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Page 12-Tips and Tricks of the Trade

Dear Friends of Slot Tech Magazine,

Without a doubt, casino electronics can present re-


pair issues that are interesting and, at times, chal-
lenging. The truth is that the bulk of our repairs are
fairly routine. Heck, anything can be easy once some- Randy Fromm
one shows you what to do!
Randy Fromm's
This month we welcome a contribution from Nathan
Galloway with an easy fix for Kortek LCD monitors as Slot Tech Magazine
well as some Tricks and Tips from Vic Fotrenbach.
Thanks for your contributions, guys.
Editor
See you at the casino. Randy Fromm
Technical Writers
Vic Fortenbach, Nathan
Galloway, Chuck Lentine,
Pat Porath
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Slot Tech Feature Article

Kortek KT-LS221DSC-23 Monitor Repair


By Nathan Galloway

Ceronix monitor, and from a fellow technician, we


wouldn’t you believe it, this swap out the Kortek moni-
replacement has no touch tor with the top monitor
screen installed. With help from an adjacent Konami

I
t’s December 30th, one
day before New Year’s
Eve and my supervisor
wants games up for play.
This directive came straight
from management; they
want all the games up for
New Year’s Eve.

One of my tasks that day


was to fix the main monitor
on a Konami Podium. No
problem, I have a spare
Kortek monitor in the shop.
Just one problem, well it
wasn’t a problem until I Kortek AD board with surface mount capacitors.
replaced the main monitor
in my down Konami game
and tried to calibrate the
touch screen. Now I have a
bad touch screen on a
working monitor, but I need
a working touch screen.
With the holiday approach-
ing, there is not enough
time to order another touch
screen.

Since Konami Podiums


have dual monitors, both
with touch screens, I will
just swap the main monitor
with the top monitor. Now I
have a new problem. The
top monitor has already Kortek AD board with surface mount capacitors C802, C810, C812,
been replaced with a and C813 removed.

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Invitation to Attend TechFest 32
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Electronic Components and LCD Monitor Repair Ceronix LCD Monitor Repair
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LCD monitor repair is easy. This is
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Electronics repair is actually pretty monitors are more-or-less the same, it's
monitor repair at TechFest. During
easy, once you know how to test the nice to get the inside track on specific
this seminar, we will cover the theory
components. It often doesn't matter if of operation of LCD monitors and monitors from the manufacturers them-
you know anything at all about how you'll see just how simple they really selves.
something actually works in order to are. We will also cover circuit
fix it. You just look for bad parts and analysis of the electronics with an This is a "hands-on" session where
replace them. This seminar covers all emphasis on what fails and how it everyone will have the opportunity to tear-
of the discrete components commonly can be repaired in any casino's tech
down and rebuild an LCD panel as well as
found in electronic gaming machines. shop.
troubleshooting actual failures on LCD
We'll look at how they work, how they monitors in a "power-on" lab where you
1:15pm - 3:15pm
fail, and how to test them as accu- will actually make repairs. This is the
Touchscreens
rately, inexpensively and safely as Presented by 3M Touch Systems most fun thing we do at TechFest.
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the gear themselves.

February 2016 Slot Tech Magazine Page 5


Podium. I wish I could say
problem solved but the
main monitor on the adja-
cent Konami failed to work
after that machine was
rebooted. With this new
disappointment, I returned
to the tech shop with a
Kortek monitor to repair.

The situation may appear


bleak but I know how to
repair the Kortek KT-
LS221DSC-23 monitor.
Who do you think repaired
the original spare Kortek
monitor from the shop? At
that time, I was not aware
of a bad touch screen. The Kortek AD board with new aluminum electrolytic capacitors installed.
original issue was a bad AD The capacitors I replaced est-working section on the
board, which was rectified were: PCB. DC-to-DC conversion
by replacing four surface is another way to look at
mount capacitors. I did not C802 470uF 16v power supply regulation.
have any surface mount C810 220uF 16v We take a DC input and
organic polymer capacitors C812 220uF 16v run it through some sort of
in stock, so I used regular C813 220uF 16v “buck regulator.” Each little
aluminum electrolytic ca- DC-to-DC converter is run-
pacitors. Editor’s Note: This is ning at 150 kHz or so. It
where we have lots of fail- takes the DC input, chops
To remove the surface ures, regardless of manu- it up PWM style and spits it
mount capacitors, I used facturer or model. This is out. The longer the duty
Chip Quik and no clean the DC-to-DC conversion cycle, the higher the output
paste flux. After removing section and it is the hard- voltage. Then we hang an
the four capacitors, I
cleaned up the surface
mount pads before install-
ing the new capacitors in a
horizontal position. I re-
paired three bad Kortek
monitors from Konami
Podiums that week. All
three had bad AD boards
with those four bad capaci-
tors. It’s now more than
month later and all of the
repaired Kortek monitors
are still up and working on
the casino floor.

Page 6 Slot Tech Magazine February 2016


February 2016 Slot Tech Magazine Page 7
electrolytic filter capacitor
on the output and presto! 42%
We have a new DC output
voltage that is proportional 58%
to the duty cycle.

If, for example, we want a 5


vdc output, we simply take
the+12 vdc input from the
power supply and, with a
duty cycle of approximately
42% we get a 5 vdc output.
Sweet. As you can imagine,
the 150kHz switching
speed gobbles up these
output electrolytic filter
capacitors. When these
capacitors fail, the 150kHz
ripple wrecks havoc on the
system with unpredictable
symptoms ranging from
disappearing or distorted
columns or rows to total
blackout or even whiteout!-
STM
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February 2016 Slot Tech Magazine Page 9
Slot Tech Event

Slot Tech Training in St. Kitts

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.

Page 10 Slot Tech Magazine February 2016


Slot Tech Mini-Profile

Meet Vaughn Browne-Slot Manager


Royal Beach Casino-St. Kitts
technical supervisor. He
continued working in this
capacity over the next
three years when he was
tapped to become the slot
manager.

“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
the senior technician. In slot-techs.com
2009 he was promoted to

February 2016 Slot Tech Magazine Page 11


Slot Tech Feature Article

Tips and Tricks of the Trade


By Vic Fortenbach
To start the five minute ram power the machine and wait for
clear, power off the machine and it to load. With the logic door
open the logic box. open, advance to the SPC con-
Connect the piggy back board figuration option (it’s under the
with the RAM clear chips in- miscellaneous menu). Reset the
stalled to the logic board connec- SPC configuration options and
tor. Power up the machine and save them. Close the logic board
wait for the program to load. box and you’re good to go. All of

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!
make your job easier and some- out button and the fifth, top row
times a bit more fun. One tip I line button at the same time Aristocrat MK7 Quick RAM
love and I use frequently is being (there are six buttons on the top Clear
able to RAM clear a MK6 Aristo- row). Both of these buttons are
crat slot machine in less than usually flashing to assist you. The above trick also works for
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.
Aristocrat MK6 Location of EEPROM Chip
Five Minute Aristocrat MK6
RAM Clear

This trick is not for re-optioning


the game. It is intended to clear
an anomaly within the slot
machine and leave most of the
options untouched. If you need to
re-option the game to reset the
PAR or denom, the standard RAM
clear is required.

RAM clearing an Aristocrat MK6


machine requires the use of a
piggy-back board that is plugged
in to the connector on the logic
board. This piggy back board
contains the two RAM clear chips
that are needed to RAM clear the
game.
Page 12 Slot Tech Magazine February 2016
now has a control panel version
option. This option is usually Aristocrat MK7 EEPROM Chip
defaulted to the correct control
panel version for that theme; you
do not need to change it. Every-
thing else remains the same as
the MK6 RAM clear.

While we are on the subject of


Aristocrat, there is one more for
trick that can save you tons of
time when you have to replace a
bad logic board. The standard
steps for changing out the bad
logic board include replacing it
with a good one and having to
RAM clear and re-option the
replacement board. This takes a
lot of time.

This procedure can be shortened


significantly with this trick.
However, it only will work if the IGT Advantage (Acres) VFD
MK7 logic board replacement RAM Clear
bad board does not display an
complete.
error message like “EEPROM
Error.” In that case, you will About three or four times a
This trick also will work for the month, an IGT Advantage player
have to replace the logic board
older MK6 Aristocrat machines; tracking VFD (Vacuum Fluores-
and perform a standard RAM
but there is only one EEPROMS cent Display) comes in to the
clear.
are located on the main logic shop for repair with a tag that
board at location U77 just swap states ‘Stuck in Comm” or “gar-
On the Viridian logic board,
this chip with the replacement bage on display, not resetting.”
behind the white “logic door”
logic board chip. There are two Most of the time, these two
cherry switch and its bracket are
EEPROM sockets on the MK6 symptoms can be corrected by
two, eight-pin chips in sockets.
logic board; the second socket is using the same trick.
These chips are EEPROMs. While
at location U82, I have only seen
these chips are both the same
one chip used. Remember to With this trick, the VFD does not
physically, they contain different
reset the SPC configurations need to be able to display any
information such as the game’s
options and save them. messages. Just like super cap-
options and meters. Even when
the power is off and the chip has
been removed from the socket,
the information remains in the Location of RAM chips on IGT I game Logic Board
chip. To make logic board re-
placement easier, just swap
these chips from one board to the
other. On the old (bad) logic board,
just remove these two chips,
making sure you do not mix
them up. Then remove the two
chips from the new logic board,
install the chips from the old
logic board into the new logic
board. Be careful not to bend any
of the pins due to the cherry
switch bracket being in the way.
Popping out the cherry switch
from its bracket makes it a bit
easier. Power up the machine
and reset the SPC configuration
options. Don’t forget to save the
SPC options. All done. Aristocrat

February 2016 Slot Tech Magazine Page 13


ping the BEII board, you can also drain and the VFD ram to clear. logic board. It’s the fact that
super cap the VFD display to Once you have super capped the these chips lose their memory
clear its memory. The VFD ram VFD to clear the memory, con- that clears the error message.
does not hold vital information nect the VFD to a slot machine. Once you have removed both
like the asset or location num- The VFD will take longer to load, chips, just put them back into
bers like the BEII but it does hold since all of the displayed mes- the sockets the same way they
the downloaded messages, the sages as well as the other infor- were removed. One of the rumors
last few player card names and mation has been cleared. Once regarding the memory of these
other operating information used all the messages have been RAM chips is you have to leave
to display on the VFD. It’s this loaded and the BEII has initial- them out of the sockets for at
operating information that gets ized, the card reader bezel will be least five seconds. This is not
corrupted and will cause the VFD the normal red and the VFD true. Once the RAM chips have
to display the (Stuck in) COMM should be displaying its text been removed, the memory is
message and cause other display messages. If not, the VFD has erased. A second rumor is that
problems. There is a telltale sign other problems that cannot be you should put back the RAM
that the VFD ram is corrupted repaired by super capping the chips in their opposite locations
and needs to be cleared: The VFD. but since the RAM chips are
bezel around the card reader will identical, it really doesn’t matter
illuminate a very bright red. This IGT Igame Video Soft RAM in which locations you replace
red is brighter than the normal Clear the RAM chips. Be careful that
bezel red color that is seen when you do not bend any of the chips
the slot machine is idle. IGT manufactured the Igame pins when you replace the chips.
series of slot machines over 10 Re-install the logic board and
This trick works on all three years ago, using the older 80960 power up the machine. The error
types of VFD displays for the IGT processor. The logic board used message will still be displayed on
Advantage System: The small 5” in these machines is sometimes the screen until you push the
bar top, the standard 7” and the called a “960” board. Some of the cherry switches or close the
larger 7” large mount VFD dis- more frequent error messages main door. If the error message
plays. To super cap the VFD, that are displayed on the screen is still displayed then there are
locate the super cap. It’s at the include printer, coin-in and other problems that need to be
same location C39 on all of the meter tilts. Most of the time, repaired.
VFD displays, near the ribbon replacing or cleaning the assem-
cable connector. The super cap is bly noted in the displayed error The Igames are very similar to
a large round capacitor usually message will clear the error but the Game King series of ma-
black, or green in color. With the sometimes it does not. That is chines that used the same “960”
power off to the VFD, just use a 7 where this trick comes in handy. processor and logic board. These
inch long jumper wire. Touch the themes included multi games
negative end of the super capaci- A regular RAM clear will clear within the same cabinet which
tor and the other end of the most any tilt displayed as well as are mostly poker and keno type
jumper wire to ground. The all of the game’s options. Besides games. This soft RAM clear trick
negative end of the super cap will being time consuming, this is a does not work reliably on these
be the top metal of the super pain. Never fear! The soft RAM machines. The memory configu-
capacitor itself. If the super clear to the rescue. The soft RAM ration is different. Performing a
capacitor is mounted on its side, clear will clear most displayed soft ram clear on a Game King
touch the side of the super errors without changing any of machine will work to clear an
capacitor farthest from the ribbon the options. This trick is easy error but you will have to key
cable connector. The best place I and can be completed quickly. On chip the game to reset some of
have found for ground is pin 14 the “960” logic board are a series the options.
on the program EPROM. It’s the of chips, some EPROMS and two
end corner pin on the EPROM, others are RAM chips. The RAM I hope you can use these tricks
opposite the end of the EPROM chips are located at locations and tips to get a slot machine
with the notch. You will not U15, it’s labeled RAM 1 and U38, that is down, back online faster
damage the EPROM if you acci- it’s labeled RAM 2. It’s the RAM and with less effort than ever
dentally touch the jumper wire to chips that hold the error mes- before.
another pin. There are other sages. To clear the error, just - Vic Fortenbach
points you can touch the jumper remove both of these chips from v.fortenbach@slot-techs.com
wire to ground but this is the the logic board. Both of these
easiest. Hold the jumper on the chips are the same and unlike
super cap and ground for at least the Aristocrat EEPROMS mention
five seconds. This will give ample elsewhere, they will lose their
time for the super capacitor to memory when removed from the
“I can help you bring down the
cost of casino electronics repairs”
Randy Fromm

“OK. You asked and I listened. My new tech class eliminates obsolete CRT
monitor repair and the associated monitor repair lab. In just four or five days,
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