looking for help with a Cei hot slot
jbshocks:
so I made a mistake a bought a CEi hot slot. The machine was in cosmetically good condition and came with a manual and some spares. It had a battery code so I was gambling that it would be an easy fix. I easily solved the battery code only to get a series of various other codes. I worked through the remaining codes and fixed the remaining problems.
now the trouble it turns out it has a 7 bar Eprom installed but has 7's and bars for reels. If anyone is aware of how cei works they don't have stepper motors just little dc motors and then optical sensors that read little silver strips on the reel. It does a self test and determines it has the wrong reels for the eprom and barks at me. I got a few extra parts for it including 7 bar reels (don't match glass but ok) I install the reels but the silver strips are damaged an can't be read properly. So does anyone happen to have a 7's and bars eprom? I would guess unlikely. I do have the correct e prom for the good reels and glass but it won't boot. Has anyone ever pulled the code off a bad eprom and flashed to new chip and had it work? The other thing I am considering is to fix the silver strips on the 7bar reels, does anyone know if this would be some special material? I was considering using foil tape like on a heat duct. Anyone have any good ideas that might prevent this from being a 200 pound night light?
jbshocks:
Just to close out this thread in case someone comes along looking for help. First machine should be called PIA not CIE. I do have the manual and all codes so if anyone needs that info let me know. I suffered reel errors, game prom reel mismatch errors after I fixed all the errors from dirty connections. The reel errors are caused by the crazy system that this machine uses to detect the reel strip location. The reel must be clean and that optics must be clean. I cleaned both with simple green. The optics I wet a tooth pick with simple green and scrubbed the lens. If the silver tabs are damaged on the reel make new ones with that silver tape used to seal ducts. Not duct tap but foil tape. Make them exact. Now I have a coin comp problem that i think people on the board can help with. I will start a new post for that.
jbshocks:
Now that the machine is working I have played with it some more and read the manual on some of the programmable features. It has a programmable tournament mode where you can set up timed games for cash, credit or free play. I set it up that way and it works pretty cool. It seems like the machine is pretty advanced for its time.
knagl:
Any chance of a picture of your machine? :211- I'm not sure that I've ever seen a CEI slot on the casino floor.
Also, I think you've quickly become the resident :nlg- CEI expert. :89-
jbshocks:
Here is a tour of the CEI Hot Slot.
First a full view. Sort of an Austin Powers retro look.
Next my jackpot after 4 days of life.
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