PE Plus Upright IBA Keno Pen Harness

[jay]

The pen is a 2 wire connection + 1 fiber and as we know the mechanical aspect of it makes these 2 wires simply a switch......so I had no fear in swapping it while the power was on.

I do however have some good news to report. I got it working.  

1. The wire (ground strap) that is connected to the mounting hole with the trace on it needs to be grounded to the chasis.
2. The metal collar bolt for the pen also needs to be grounded. I presume when you drill a hole and mount it,  a natural ground is achieved.
3. The U21 likes to have the highspeed Opticoupler. I bought two types and both work but the highspeed one seems to be more reliable.
    This is Jameco part 113911 @ 0.69c each.
    The other one part 1548131 seems to like to have a much more signficant ground and sometimes I have to select a number twice to get it to register.

I leave tomorrow morning for my next rotation..... if you have any more problems they will need to wait 17days until I am home LOL.

[Brianzz]

I do however have some good news to report. I got it working.  

Oh yeah? How? 

[jay]

I accidently posted too early. See previous post.

[Brianzz]

 

well, at least you're persistent or is that consistent 

[jay]

My parents used to use words like encorageable and autistic..... for many years I thought they were encouraging me to draw..... then someone pointed out that I was wearing hockey equipment but not playing hockey, none of the other hockey players on our "special" bus seemed to notice.....   

Most of the voices went away right after the ailen abduction, albiet the tinfoil hat does help too if you don't mind the odd jolt of lightning every once and again when it rains. 

I actually only have about 4hrs into this project, finding the time in 20min blocks was the hard part. Just too much going on this time of year.....

I really do want to thank JIM who pointed out the U21 and Jim S for all of the ideas. Of course the rest of the gang was here encouraging ???? me along...

[stayouttadabunker]

I glad you got it going! Good job!
I wonder if the fix was because of the U21 opticoupler or the grounds...or both...

Still, I'm happy the pen's working...can we see a video of the machine in action 17 days from now?

[knagl]

Hey hey, congratulations on solving the mystery and getting it to work!   

[StatFreak]

Great detective work Jay.   
I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures when you get back from your rotation. Try not to rotate too quickly!

[Mikalnm]

Hey Guys!  Please dont forget about me.  I still can not get mine to work.  Remember, Jays superboard and software came out of a working keno machine.  I am trying to convert my multi-poker superboard to run keno.  I have tried 3 pens, 4 boards, and everything is well grounded.  I get the 0/1 toggle on selftest and my 6n137 is inserted properly in U21.  Any chance there is a jumper or switch or anything that needs to be changed on my board?

[jay]

No jumpers need to be changed. I compared my board to my other multipoker superboard.
In your picture you have 3 boards on your belly door, the center one with the ground strap is like mine with the ground strap.

I connected that, the coller from my light pen to the braided ground strap on the bottom of the belly door.

Pull the jameco spec sheet on the 6n137 that I used and compare it to yours.

[Mikalnm]

OK Thanks will do. 

No jumpers need to be changed. I compared my board to my other multipoker superboard.
In your picture you have 3 boards on your belly door, the center one with the ground strap is like mine with the ground strap.

I connected that, the coller from my light pen to the braided ground strap on the bottom of the belly door.

Pull the jameco spec sheet on the 6n137 that I used and compare it to yours.

[jay]

I know I had stated that my set supposedly came from a working Keno machine but the observation that we both made is that mine did not have the U21
chip that is required to make this work ..... so I think we are both working from the same point.

[CaptainHappy]

Jay,

Off topic, but you gotta tell about the current CAT Avatar!!! Is it a suicide bomber??

CH

[stayouttadabunker]

lol...He used to have cute little kitty's...now they turned into suicide bombers???

[Mikalnm]

Hello All,
Thanks for everyones help.  My machine is up and working great!  I finally got the proper 6n137.

[jay]

Ok - cough up the details. Was it the same 6N that I found to work or what did you do different ?

[Mikalnm]

Hello, The 6n137 that made my machine work is marked 0825.  Now that I have it working, I find the game silly for home use.  Anyway, thanks again for your help.  Do you have any non-poker games for the PE+?  I think I will try the Red White and Blue game next if I can find it .
Michael

[jay]

I have only black jack.
It doesn't require a super board.
It supports progressive contributions but you can never win the progressive.

I also have STUD poker which is rather boring as you are really just betting on the turn of the last card and you can use the double down option on most games for the same thrill.

Stolistic has created a MAME version of the PE+

If you are not familar with MAME - it stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
Typically you use it to play all of the orginal arcade games like Galaga, Centipede and Pacman on a PC
These are the real deal as they use the ROM files from the orignal games.

I have a MAME cabinet with 23000 games on it. Many are duplicates of each other like 1941 is avaialble in about 12 different languages. Then there is 1942 in the same 12 languages etc.
When I say cabinet this is all the real arcade controls wired into the computer so this is about as close to a real arcade as you can get without buying an actual PacMan cabinet. I dont know about you but I don't have room for my 50 favoriate games.....(or at least that is what my wife tells me). 

In any respect Jim has written a couple of his own PE+ games
The first was 3 card poker and the latest is a horse racing game.
I am not sure if its available for download. He has posted some screen shots on this site.

However if it is downloadable you should be able to burn it, and play it on the PE+

 

[stayouttadabunker]

I leave tomorrow morning for my next rotation..... if you have any more problems they will need to wait 17days until I am home LOL.

I glad you got it going! Good job!
I wonder if the fix was because of the U21 opticoupler or the grounds...or both...

Still, I'm happy the pen's working...can we see a video of the machine in action 17 days from now?

We're still waiting for the video clip of the keno pen in action man...!
It's waay past 17 days!!!