Expert: Rodger Knutson - 7/4/2011

Question
Hello Rodger my name is Aaron and my father in law has a Bally E-1212 machine that he bought in the early 90's. My question is when you turn the machine on it has the number 50 000 in the display, you can put your coins in and pull the handle. The wheels turn and immediately the tilt light comes on and the wheels keep spinning until you hit the reset button. I've checked the door and the only thing that I could see is there looks like coil that operates a pin that positively locks the door which doesn't seem to be working? Could this be the issue and also what does the key operated arm that hits the micoswitch on the right side of the machine below the handle do? The only reason I checked the door is from a previous answer you gave to someone else on this web site. Thank you for any direction you can give me.

Answer
Hi Aaron,

The door code of 50 000 means that the door has been open, this code goes away after next play. Now, you need to know what error code it tilting on. So, turn on the machine and reset it, close and lock the door because this will tell the machine that the door is closed and locked via the micro switch on the back of the door lock. Now when you play it, and it tilts, it will give you an error cold like 42 and flash with say a 1, then back to the error code what ever that is. the 1 in this case will be the amount of coins played. So it will go error code followed by the number of coins played back to the error code and so on. Once you open the door this error code is gone and replaced by the door open code of 50 which will stay there until the machine has one good play. That door coil with the pin is for the house to lock and unlock the machines door via in house wiring. It's like a dead bolt and only the casino can unlock it so the service tech can then use his key to open the door. This is not used in home and it's just dead, you can remove it if you like. The outside key lock on the handle side of the cabinet is called the jackpot lock, it's used for reseting hand pay jackpots and to access information like bookkeeping. Most Bally E's are using the original JP keys unless someone has changed it, and I have only seed it changed on one machine out of 200, so I bet it's a standard Bally JP "jackpot" reset key. I have a Bally JP reset key, if you would like me to have one cut for you I can take it to the key cutter and have one made, let me know. If you need a manual for this great little model E-1212, you can find them at:

http://jackpot7.freeyellow.com/page21.html

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