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[Mattb]

It's rubbish i'm afraid. Was in said Wetherspoons only a week ago in a peak evening time, nothing was different at all. Didn't notice any 'wires' or anything, but i'm afraid that's absoltue bollocks.

[fruitypie]

It's rubbish i'm afraid. Was in said Wetherspoons only a week ago in a peak evening time, nothing was different at all. Didn't notice any 'wires' or anything, but i'm afraid that's absoltue bollocks.

I agree. But why would you notice any wires,cables etc. When you didnt know about this ? You wouldnt notice as you was playing. So it needs someone checking it out me thinks. the orignal thread creator of this is very defensive when i also said what a load of bollocks.

[betchrider]

Ive looked round the backs of machines before and the only thing is a midas(and of course the plug)

[fmlad2002]

I have seen a device - think it was a 9 pin DIN which was wired to lower the % payout, it was shown on tv a few months back on the hustler.

Going back to fiddling the %, seems anything is possible now days, proving it is another matter.

[Spyder]

just to get this in before its mentioned, there is no way on earth the employees could set up this "scam" wetherspoons have quarterly audits from a external auditor, staff from all the other pubs and their head office do mystery shops on random wetherspoons,

they couldnt track everyone down to pay them off, if they did then they wouldnt take any money from whatever they were doing... they'd have to pay leisure link counter person and whoever changed the machines too..


i used to work in a spoons, and they had all the machines down one wall, there was a "network" as far as they were on an isolated circuit and had a master on/off switch behind the bar on the light switch row, so the machines could be turned off at closing time without having to move them away from the wall... this did not require any wires going into the actual machines.. just an extention lead. lol

so, this is either a midas/unheard of equivilent on "test" or just made up

photos etc to follow?

[mr lugsy]

case dismissed .

[aaamusements.co.uk]

It is possible to do, with a broken open percentage key, a piece of 2 core wire, a switch and a soldering iron.

Is it happening? No.

[aaamusements.co.uk]

It is possible to do, with a broken open percentage key, a piece of 2 core wire, a switch and a soldering iron.

Is it happening? No.

Sorry, bit late there with that post there Mr L... ops:
Managed to miss your last post.

[Barry Trotter]

I think you'll find the wire in question is for a system called MIDAS, which is used (amongst other things) to alert the backroom staff when the door opens, the machine errors, etc...

They can not lower the percentages any lower than 72% (legally, and also the manufacturers do not give an option of any lower than this), and remotely changing the percentage at different times of day, whilst possible, would be pointless and in my experience has rarely, if ever, been tried.

[Spyder]

It is possible to do, with a broken open percentage key, a piece of 2 core wire, a switch and a soldering iron.

Is it happening? No.

but doesnt the software of mpu4 and above reject a <71% key?

[aaamusements.co.uk]

It is possible to do, with a broken open percentage key, a piece of 2 core wire, a switch and a soldering iron.

Is it happening? No.

but doesnt the software of mpu4 and above reject a <71% key?

Yes, (well less than 70%) but the point is that you could have 84% displayed on the machine and knock it down to 70% when the place is busy for instance.
Chipping below 70% is a whole different discussion...