Progressive display (Getting Started Tips)

[jay]

Unless you are trying to make something work in a platform that it is not designed for then its pretty much plug and pray......

The Mini-Photons (Behind the glass progressive) are a board that simply plug into a small square connector. This covers you for power and everything else.
Using the 731 chip you can set the values just from the self test button. IF you are running a newer 1271 you need to use a Set 90 to set the values.
In my opinion these are pretty boring as a progressive as they just a have value, don't flash, change colors or display messages. I use them as a second level progressive.

The Con1 simply uses 2 wires to connect to the mother board of each S+ (not the removeable MPU board). There is a 4 pin connector - the pins are Coin, Gnd, Data, Not used.
Depending on what model of the CON1 you get you will have been 5 and 33 pins. The end pin is the common and it runs to the GND of each slot. Pin 1 then goes to the Coin pin on slot 1, Pin 2 goes to the Coin pin on slot 2 etc etc.  (See my diagram up top). The only power here is the AC wall wart that you use to power the Con1.
To program the slot you need to use the S+ menu to choose progressives and then tell it that it has a LINK controller.
To program the con1 you need a PC, serial cable and the program called PSP.

The display controllers (LED4 / LED 5)  connect to the CON1 via a 2 wire cable. There are some dip switches on these units that allow you to change what is displayed. You can force messages only, values only (or any 1 of the 4 possible progressive values) or put it in the standard mode and it then takes its info from the CON1. There is a good manual available for this so no real surprizes. The controller board sits on top of its power supply, Standard AC plug for these. No power adapters.

My massive 2 x 8 sign was a bit more tricky as it uses 4 power supplies and a ton of ribbon cable but still not rocket science.