Fruit Machine Chat

Hi i own a 94/95 cops and robbers £200 jackpot machine.
Machine was working great till last night.
I had the back door open and was playing on free when i got called away by my girlfriend,i pushed the door to and walked away but heard the alarm sound a couple of times.

On returning,nothing was working,lights in the machine were on but the front lights had all gone and the reels would not spin.

I have no experience as to fixing a machine,so any help,advice would be grateful,thank you.

I know exactly what this is mate

Thank you jb but could you elaborate please?

One of the four fuses in the PSU?

Thank you Jaffa,not that i know where the psu is lol
But i do have the handbook with machine,so i will give that a try,many thanks.

Power supply unit. It`s the big heavy thing at the bottom of the machine where the lead goes into. There will be 4 push and turn black plastic fuse holders on it.

Oh i see,the power supply,my one is a large round unit i think,didnt know there were fuses there,i will take a look.

That`s the one!

Jaffa,i pulled the machine out to take a look,switched it on and it came alive!!
So i played a few goes,cheated in the jackpot to hear it play"whoa im going to Barbados"Then half way through the song it went all glitchy and the LCD went all funny and ended up showing error 97?

Now it is dead again,i checked all the fuses and they all seem fine although one was hard to get out and the clasp that holds the fuse looked a bit knackered.

Could be a lot of things, PSU, main board etc. Someone with more knowledge than me will probably come along and help you shortly!

Have a quick look at the main board (attached on the inside of the back door under a metal box) and look for leakage (green) from the small battery. Just an idea!

Well thank you very much for your help,at least i know what a psu is now and where the fuses are!!

Hoping its not a big problem,dont think it is,as there are some lights on in the back.

Thanks for the back door tip,didnt see that when i did my last reply,will have a look.

Just checked,no sign of leakage,dont think it can be a big problem as all was fine till i pushed the door to,slowly as well!!

It's still buggered arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh