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I screwed up. I put a LED bulb in for denom. legend - 1st pic.    Got smoke coming off board in 2ND pic. Green light comes on board.
comes up on display - door open m - then coin-in-jam. I know it's not a door problem.
Do I need a new board or what?
Let it up to me to screw up a good machine.
Any help will be appreciated.
Ford

Problem solved. This old bastard fried the board.
Ford
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Wow, that sucks......... sounds like something I would do

more than that, it is something I have done.

Why would doing that burn the board ?
Ford

http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=8337.0 (http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=8337.0)

Please read this before moving forward...

Rob

Thank Rob
I swaped out the 9 line display board & that is what I burned out.
I made it multi denom. & made a legend for the 4 denom. & it wasn'y bright enough so I thought put in a LED.

As pointed out, this has been well covered.

Using an LED in that socket per se will not damage the board.

Some of the flat base LEDs have one wire on each side that does not wrap around the bottom of the base, and some have wires that wrap so that there appear to be two wires on each side. That type shorts out the contacts in the socket -- just as if you put a screwdriver in there. Shorting the denomination light contacts burns out the seven segment LED board.

Either use LEDs with non-wrapping wires, or cut off the second half each of the two wires so that they don't wrap around before installing the LED. In practice, it's very easy to confuse the two styles unless one looks very closely at the LED's base.


P.S. Always turn off the power before replacing this bulb, whether it's an analog or LED, since any inadvertent short during replacement would cause the same damage.

some have wires that wrap so that there appear to be two wires on each side.

I looked close & that is what the problem is.
Ford

Received board today from Leisure Time Slots.
Now put it in tonight & see if it works.
Thanks Randy
Ford

Is it up and running? :71-

It's up & running. Thanks to Randy for the board. Now I'm ready for relation to come & play.
Put $1000.00 credit on each machine that are not free play.
Merry Christmas to all.
ford

It will be if you let your relations cash out all those credits.  :97- :97- :97-  I might even have to make you a member of the family and invite myself over for eggnog. Of course, I'll have to make sure that all of your hoppers are operating properly... :79-  :233-

It's great that Randy was able to get you the board in time for your family to enjoy the slots over the holiday.  :259- karma to Randy.  :3-


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Want to let everyone know I got my old board is fixed. Thanks to coorslight115 & his son. They did a nice job on it.
I want to make sure coorslight gets credit. I made a donation to NLG on behalf of me & on behalf of coorslight.  :136-

THANKS !!!!  and glad to help a fellow member when I can! :89- :89-

If anyone else has made this mistake  :279- :279-and have not thrown out the board yet :60- ....PM me for shipping address to get free estimate to repair like Ford's.  :3- :3- :88-

I have it running for several hrs. & it is still working.

Open heart surgery picture of the blown out trace on the second layer of the board!  Click on picture and move around, very high detail!

Awesome pic coors!  :3-

If you think the pic is something , the work is really unbelievable. Hard to believe that he can do it.

Sorry Ford,
               Do I have permission to release the medical records :200- :208-

Do I have permission to release the medical records

Coors,You can release the records since I signed the release before surgery.
Ford

First pic show trace repaired and second shows insulation in place before folding the flap back over and sealing. Just for scale that trace in less than 1/8 inch long.