recently, I ran into
two of them in which it
appeared the main DC motor
got weak. It would only make
a grinding noise not spinning
the gears. Since I had a few
other printers in my printer
junk pile, why not make a
couple of good ones from
parts? One had a bad motor,
the other had a bad feed
button. So, motherboards
were swapped between the
two units. Now one had a bad
motor along with a bad feed
button, the other had a good
motor (printer head) and a
good board. After bench
testing it, the printer worked
perfectly.

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display which meant the
game lost communication
with the Sentinel. A simple
SPC board clear fixed both. A
different game had a red
boarder on the display which
meant the Sentinel lost
communication with the
system. Somehow the CAT 5
cable wasn’t snug in its
connector. Once plugged in
all the way it worked fine. If
we hadn’t looked at the Floor
Logixs program, we may have
had unhappy customers. The
games wouldn’t take promo
cash or accept tickets if not
communicating. Also if a
customer cashed out credits
there would be a good
chance the game would lock
up for a hand pay.
Color Kinetics
LED Lights
Color Kinetics LED
lights bars are
p r e t t y darn cool.
In a nut shell, a
whole pile of them
can be synced to
banks and
banks of signs,
all flashing the
same color at the
same time. Basically,
a computer runs the
program for different
light patterns, the power
supplies and CAT 5 cables
operate the LEDs.
On one sign, two LED bars
appeared to have some type
of short in them. They would
only flash really dimly, noth-
ing else. One bar was un-
plugged, then the other
without a change. It was
determined the power supply
may have gone bad. Sure
enough, after removing it
from the sign, bad caps
replaced, the LED lit up
great. Simply bad capacitors
in the power supply for those
two light bars.
IGT Bar Top Game “Green
Screen” Error
First of all, new software
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was installed, “Dakota Thun-
der” and “Figaro” (standard
video slot programs). Not long
after boot up, the game
would lock up in a “green
screen” with a “presentation
error.” E-Key 7 along with
the diagnostics dongle were
used to wipe the hard drive,
clear static RAM and cabinet
memory. Both themes were
tried separately to see if any
errors would appear. After a
little while a “presentation
error” would appear once
again. When using the fa-
mous Google search engine,
in a few areas, a faulty
ticket printer may be to
blame. Proper FutureLogic
ticket printer software was
verified with the working
game next door so the
printer was not the problem.
A few different machine
options were set different
such as “cabinet type” from
AVP slant to NONE, “static
pay table” set from ENABLED
to DISABLED. A few different
3.0 brain boxes were tried,
none worked properly. From
what I was told, the original
was put back in but this time
we tried different version of
operating software (different
version of OS). This time
the game would stay
running for between six
and nine hours before
going into an error.
This time the error
was “unable to
call lua func-
tion’” “attempt to
in- dex digital glass.” At
l e a s t we had a different
error this time. Since “digital
glass” was in the error,
maybe the cabinet type
needed to be changed from
AVP slant to NONE, static
pay table to NONE, default
theme set to NONE, cabinet
lighting to NONE, and Game
King option was set to MULTI
GAME. Another option that
was changed was attract
mode set to DISABLE. We
will see what happens this
time. In theory, since a game
option was set to AVP slant,
the brain box may be “look-
Slot Tech Magazine
ing” for a second LCD which
doesn’t exist on a bar top
game. I was also told to set
an option to G20 BT, mean-
ing Bar Top but I didn’t see
the option available. By
setting numerous options to
DISABLE and NONE, the
game didn’t go into any more
errors.
WMS BB1 Wan’t Accepting
Tickets
Numerous things with tried
with this older WMS game,
nothing seemed to work. The
game would not accept tick-
ets and give credit. We are
running the Aristocrat Oasis
360 system (some of us still
call it CDS) and it has a
Sentinel III installed in it.
Once in a while, when a
WMS won’t accept a ticket,
the game and or Sentinel
may only need a reboot.
When that doesn’t work,
sometimes taking the Senti-
nel “offline then put it back
online” works. Bill acceptors
were swapped, RAM was
cleared on the Sentinel and
RAM was cleared on the
game. Nothing at all would
work. Game options were
checked and rechecked,
such as validation set to
enhanced, accept tickets to
enable, Ithaca 850 printer
was selected like it was
supposed to be. Everything
seemed to be set as it
should. I even checked some
of the “global options” on the
Sentinel. Items the IT de-
partment or accounting
department could change if
they were not set correctly.
They all looked good too.
What the world was left? A
co-worker stated maybe
replacing the Sentinel would
fix the issue. Nothing else
seemed to work so why not?
Directly after the swap, the
game accepted a ticket.
Simply replacing the Senti-
nel with a spare fixed the
problem. Finally, it would
accept tickets once again.
October 2015
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A Sign of a Busy Day
When pulling into the park-
ing lot I noticed a power
company truck sitting with
its lights flashing. Definitely
not a good sign. After talking
to a few people, I guess a
pretty good thunderstorm
rolled through and somehow
a fuse blew on a power
transformer knocking out
some of the main power
located in the front part of
the casino. With the air
conditioning out for some
time, it was already feeling
quite warm in that area.
Luckily the gaming floor
didn’t get hit very hard this
time, I guess we only lost a
handful of games. It was just
a few power supplies and a
couple of monitors. The last
time a major thunder storm
went through, we got hit
pretty hard. We lost between
30 and 40 games. All the
games were running like
they were supposed to except
one. An IGT G 20 Game King
slant top had the main power
switch in the ON position but
no power appeared to the
game. Of course I was think-
ing, maybe the AC power
supply, or possibly a fuse
somewhere. Just for the
heck of it the power switch
was turned OFF for a mo-
ment, then back ON.
Cool...the game started
booting up normally. After
boot up everything looked
normal. We sure got lucky
with that main power issue.
games, when the spin or max
bet button is pressed during
a “win” credit will quickly go
into the credit meter on the
game. Why didn’t the Konami
do it like the rest? The co-
worker even stated it was
the only game on that side of
the bank that had this par-
ticular issue. Sure enough,
located in the “set up” area,
“quick play” needed to be
selected; it was disabled. I
was unable to find a “save”
button to save the new game
setting, until I closed the
main slot door. Right on the
screen it showed “reboot
game to save new settings.”
Duh, that’s how to save
options on these games.
After boot up it was tested
and worked fine. Won credits
quickly accumulated into the
meter when the spin button
was pressed.
- Pat Porath
pporath@slot-techs.com

Konami Podium “Credits

Not Adding Up Quickly”
Complaint

I received a concern from a

co-worker about a Konami
game in which a customer
didn’t like how slow the
credits accumulated from a
win INTO the credit meter.
In other words, the customer
wanted faster game play.
When he won a few hundred
credits he would have to wait
for them to slowly add to the
credit meter. On most

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