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Laugh _
It’s funny how often timing works in real-life to consistently
coincide with the Internet & My Webpages!!
I am just
finishing the first-section of my “Trouble-Shooting 101” page,
which is on the “stepper units” and I decide to fire up my Surf
Club for the first time, and “boom” it immediately has a
scoring-problem involving the “Scoring Unit” which is a
“stepper-module” _ Next, this same day, Hemelsoet writes in asking for a bit
of help with the Night Club he just purchased.
Even Cooler _
Both stories “gel” because they are about two guys who hardly
know anything about the technology and fix their bingos by simply just
sticking their noise into the machines and start poking around _ laugh!!
And this is
something I highlight in my Trouble-Shooting Guide, where I stress that 80%
of the
problems with your bingo can be found by just looking around, using a good
– well-lit – visual inspection!!
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~ My Surf Club
Issue ~
Well I fired
up my Bally Surf Club and I knew from experience it was going to be easy to
win, this being one of the Hold-em Bingos, but when I started getting 600+
credits on every 3-in-line combo - “Every game” with the first
three wins being back-to-back……
I knew
something was amiss _ Laugh!
My first game
won with the 18,10,2 on the main-card and paid 700-Wins
 
My second game
won with the right-super-card on 3,9,13 and paid 366-Wins
My third game
won with the 8,16,6 on the main-card and paid 632-Wins
Well, I wanted
to stop playing, but I didn’t (laugh) and I found a few more
anomalies that could be associated with other modules and/or problems _
Like the 12,14,22 on the left-super-card not paying and the 22,15,20 on the
main card also not paying……
Anyhoo _ In my
follow-up email to my Rene telling him that his timing was perfect, since I
had a Scoring Problem too _ I started a good look at all the
“steppers” in my Surf Club and found that my “Scoring
Unit is trashed – Wow!!
A complete
missing rivet and a damaged wiper blade, clearly the reason this bingo was
taken off-line, stored for
45 years, and
sold to me for $40 bucks _ Laugh!!
It looks as
though the “stepper just stalled at one time and just drove massive
current through that pipe”
Literally
frying the circuit until the fuses popped to save everything _ Just so you
know there is an electronic law called “I-squared-R”
Where Power
equals I-squared-R and it is serious. Where I-squared-R losses can generate
an amazing amount of power
and fry things
that should never fry / melt-down / or catch on fire, but they
do……
Summary: I
have a scoring problem and start suspecting the Scoring Unit, I know that visual
inspection is important,
so I poke my nose into the bingo and
start looking around, I suspect there is more than one issue maybe
involved,
but I stop as
soon as I find a problem that needs addressed _ especially since it a major
issue needing fixed………
More
importantly: Where Keith shows us that “making sure the wipers have
good, solid, contact with the buttons” and stresses that
“this is
critical” _ He is absolutely correct: “R” stands for
“resistance” and if you have a poor
“wiper-to-rivet” contact the circuit
will generate
“huge huge” power there and damage things _ “I
squared” x “resistance” _ “I” = Current
– Damn!
Current (and
therefore power _ Ohm’s Law) is the killer _ It will kill you and the
modules _ So again, be very careful!!
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