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February 2016 Slot Tech Magazine Page 9
Slot Tech Event
I
had another “dream
gig” in January. I held a
small class for the slot
techs at the Royal Beach
Casino in St. Kitts. It’s a
beautiful casino and it was
a real pleasure to have the
opportunity to train with
Above: Master Carpenter and Slot
their extraordinary crew.- Tech Charles Buchanan poses with
STM the portable whiteboard he whipped up
just for the class. He also built all of
Left to right:Delvin Richardson, the slot bases in the casino. Beautiful
work with embedded LED lighting! I
Charles Buchanan , Emaric Maynard, can see where it is very valuable to
Kevis Richards and Mark Kelly have an in-house carpenter.
“I believe in empowering
staff and help making
Kevis Richards during one of our dreams come true,”
“hands-on” sessions. This is the commented Mr. Browne.
semiconductor lab.
“Working in this industry
S
Below: Delvin Richardson and
lot Manager Vaughn has opened my eyes to so
Randy Fromm in the casino.
Browne started many new and fascinating
working at the Royal things.”
Beach Casino in 2002 as
a casino technician. By
year six, he had become Visit the website at
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H
aving been a slot techni- the other machine options
cian for the past 15 years, The on screen instructions will remain unchanged. It’s a good
you learn a lot of tips and indicate, to clear the SRAM practice to review the options
tricks, some from older, seasoned (SRAM is static RAM, it’s the “just in case” but I have never
technicians and others from just battery backed up memory that had any options change with this
watching vendor technicians. holds the options) you will need to procedure. All done! RAM clear in
Using these tips and tricks can push and hold the take win/cash less than five minutes!
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times a bit more fun. One tip I line button at the same time Aristocrat MK7 Quick RAM
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able to RAM clear a MK6 Aristo- row). Both of these buttons are
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five minutes. Not only can the Pushing these buttons simulta- the Aristocrat Viridian MK7 slot
RAM clear be completed very neously will clear the SRAM machines but there are three
quickly but most of the options memory and advance you to a differences: There is no piggy
never change. All of these tips screen asking you to specify back board. You replace the game
and tricks are part of the slot which version of clear chips are theme flash card with the RAM
machine and have been designed being used. At this point, do not clear flash card instead. The
into the logic board and assem- change any of the version num- RAM clear flash card MUST be
blies. Sort of a secret way to do bers. Power off the machine and the most current version for that
something that no one wanted to remove the piggy back board. Re- machine theme. The screen
tell you. All of these tips and
tricks are just procedures and
short cuts that work.
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