Techno Stuff
How They Work - Sequence and winner units
Many screen games have the red and yellow striped supersections. When the feature is lit, you effectively get a spotted number in the supersection. So 2-in-section scores as three, 3-in-section scores as 4, etc.
The circuit to accomplish this is pretty simple, and is shown in orange.
golden gate |
| supersection circuit |
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At the first step of the sequence unit, power is routed through the trip relays associated with enabling the supersection. If the trip replay is closed, the winner unit is stepped up once before any of the search relays are even checked to see if a ball is in the hole. Simple, effective, and therefore pretty clever!
Note also the orange circuit passes through the search disc again. This is what makes sure that the winner unit can only step up when the supersection is being looked at. If you didn't have the search disc in there, the winner unit would step up every time the sequence unit was at step 1, which would mean that all sections would pay like an enabled supersection all the time.
The other junk around the orange circuit that is labelled stuff like "gold game" is unique to Golden Gate and Silver Sails. Both these machines have a special golden game that also has a striped section. If enabled, then 2-in-striped-gold scores like three-in-gold. Same logic.
