Advice on grounding my machine

**srwebman** · 02-18-2009, 10:24 AM

For safety's sake, I would like to replace the two-prong power cord that came with my pachislo with a grounded, 3-prong cord, and I need a little advice.

1) Is it possible to re-use the connector on the end of my existing cord. I know there is often a way to release the wires from inside for replacing, and I would rather do this than strip and solder if I can avoid it.

2) my existing connector has two different green wires coming out of it. One is solid green and is grounded to a screw inside the case. One has a yellow stripe, and was just cut and left there.

Thanks.

**compirate** · 02-18-2009, 10:59 AM

The cut wire used to be connected to the parlors grounding system.

The ground system in pachinkos is to remove static charge from the movement of the balls. Several places within the machine are metal plates that the balls touch as they go past. If you look in the shooter tray, there is a metal plate under where the balls go in a single file line before they dissappear into the frame. The lines are also connected to other metal parts of the frame. You should be able to crimp a connector on the end of a ground wire on your plug and connect it behind any screw on any metal part, easiest would be the one where that green wire connects

**srwebman** · 02-18-2009, 11:04 AM

Thanks compirate. This is a pachislo, not a pachinko, so no shooter tray to look in .

Any thoughts on re-using the existing connector?

**compirate** · 02-18-2009, 11:17 AM

That's what I get for not reading!

The same system is used to ground the static charge in moving metal tokens.

You can still crimp on an eye connector and put it behind any of the screws that hold metal parts. You could also get a wire tap crimp connector.

It should be possible to remove that cut wire with it's end out of the connector, you have to look in back (where the wires come out), figure out how the catch works, take a pin and release it while pulling on the wire, but your still going to have to remove the end and put it on another wire (they usually don't like being used more than once) and finding another may prove difficult unless it's something from Molex.

**TilionMtl** · 02-18-2009, 02:20 PM

well compirate answered two at once, I was wondering what this metal track and the metal plate on one of the side of the upper tray was used for.

At first I thought maybe this is a way to know if the front tray is full, the track with balls would make a link connection with an other metal plate inside the opening when the balls are paid and come to the front tray, so when there's too much balls in the tray, up to the opening the link is done by the balls and the machine know the tray is full, but it is now make sense, thank-you compirate.