On our machines - and I assume most if not all 70s - the BE motor runs during the shut-off timeout.
I started thinking about the merits of this. My main concern is that if kids wander down the lane, and front counter staff turn off the machine (in the attempt to 'save' the kids), the BE remains running. Only if you run to the back of the machine (or climb up behind the curtain wall) can you reach a switch to shut it off entirely.
Even the mask switch (which is there for safety purposes surely) does not shut off the BE motor (I think it does on XLis - is that true?).
So this got me thinking, what if we change the chassis so that the BE motor shuts off immediately (but keep the S/Pik running during timeout).
It appears (I haven't tried) that you can do this by simply moving one wire from M pin 9 to M pin 11.
I was trying to think through all the ramifications of this change.
I don't think early shut off is a problem, since the lane computer keeps the machine running a little while after the last frame.
It's possible that if the lane computer shut off delay is short enough, that not all pins will end up back in the bins. I'm not sure if pins not in the bins would really matter (though I'm wondering if pileups could be caused by that), but our lane computer delay is long enough anyway.
Thoughts/comments anyone? Any issues you see with this?
Thanks,
Andrew.
I started thinking about the merits of this. My main concern is that if kids wander down the lane, and front counter staff turn off the machine (in the attempt to 'save' the kids), the BE remains running. Only if you run to the back of the machine (or climb up behind the curtain wall) can you reach a switch to shut it off entirely.
Even the mask switch (which is there for safety purposes surely) does not shut off the BE motor (I think it does on XLis - is that true?).
So this got me thinking, what if we change the chassis so that the BE motor shuts off immediately (but keep the S/Pik running during timeout).
It appears (I haven't tried) that you can do this by simply moving one wire from M pin 9 to M pin 11.
I was trying to think through all the ramifications of this change.
I don't think early shut off is a problem, since the lane computer keeps the machine running a little while after the last frame.
It's possible that if the lane computer shut off delay is short enough, that not all pins will end up back in the bins. I'm not sure if pins not in the bins would really matter (though I'm wondering if pileups could be caused by that), but our lane computer delay is long enough anyway.
Thoughts/comments anyone? Any issues you see with this?
Thanks,
Andrew.
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