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Something to add about the battery when you replace it..... fly-wire it off the Epoch board, and tape it somewhere to the inside of the cab.

Phone wire from places like wilco's is ideal for this.

Hi thank you for bringing the battery concern to my attention, I have checked my machine and the battery is starting to grow that fuzzy white stuff :s (looks like I will be buying that new battery then), luckily it appears only to be growing on the one side and has not leaked anywhere. I will get on this asap as suggested, I have searched around and realised that I need to desolder the battery, so I will be needing to get a solder sucker as from a quick google searching using desoldering braid is not adviced due to possibility of damaging the PCB. Will be practising my solder/desoldering skills over the weekend then.

By fly-wire do you mean soldering a connector to the PCB for the battery to attach to - e.g. like for a 9v battery, you could use a 9v battery connector:



I guess I can use 2 strips of some normal thin wire cable and solder the one end to the PCB, the other to the new battery? Also can the weak vinegar solution be used instead of isopropanol for cleaning the PCB, or is the vinegar used only to remove the damage done by the leaking battery?

Thanks for the replies todd1970 and stanmarsh14, the problem was something stupidly simple, I needed to put the lower case door on so it holds a switch which I thought was just a reset button :facepalm: Problem fixed and the machine is working perfectly - pays out and meters rotate .

@ stan chears for the link to another battery, may have to be picking one of thoes up, as after turning the machine off then back on from the mains it makes a loud error noise displaying memory cleared. I was looking for a CMOS type battery (was expecting the type thats on motherboards in desktop computers), I guess this needs replacing as it gives me that error on startup and needs me to reset date/time. Thanks for the info much appreciated, any links you would reccomend for getting replacement bulbs (presuming 12v 10mm wedge), I was also looking into seeing if if it would be worth my while to replace the bulbs with LED versions, but the only ones I could find were cluster (3x) LED bulbs on ebay at £2.90 each!