Does this sound right? Re filling machine

chris_newton · Post by **chris_newton** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:37 pm

Hi all

I mentioned in my previous thread that my fruit machine (barcrest Pacman power up) was putting pound coins into the bottom tub even though the hopper was no where near full. I was unsure on how to correct this and after playing about this is what i did.

I attached 2 fobs to the sensors and activated hopper dump, i then pressed the start button and it emptied out the cash from the hopper. It said something like 211 short, something like that.

I then thought i just had to use the refill key and put it all back in, but when i touched the refil fob it started at 211 so when i was putting coins in it was going down to 210 209 etc.

so i did hopper dump again, and again it said i was short, this time i did another hopper dump so it said i was short by 250 then when i refilled it counted down from 250 to about 135 so i knew i had put 115 in the hopper.

Does this sound right or should it have been counting up when i used refill?

I am not sure if i have done this right or not?

Chris

buzzer · Post by **buzzer** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:03 pm

it will count down when your filling refil key.

it must have a 250 float, dump the hopper , chuck £250 coins in the hopper and hit the hopper top up sensor (the dongle should be on a chain near the coin mech)

chris_newton · Post by **chris_newton** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:10 pm

I don't have 250 to put in, so if it counts down then I guess it's working OK now and will now only overflow when there is more than 250 In the hopper?

buzzer · Post by **buzzer** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:32 pm

yes it will divert to cashbox when full

chris_newton · Post by **chris_newton** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:40 pm

Thanks so just so I know for future if hopper goes out of synch with dumping etc is it best to dump hopper twice does this reset it to zero?

As when I first dumped hopper it said I was short by 211 so I started filling it and expected it to start at 250 but it didn't. Only when I dumped it twice in succession it went to 250 short

buzzer · Post by **buzzer** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:32 pm

yes, if you dump an empty hopper, the machine will start from a zero float and fill hopper first.

chris_newton · Post by **chris_newton** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:47 am

buzzer wrote:yes, if you dump an empty hopper, the machine will start from a zero float and fill hopper first.

Cheers mate!

thecannonball89 · Post by **thecannonball89** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:04 pm

Does the top door have to be open to activate this dump hopper feature?

buzzer · Post by **buzzer** » Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:17 pm

yes, door has to be open, refil key turned