Making a machine cyclic

**Lazarus** · 07-26-2005, 09:04 PM

The gladiator I have I made cyclic with Arby's help. The spent balls go back into the lower bin, Not dropping out the back. I have unhooked the plug that goes to at least one of the ball counters. There seams to be three that look the same but i only have to unhook one of them. This then makes it not pay out with not having to keep putting balls into the top hopper. I have went though one bonus round without having to fill the top hopper. Just with one hand take balls from the lower tray and move them to the upper try to shoot. Is this what I was supposed to do Arby? I don't mind not getting payouts but is there a way to hook up a counter to tell me how many balls I have won? And The machine will remember how many payouts it is supposed to pay if you run low on balls from the upper hopper. If I would put the machine back to normal operation as far as plugging in the ball counter again will it remember thousands of payouts and take fifty years to pay them out? How is it working with the newer machines that come cyclic? Are they paying out at all and does it count the balls won?

**Tulsa** · 07-26-2005, 09:07 PM

Until we figure out a way to make a counter work on counting balls won and shot, cyclic is going to be simply running the balls though. This is the only down side to cyclic. We have been researching a workable counter but nothing is functioning as we all would like.

**Lazarus** · 07-26-2005, 09:22 PM

So what I did is what it means to make a cyclic or is there something else I need to do?

**arbycoffee** · 07-26-2005, 09:47 PM

The balls should come out in the shooters tray, the top tray, so you don't have to handle balls at all.

**Lazarus** · 07-26-2005, 09:57 PM

I took everything off the back of the machine. It would require a lot of rework if not impossible to get the balls to go into the top try. I would have to go through some steel framing and not all the balls would be diverted to the top try. As it is now I just have to pull out one shaped block of wood and plug in the ball counter again and it works like normal. If someone has a gladiator of machine that uses same case and has there machine cyclic of makes it cyclic and does it differently let me know.