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Hello,

I'm looking for a manual schematics for a game king price is right slot. I have the bonus wheel from this game and need wiring diagrams to get it to work as a standalone unit.

Thanks

If you're just looking for the operating voltage the stepper motor casing should show it. Those s hematics will probably be very hard to come by, but you might be able to run it through a scrap printer circuit board using the old "feed" circuitry. It being a stepper motor you can't simply put 12 or 24 volts to it through a switch and make it work and only the original software will have the trigger during a bonus round to run it. The other option would be to replace the stepper motor with a standard motor and momentary switch to spin it for effect

I sent this to an electrician friend of mine and he stated without schematics and a lot of trial and error, it would be tough.

Just trying to get power to this thing is becoming more difficult than I imagined.

It's a stepper motor, so it operates on a pulse rather than a direct power supply like your common appliance motors, that's why I suggested the printer circuit board with feed circuitry. The feed button on a printer supplies a pulse to the stepper motor to advance it the same as reel motors in a slot or in this case the stepper motor in your wheel. If you can find the right size standard dc motor with the right size shaft for your wheel then a momentary switch just to start it spinning and let it wind down on it's own would work

First off I want to thank you for the insight so far. You have been most helpful.

I don't think the printer circuit board is going to be the way to go.

So to summarize, (and I'm not familiar with electricity here) I should bypass the circuitry on the wheel board, then hook up a 3rd party motor with a momentary switch and install a shaft to spin the wheel? I'm not sure if there is already a shaft there for the wheel.

The problem is that without schematics, I don't know the proper voltage for the motor.

If you can find a sufficiently powerful enough standard DC motor to replace the existing stepper motor then you can run the proper voltage to it through a momentary switch and spin the wheel on demand. The new motor would need to have the proper size shaft on it to match the size of the hole in the wheel. A hopper motor and gear box might work if there's room for it in the wheel housing. It will be a project for sure, but how much of a project will depend on your abilities or sources of knowledge.

The million dollar question is how do I find out the proper voltage necessary without schematics?

I suppose just trial and error with several different motors?

If you replace the motor with a upper motor then it's going to be 24v. Anything else will tell you on the motor casing what it needs. If you can use a hopper motor then at least you know the machine already has source voltage available for use. Depends on what you get, but look for something that uses either 12 or 24 volts to help yourself out a bit

I know it's tough to say for sure without seeing the unit in person, but do you think the lights can be controlled via the 24 volt motor?

Control won't be tough to work out, but voltage is probably only 6.3 VDC, not 24