✨ Gaming Machine Hardware Requirements
1468 No. 56
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
b) the ability to resist liquid spills;
c) the ability to deliver the coin to the correct area of the gaming equipment with minimal failures;
d) the ability to accurately detect and account for all valid inserted coins (and it should effectively detect and reject invalid coins); and
e) the coin input system must be able to prevent manipulation by the insertion of foreign objects.
2.5.3 The coin input system must provide means through which software (or hardware) may detect and/or logically deduce when potential cheating is in progress.
Coin Validators
2.5.4 The coin acceptor device must be electronically based and be so designed that it accepts coins of appropriate legal tender or approved tokens. It must credit the customer’s credit balance by the appropriate amount for each accepted coin, and return to the coin tray all other coins.
2.5.5 The coin validator should be easily removed from its mounting bracket for inspection, and its removal should not require the use of any tools.
2.5.6 Removal and replacement of a coin validator must not cause any necessary re-calibration or adjustment of that validator.
Programmable Coin Validators
2.5.7 In the case of coin validators which are electronically programmable to recognise a coin, the coin validator must be preprogrammed at the factory and it must not be capable of being reprogrammed in the field without access to the equipment used at the factory (or without detailed technical knowledge).
Coin Diverter Chutes
2.5.8 The coin chute and diverter mechanism shall be constructed to ensure that coins inserted into the gaming machine are deposited into either the hopper, the cash box, or the coin tray without coin jams occurring, or without spillage of coins onto the internal floor of the machine.
2.5.9 Means must be provided to enable the software to determine the coin’s direction of travel as they are fed into the gaming machine (e.g. to detect yo-yoing).
2.5.10 There must be a sufficient closed loop control to enable the software to determine:
a) if a coin is travelling to a cash box or to a hopper;
b) if a coin diverter has failed; and
c) if an internal coin jam has occurred (e.g. a coin has passed the acceptor but has not reached the sensors).
Rationale : This requirement maintains that the detection of a hopper overflow condition by means of software alone is inefficient.
2.6 Cash Ouput Systems
2.6.1 The cash output system must be resistant to manipulation by the insertion of any foreign object (e.g. into its output path).
Coin Hoppers
2.6.2 Where a gaming machine may be operated using coins and is fitted with a coin hopper, the hopper shall be located in a suitably secured area (generally within the gaming machine).
2.6.3 A hopper’s design and materials of construction must be of an acceptable quality and shall require no adjustments for at least the manufacturers recommended maintenance period.
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2003, No 56
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NZ Gazette 2003, No 56
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