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 Slot Tech Feature Article

Quick & Simple Repairs #109

By Pat Porath

radio for a second opinion “door open f” wouldn’t

even though I was quite clear. It may also be known
sure the OS card was bad. as the main door, front door
The tech asked for the OS or hood door. This game it
number so they could look didn’t have door optics,
to see if we happened to only a standard white
have a spare. Luckily we cherry switch. Connections
WMS Bluebird MBR
did. They inserted a were checked and such;
Read Failed-I/O Error
replacement OS CF card nothing appeared unusual.

I
into the CPU, power was For the heck of it, my small
recently had a Bluebird
turned ON once again, and screwdriver was used to
with an “MBR read
“ignition . . . we have liftoff” “short out” the other side of
failed, I/O error.” A floor
the game booted up all the the switch because only
supervisor stated the game
way. three of the six pins were
also showed a “flash error”
being used. Oddly enough,
before a power cycle. When
IGT AVP Crystal Core the door open f showed
it started to boot up, just
closed for a second. I
above the “read failed” the
We recently received a pair removed the switch, moved
monitor showed “game kit
of IGT AVP Crystal Core 4.0 the three pin connector to
flash validated” which told
games. At first I was like the other unused side of
me there was a pretty good
“what the heck model is the switch, then pulled out
chance the game CF card
this?” It has the new
was OK. After opening up
“IGT” logo on it, an
the CPU board area, it was
LCD type button
obvious dust bunnies may
panel and a huge
be part of the problem so I
upper LCD so I
took the board outside and
thought I would take
blew it out with compressed
a picture of the
air. I also inspected the
inside because it
fans to see if they looked
looked pretty darn
OK. Both the game and OS
neat.
cards were reseated too yet
the error appeared once
IGT G20 Slant
again quickly after an
“Door Open F”
attempted boot up. Next, I
Problem
made sure the BIOS and
jurisdiction chips in the
Since I was the only
CPU area were seated nice
technician on duty
and snugly, which they
at the time, I was
were so that more than
called to a slant top
likely wasn’t the problem
game in which a
either. I called over the

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October 2014 Slot Tech Magazine Page 5
the switch to complete the Bally CineReel “Please Q tip which didn’t help
circuit to simulate a “closed Remove Voucher” either. The Epic 950 printer
door.” Sure enough, it Wouldn’t Clear was reseated along with a
worked perfectly. Maybe it full game reboot. Nothing
could be classified as an First of all, a door reset, a would clear it. Even though
“FM repair.” cabinet reboot and re- it would print a self-test
feeding paper wouldn’t ticket and a demo ticket, it
Editor’s Note: Pat, I had the clear the error. Every time would not work properly in
same thing happen to my the slot door was closed the regular game mode. I
wife’s Hyundai Tucson. The “please remove voucher” replaced the printer with a
“air bag” light illuminated error would appear. The spare. Once replaced and
on the dashboard. The “ticket taken” optic was after another boot up, the
computer fault code quickly cleaned with a dry error finally cleared.
indicated a bad switch in
the passenger seat buckle.
The dealer wanted
hundreds of dollars to fix it.
I politely (well, maybe not-
so-politely) declined the
repair. It was actually just
bad interface. All I did to
clear the fault was
disconnect and reconnect
the seat buckle connector.
Damn, I love being a repair
technician.

IGT G20 “Board Monitor

Tilt 12v Out of Range”

An IGT G20 upright game

had a “board monitor 12v
out of range” error. I’ve
seen 3.5v out of range and
CPU temperature out of
range but it was my first
time seeing a 12v out of
range. There are 3.5v
lithium button type
batteries in the brain box
area and a 9v battery pack
located on the motherboard
so where does the 12v error
come from? The answer to
my question was an item
called an “ATX board”, a
sort of power distribution
board. The IGT part number
for it is 75831001W. After it
was replaced with a spare,
the error cleared.

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WMS BB1 Reel 1 Tilt obstructing the touch problem, or “taking the
screen? I went into game offline” then putting
When arriving for my shift, diagnostics to test the it “back online” sometimes
there was a WMS BB1 touch screen and it didn’t fixed the problem too. In
stepper game turned off seem to work at all. A quick some cases, rebooting the
that had constant reel 1 calibration fixed the touch game may make it print a
tilts so I had to check it out. screen so it worked ticket properly. Also
During boot up, all the correctly. The customer making sure there is game
reels spin slowly but reel 1 gave the game a few spins, TO system communication
was spinning at a slightly it worked OK now. No and Sentinel TO system
different RPM. With power doubt something was going communication, where on a
off, I reseated it into its on with the touch screen Sentinel III there is a yellow
connector. This time it before it was calibrated. or red border around the
appeared to be OK. When Oasis display. Paper was
the door was closed, part of Konami Slant Not reseated, it even would
the “reel frame decoration” Printing Tickets print a self-test ticket but
located on the door was not a cash-out ticket. On an
slightly touching reel 1. It We had a slant top newer older Aristocrat game, if
was slightly tweaked so Konami game locking up EVERYTHING else fails, the
there was enough clearance for hand pays instead of game needs to be RAM
for the reel to spin without printing tickets. It took me cleared for it to print
touching it at all. I a little while to figure it out properly. The last thing I
downloaded some “promo but I got it. Including other tried on the Konami was
cash” to test the game to manufacturers of slots, reseating the printer. For
make sure it didn’t have an sometimes if a game isn’t some odd reason it worked.
error when a customer was accepting “promo cash” or Afterward it printed three
playing and it was fine. not printing a ticket and cash-out tickets perfectly.
After testing the game for a locking up for hand pays,
few minutes it was fine, no rebooting the Oasis - Pat Porath
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Something goes in here.
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 Slot Tech Feature Article

WP210F11
By Herschel Peeler
that happens in sequence. usually PFC drive not com-
The Vcc powers other cir- ing up due to a failure
cuits to get the power sup- elsewhere in the circuit.
ply started. This is a high
failure point. Failures can Troubleshooting With
easily be troubleshot with Power On
an ohmmeter with power
off. Diodes and caps and As B+ comes all the way up,

T
his is a big one. Let’s the Viper itself are typical PFC should start oscillat-
start by breaking the failures. ing. At the cathode of the
circuits down into dual diode D106 you
sections. The drawing Troubleshooting With should see about +400
VIPER12A shows the AC Power On Volts. If you only get +160
coming in. No surprises VDC or so, the PFC circuit
here. The standard design If you follow the suggested is not working.
of line filters to keep the test procedure power up
noise the power supply the power supply slowly, +400 V Line
generates off the AC line. monitoring the AC current
Not many failures here. It for excessive drain. See that Following D106 we have
gets rectified to generate B+ comes up. When B+ two NTC (Negative Tempera-
the B+ line, about 160 gets up to about 90 Volts ture Coefficient) ther-
VDC. Between the negative the VCC circuit should mistors and the huge reser-
side of the bridge and come up, about 15 Volts. voir caps C112 and C113.
ground there is a small These caps are a high fail-
circuit made of two parallel PFC ure rate. If the power sup-
0.100 Ohm resistors and a ply is a few years old, re-
couple of diodes. This is our Just above the Viper – Vcc place them as a matter of
current sensing circuit. It circuit is the Power Factor policy. These are a high
will generate a small nega- Correction circuit. We have stress point in the circuit.
tive voltage proportional to two parallel circuits at work Remember that it isn’t the
the current on the B+ line. in this one. The circuits of line current that actually
This will be no more than Q104 and Q106 should drives the game. The line
1.2 Volts, limited by the come up together. Both are current charges up these
diodes. driven by the current buff- caps in pulses. The game is
ers Q101 and Q102. When powered by drawing cur-
B+ comes up, the PFC rent off these caps. Reser-
Viper and V CC
circuit (we will cover later) voir, right? Filled in spurts
should come alive. Trouble- at a high volume and
Next in line we have the shooting with power off drained off in a constant
Viper12A that takes the B+ can’t tell much other than flow at a lower current.
line down to generate Vcc. bad caps and transistors.
This is the second thing Problems in this area are

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Over-Temperature Q101 turns on when we have an over-temp
Sensing condition, U101 pin 7 low, bringing CTR1-
8 down to less than 1 Volt. Q101 going low
Just to the right of these caps we have two also turns Q1203 on. This gives a high into
resistor networks that monitor the level of IC102. IC102 (an M51957) is a delay block.
the +400 Volt line and drop it down for A high in gives a high out of pin 6 after a
sensing circuits. Just below that in the delay. With a 22 µF cap, this gives about a
schematic is a thermistor that senses over- 7.5 second delay.
temperature conditions. The voltage across
the thermistor should be about 5 Volts at Normally Q106 is off. Either of the error
room temperature (25 C). conditions on the Gate will trigger Q106
on, bringing CTR1-8 down to about 5
Brownout Protect Volts. So CTR1-8 at 5 Volts points to one of
Circuitry these error conditions. Restarting will be
attempted about every seven seconds.
This circuit generates another Vcc line
that powers CTR1, one of the control PFC IR1150
boards. It senses the B+ line for sags on
the AC line. CTR1-3 is that Over-temp 5 This chip gets power from the same place
Volt signal mentioned earlier. This feeds to as the Viper so it gets power early on. It is
a Voltage Comparator IC101 A, pin 2. This on the CTR1 board. Pin 7 should be +15 V
voltage is compared to the voltage on pin 3 (Viper Vcc) you can find this on pin 1 of
(3.38 V). CTR1-1 should be 15 Volts and CTR1. Pin 8 of the IR1150 (CTR1-4) should
powers this circuit. be oscillating. This is the Gate Drive to the
Viper. If you don’t get this, either the
Normally Q102 is on, giving that 15 V out IR1150 is bad or one of the control inputs
CTR1-8. This 15 Volt level is set by ZD102 is stopping it from running. CTR1-2 is
and R109. Current Sense and should be a small
negative voltage. A fraction of a volt is

October 2014 Slot Tech Magazine Page 11

good. At the bench with no transformer output and AC_SIN_In
load it should be close to controls the MOSFETs.
zero, maybe -0.10 V. CTR1- This circuit puts out a 60
6 is Over-voltage protect. It IC302 is a LT432 Voltage Hz pulse stream to the CPU
should be about 6 V if the Reference IC. R321 and for timing and monitoring
400 V line is correct. CTR1- R322 form a voltage divider the AC line. The circuit on
7 is Feedback that monitors that puts 2.5 Volts to the the left picks up the AC
the +400 V line. It should reference input of the line. IC502 isolates the
be about 7 Volts if the 400 TL432. If the 12 Volt line signal and creates a power
V line is good. goes higher, the TL432 supply ground referenced
turns on triggering the pulse string. A failure worth
CTR2 12 V PWM optoisolator (IC301) inform- noting here if you only
ing the circuit of the voltage check for DC power to come
This is the PWM controller regulator to lower the volt- up when testing these on
for the 12 Volt regulator. age a bit. The other part of the bench. This circuit will
An L6599. This is one of IC301 is in the lower left not cause the DC supplies
the dual output types. It corner of this same sche- to fail. C508 and C510
alternates output pulses matic and feeds the make up an AC resistor.
between the two outputs, Standby input of the They use the capacitive
HVG (High Gate Drive) and L6599. reactance as a resistance to
LVG (Low Gate Drive). As drop the AC line voltage
long as it has Vcc and no So, why use MOSFETs down, limiting it to about
error conditions, the out- instead of rectifiers? If you 10 mA. 1/(6.28*60*.2 µF)
puts should be pulsing. drop a volt or two across the comes to about 13,000
We have all the usual pins rectifiers it is a loss of 5% to Ohms, 1/(2?*F*C).
we would expect. ISEN is 10% in efficiency. While the
the current sense input MOSFETs only have a drop IC503 senses the rising
that monitors the current of a fraction of a volt and a edge of the 12 Volt supply.
through the primary of the small fraction of an ohm of A low out disables the
12 volt transformer. The resistance. You will find AC_SIN_IN signal until 12 V
Disable (DIS) input stops this design more and more is stable. After that, the
the L6599 if it goes above on low voltage high current other side of IC502 gives us
1.85 V. The Standby (STBY) supplies. A 0.6 V drop in a those 60 Hz pulses out to
input stops the L6599 if it 3.3 V supply is an 18% loss. the game. Failures here are
goes below 1.25 V. The the caps C508 and C510,
Reference Output should CTR2 24 V PWM IC502 and IC503.
be 2 Volts.
This is much the same - Herschel Peeler
The Line input monitors circuit as for the 12 V side.
the 400 V line and should We won’t go through it
be 2.0 Volts. again. Slot Tech Magazine is an
official publication of the
12 Volt Regulator 24 V Regulator

This is a classic example of This is about the same

a synchronous rectifier. circuit as the 12 V side but
Instead of rectifiers, we uses regular rectifiers in-
have MOSFET transistors stead of MOSFETs.
that get turned on at the
right time instead. IC103 (a
GR8387) monitors the

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 Slot Tech Reference-SMD Markings

B
eginning in
the early
eighties, there
was a trend to replace
a traditional through-
hole technique with
the surface mounted
technology (SMT)
using surface
mounted devices
(SMD). The SMT,
although intended in
principle for
automatic
manufacturing only,
expanded more and
more. This trend
continues because
many new
components are
available in SMD
versions only. The
SMT technique opens
advantages and new
applications through
miniaturizing of the
components and
increased reliability.
The industry
standard,
unfortunately, allows
that most of the SMD
components do not
have a clear
description. Because
of the tiny size of the
components, they are
labeled with one, two
or more characters
and/or a graphic SMD
code.

The polarity and

pinouts of different
components can not
be identified without
data sheets.

October 2014 Slot Tech Magazine Page 19

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Identifying the lnfineon devices usually make this up myself.
manufacturers type have a lower case ‘s’ (ATs, Sometimes electronics is
number of an SMD device LOs). NXP (Philips) devices awesome and fun. Locating
from the package code can usually have a lower case a problem can be quick and
be a difficult task. ‘p’ (AHp, Z1 p, pBO) or·-· easy. Locating a
Unfortunately, each device (DQ-, -ZS) for the devices replacement component
code is not necessarily made in Hong Kong, ‘t’ (tT9, can be a pain in the ass.-
unique. It is possible for Y7t) for the devices made in STM
various manufacturers to Malaysia, “W” (WT9, Y7W)
place different devices in for the devices made in
the same case with the China.
same SMD code. For
example, a GH SMD code Sometimes ADVERTISEMENT - Power Supply Repair
in an SOT-23 case might be you can
either a NPN transistor identify the
BC818 or a capacitance- logos of the
diode FMMV2104 (Zetex) or SMD device
an n-channel jFET manufacturers.
transistor MMBF5486 The package
(Motorola) or a PNP type is
transistor MUN2131 another
(Motorola) or a PNP problem for
transistor UN2117 the
(Panasonic) or a CMOS identification
integrated circuit voltage of SMD
detector with reset output devices.
R3131N36EA (Ricoh). Even Different
the same manufacturer manufacturers
may use the same code for can designate
different devices. identical cases
by various
To identify a particular standards. In
SMD device, is necessary to addition, the
identify the manufacturer, various cases
package type and note the can have an
SMD code printed on the identical form
device. The identification of factor and
the manufacturer is differ only by
possible only if the case is size. This
printed the manufacturer’s difference in
logo but that doesn’t always size can be
happen. very small so
it is not
Sometimes it is possible to enough to just
determine the look at them.
manufacturer with indirect In some cases,
tags. Many recent ON you’d need to
Semiconductor devices have measure the
a small superscript letter size a
after the device code, such micrometer.
as SAc (this smaller letter is
merely a month of Sorry, I don’t
manufacture code).
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Randy Fromm

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