So picked up a Pachinko machine off of craigslist. Everything works and it came with 30 tokens. I can rotate the hopper dial by hand and it shoots out the tokens.

I cycled a bunch of tokens thru the machine to build up credits, and made sure the hopper had the 30 tokens inside it. I played until I had a credit of 5 tokens and then pressed the payout button to see if the 5 tokens would dispense.

I get the Error Code HE.

I have 600 tokens on order, just waiting for them to show up. I'd kinda like to know if there is something wrong with the hopper and the dispenser

My questions:

  1. How does the hopper sense that it is empty?
  2. Why isn't 30 tokens in the hopper enough for it to at least dispense 5 of them?
  3. Anyway to "trick" the hopper into thinking its full just so I can test the dispensing?
  4. What do these switches on the power supply, under the reset key and power switch mean (see pictures)?


Thanks in advance.

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