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    Default ELvision Problem – Neo Magic Pulsar – Help Needed

    Hello everyone, I have just recently started buying a few Pachislo machines. I love these machines!

    Machine: Neo Magic Pulsar (2003)

    Here is the problem:
    The ELvision (the laser animation overlay, that is displayed in front of the spinning wheels) is not working. From outside of the machine, you can see a couple flickering pixels at the bottom of the screen.
    The machine powers up, reels spin and stop as they should, it works great except the ELvision screen does not work.
    I have opened the door of the machine and can hear the ELvision screen making a kind of soft buzzing/humming sound.
    The ELvision screen does not display anything it should be, if I look really close at it (from inside the machine) it faintly displays only a small percentage of the pixels, and they are very very faint (un-seeable from outside of the machine).
    I have checked all the connections in that general area and they look good. I unplugged the wires leading to the circuit board that is there and tilted up the monitor (the method you would use to clean the glass of the monitor). There, as it is tilted up is another circuit board attached to the monitor. I have not tried to take this out yet, as it does not look like an easy job (as the monitor is facing down, still attached to the hinged base) and I wanted to see if there was something else I should try.

    Has anyone had this problem and found a solution to it? Is it possibly that circuit board or maybe the monitor itself?

    I would greatly appreciate any help with this issue, as the game is not very much fun without this overlay working.

    I have a Neo PlanetT with the overlay and it is incredible.
    Thanks in advance for any help.
    David

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    Default Re: ELvision Problem – Neo Magic Pulsar – Help Needed

    Interesting that you brought this up. I had a possibly similar issue with my Neo Magic Pulsar. In my case, the overlay would work in "attract mode" (such as when no-one was playing) but not show any overlay at all while *actively* playing.

    I was so tempted to ask this forum about the issue but held off as some problems are just not easy to answer. It boggled my mind that I would have the above problem at all.

    I tried pulling the El Vision unit and all related cables and boards, as well as re-seating them. No change.

    Eventually, I moved over to disconnecting and reseating cables in another place... The connectors boxed red in the image below.



    After reseating these, EL Vision worked fine in all modes. One other time I've had the problem return, and reseating these cables fixed it again. The problem is some corrosion on these connectors.

    So, try this and see what you get!

    Best regards!

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    Default Re: ELvision Problem – Neo Magic Pulsar – Help Needed

    Hopefully the OP will come back and let us know the outcome.

    BTW, in my prior post when I commented that I almost asked about my issue, but did not. The reason was that I had not gone through and re-seated all connections yet. In my experience, having now 5 Pachislos, corrosion and connection issues cause a large majority of the problems folks see. After I went through and re-seated everything, all was well! I'm interested to see if that helps DWhite with his issue.

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    Default Re: ELvision Problem – Neo Magic Pulsar – Help Needed

    Thanks for the input. I unplugged and replugged the connections that I could see near the reel overlay. Unfortunately that did not help, I was hoping since that would be the easiest fix.
    My next thing I will be trying is replacing the capacitors on the circuit board that is located in the reel screen overlay unit. I will have to open this up to see what capacitors I will need to order them and then replace the old ones. As soon as I do this I will post an update if it worked or not.
    Does anyone know if there are schematics available for the pachislo machines? I have tried looking online with no luck.
    Thanks.

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    Default Re: ELvision Problem – Neo Magic Pulsar – Help Needed

    Good luck with the work

    Sorry I can't be any help.
    Last edited by Drunkenclam; 05-18-2020 at 02:28 AM.
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    Default Re: ELvision Problem – Neo Magic Pulsar – Help Needed

    My next thing I will be trying is replacing the capacitors on the circuit board that is located in the reel screen overlay unit.


    I'd also suggest being prepared to replace capacitors in the connected boards, such as the one I indicated. Any of them could be bad. I wish you luck because this is an amazing pachi and it would be a shame for yours to be forever unusable. :-(

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