Stupid question of the week

[pachinkojeff]

OK...the hopper has an overflow container and there are two metal "probes" that must sense when the overflow container is full of tokens. I assume this was to alert an attendant . I tried filling up overflow with tokens and thought I'd get an error code but...nada...I was still able to play. Sooooo...stupid question of the week...what is the function of the overflow/metal probes and how do they work?

[luckydog]

your were right, they may be disconnected on your machine

[emmadog]

On all of my arrange balls the lower switch in the coin tube lights a warning light telling both the customer and attendant that the machine is low. Sometimes in addition a coil is also activated that places a small metal arm in the path of an incoming token to divert it back out to the front.A couple of my Satomis also have a microswitch near the top of the coin tube. When tokens are at that point it trips and diverts tokens into the overflow jug.

[Moparformances]

the machines i have seen will divert tokens to the right of the hopper to an overflow once full..

[compirate]

The overflow system is for parlors that are either too small or don't want to invest in a token handling system (which I'm surprised I haven't seen on YJA yet ).
The game should error out, but perhaps it's a silent thing that only the parlor knows about. Don't want to give the players a reason to stop playing!

[yose]

On one of my machines it had the probes but didn't do anything until the tokens touched each probe and completed the curcuit and sounded the error noise.. I just unplugged the probe and removed it .