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Title: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: 4 Deuces on March 02, 2013, 03:44:01 PM I turned on one of my Game Kings yesterday and got a low battery message. I keep my machines off all the time until I play them. When I'm finished playing them, I turn them back off.
Does keeping the machine on extend the MPU battery life? :103- How long do I have to keep the machine on to benefit from the "charge"? :99- Thanks, :Dave :88- Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: Buzz on March 02, 2013, 04:32:45 PM Dave as I understand it, you would have to keep it on for a looooog time, NO charging system in a Game King.
I don't know why I have this idea, if I read it on this site, had a dream or vision or what, but I think keeping credits on a machine drains the battery. Case in point, I gave a lady a Bally 5500 tournament machine, 5500 are known to eat battery's in about a year, she has been playing that machine for over 3 years without a battery change. Tournament machine doesn't have any credits stored on it. Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: Firebird on March 02, 2013, 10:34:28 PM And you would be right buzz, if credits are left on a machine when it is turned off, the credits are just more information or data that the battery has to power in order to save the information. Hence - more information = more battery usage.
Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: CommTech on March 03, 2013, 02:55:21 AM I don't think it makes a difference if there are credits on the machine or not. The battery is used to retain all kinds of data, not just the credits on the machine.
Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: cowboygames on March 03, 2013, 03:04:11 AM I would think there wouldn't be a difference because zero is nothing but it's still a number that has to be remembered
Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: coorslight115 on March 03, 2013, 03:25:05 AM This is one no body will ever agree on.. But personal experience..ifthe machine has credits on it and you disconnect it from power the battery will die faster. This is my experience on the 20 machines I own over the past 10 years.
Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: 4 Deuces on March 03, 2013, 12:52:40 PM Well said Tim. Thank you ALL. :259- to all
Title: Re: Fact or Fiction - Does keeping the machine on extend MPU battery life? Post by: 4 Deuces on March 03, 2013, 01:23:28 PM Thinking about this a little more (I know, scary thought, right?), another thing I do is configure the she-ott out of the machines. I set all 13 denoms with a variety of every game, plus, each denom has a different set of max bets and payout percentage. I also set up every possible progressive as well and also have Bettor TITO configured too. There's nothing out-of-box on my games and it takes me about an hour to configure just one. So I wonder if all the configuration too takes away from the battery life? That's a lot for that little ole battery to retain.
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