Garfield's It's all about me! Bonus Wheel Slot Machine Topper

[stewie]

I need some help, can some one please help me figure out how to wire the led "pie" on my    "Its all about me!" Bonus Wheel Slot Machine Topper
front plexy glass please. It looks like there is a plug in place on the back of the led pie.  Any help is appreciated! 
I would love to hang this awesome looking sign up but need it lit up.
The "pie" says on the back...  MIKOHN GAMING CORP. 321-103-00  GARFIELD PIE   REV B
Thank you in advance!

[uniman]

What you need to do is add an led light chaser for the pie. I bought mine from ebay, here is a link to one, a little bigger than you need, but the same seller I bought from:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LED-lights-chaser-flasher-2-to-10-Circuit-8-A-C-8-to-24-VDC-12V-or-24-V-/271067882540?pt=US_Stage_Lighting_Single_Units&hash=item3f1ce7a42c

I got mine cheaper as it was smaller, maybe you could email them and ask? Think I paid around 45-50 bucks?

I put mine on top of a Universal slot machine. Garfield required 12vdc and my top box only had 110vac and 24vdc so I installed a 12v power supply. The red/white and black/white wires went directly to the power supply and the four wires from the pie to the led light chaser. The light chaser gets it power from the 12v power supply also. 

Hope this helps

[uniman]

The led light chaser is for the outer ring. The "pie", center area should have two leads, can't remember? But it is a 12vdc connection.
The outer ring has four and goes to the chaser.

Here are pics of mine

[stewie]

Yes this helps somewhat, thank you!
I'm not very knowledgeable with electronics and am learning everything as I go, so please bear with me.
The center of the pie has no wires coming out of it at all just the harness plug in, (the only wires connected to the pie are on the sides going to the led's on the front of the glass), is there somewhere I can get the wire harness? and how do i know how many Circuits i need for the chaser, and where do i find a 12v power supply?

I also have the Garfield topper (I've done all the research on how to get that working) now i just need the chaser for that.
Thank you for your help! Did i read that correctly that you have the same Bonus wheel that I do?

[stewie]

The photos help alot! 
I have the same topper and need the chaser for it, but i also have a second section of the game, ill half to upload some photos.

[stewie]

Here is the front of it.

[stewie]

Here is the back of the piece, the photos show the middle plug in the pie, and the other shows how the pie is plugged into the front led chasers

[uniman]

Ahhh, totally different than mine.
Sorry, can't help you with that.

Thanks for posting pics, maybe some else can help.

[stewie]

Thank you for you help anyways. I have the same topper as you, but would like to get the other piece working and make some sort of cabinet for them

[stewie]

Any one have any experience with electrical that might be able to help please! or with any experience with this piece!!!

[deuce23]

can you post a closer picture of the center connector and one of the connectors around the outside?  How many wires are in each connector on the outside?  I'm guessing each connector feeds 6 of the leds and 2 pieces of the pie.  Can you remove the screws and see the back side of the leds?

[stewie]

Here are the small side plugs on the back that go's to the front led's that show on the circle on the front.

[stewie]

Is the big wire a ground?

[stewie]

Here is the main plug that is in the center of the board, and the reverse side of it, the reverse side has Alot of tiny led's on it.

[stewie]

Here is two more photos hope they help!

[deuce23]

The braided cable is to ground the metal parts and all the little leds are what light up the pieces of the pie.  It's hard to see the traces in the pictures.  Can you take a higher resolution picture of one entire piece of the pie? It looks like there is probably 3 leds wired in series.  Need to see more detail to be sure.

Brian

[stewie]

Yes i can. ill halfto do it tonight after work. thank you for your help sofar.

[stewie]

Here is the top of the pie, the back side

[stewie]

The bottom half back side

[stewie]

here is the front, or lighted side

[stewie]

this is the front center of pie, I hope the new photos help, please let me know if you need more, (im a laymen so don't use to big of words lol)

[stewie]

one more lol

[stewie]

the whole pie

[deuce23]

The green arrow points to the traces that are negative.  Do each of those go to separate pins on the center connector?

The red arrow points to the positive.  It looks like it loops all the way around.  Can you trace that to another pin in the center connector?

[CommTech]

I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish ... Do you want ALL of the LED's just to light up and stay on?
If so, you are probably going to need a fairly large power supply to handle the current draw. 
You must also determine the proper voltage for these LED circuits.  Unless there are voltage regulators on that board (which I did not see any from the pictures), I highly doubt it will be a 12 Volt supply. 
More likely 5 or 3 Volts.
You will also need to properly parallel multiple circuits to get them all to light up.

Without a schematic or wiring diagram, this will take some detailed circuit tracing (with a multimeter) and testing to figure out.

Not something I would recommend to someone who is not comfortable basic electronics.