Fruit Machine Rebuild

I bought a non-working fruit machine on eBay, for not lots of money. I'm sure most people have bought something silly or different from eBay at one time or another.

After looking into even compontent inside the fruit machine, I found that most of the were still in working order.

The reels, payout, pay in, buttons, bulbs, etc.

The items that weren't working, or didn't seem to be, was the logic board, and power supply.

Thats when it struck me to use a standard computer to run it from, use digital logic to run it.

I set about trying to reverse engineer the various components, to see if they would be useful or not.

The coin mech accepts 10p, 20p, 50p, £1. Unfortunately only the £1 coin and 20p are still in current circulation. Luckily you can disable any of the coins you don't need.

The payout mechanism was based on an electromagnet. Which would have been easy enough to use, except that it required 48V and several amps to trigger it. I decided that this would be too dangerous to use, as well hard to power without specialist.

I found a coin hopper on eBay again, that was a lot safer and easier to use. 24V and a peak of about an amp. It also had the added benefit of being faster, ( 4 coins a second ), than the electromagnet.

Pretty much repair and rebuild the insides of this 1986 "Each-way Nudger Mk2" JPM Fruit machine, so that it becomes playable.

It is undecided at this time whether to change the outside design of the fruit machine or to leave it as is. This will be decided after the machine can do basic functions like spin the reels, accept money and payout.

Hopefully this information will benefit someone and provide a central point for documenting the project.