new sea story error or not and alarm

[The13bats]

Several months ago at a coastal flea mart I picked up a "New Sea Story" it was in very nice shape with zillions of balls and oddly late in the day,
the fellow was happy to take for 30.00 for it, at that price I didnt play it but it was plugged in on.

I just got around to playing it, when I try to reset it, it blars the alarm but off and on again and it's good, no error code or is it,
the led display for error had the single dash moving in a figure "8" is that normal for some machines?

I play to fever and it maxed out the payout balls quickly, I had to refill and refill to get it past payout,
SO in a parlor how do they keep the payout tray full enough to pay out what must be 1000's of balls of a big jackpot?

Many thanks,
Cheers,
P.

[Chumsize]

Having an alarm of some sort during reset (as it clears memory, reloads program, etc) is normal. Not sure about the single-dash-figure-8 thing... but it sounds like everything is fine, so maybe that's correct. Does it stop at any point?

Parlors have ball recirculation systems with large reserves... basically take all the losing balls and shoot them back into the reservoir. At home you need to do that by hand... or buy a bunch of balls and build your own reservoir... and buy a ball lifter to lift the balls back up to the top of the machine for you...

[hanabi]

Not played that model so can't comment on the alarm or display it is showing, hopefully someone with that model or frame will chime in.

Regarding 'ball management' we do have a subsection of the forums with lots of interesting posts / threads and pics

Here's the link: Ball Lifters/Ball Management