Why Power Protection is Important for Slot Machines

Slot machines are essentially high power-consumption units that also need to function at optimum levels. Today, all these devices work on electronic systems versus the electromechanical ones used in the past. This also means they can get impacted by any fluctuations in power.

Factors that impact continuous operation

The thing that makes continuous operation an extremely challenging point is the crucial electrical systems can get impacted by a number of factors:

• Excess current might just enter via various items within the subsystem. This includes cameras, power sources, communication cables and peripherals
• Excessive current may destroy the important items within the subsystem. This includes silicon items, magnetic media and circuit board traces. Typically, the subsystems are assembled using components from various manufacturers. This is why most of these systems have equipment which handle signal-grounding and power in different ways.
• Apart from this, the segments of the communication cables that are outside the building are vulnerable to lighting, crosses and breakage. These cables also directly lead to all your vital equipment. If these systems are left unprotected, even a very minor power issue can actually bring the gaming floor to a standstill.

Different types of power issues

It goes without saying that any type of downtime at a casino just translates into huge monetary losses, regardless of its scale. The different power problems that arise can cause problems such as:

Blackouts

This is a total loss of power and all the equipment shuts down.

Brownouts

In this, there is temporary drop in the input voltage which can lead to malfunctions in the machine. In addition, it can also cause data corruption.

Spikes

These are severe, short-term overvoltage issues that can cause a significant amount of damage to the different electrical components in these systems.

A matter of cost saving

Today, power consumption is one of the most crucial issues for the clubs, hotels and casinos in Queensland. They are always on the lookout for ways and means of reducing their power consumption and its associated costs. The other way to save on expenditure is to ensure that their machines aren’t affected by surges or fluctuation in temperature.

We at KaRaTec Power Supply Pty manufacture plug-in, high surge power converters used in gaming machines of different types. Converters such as these have a corrected front-end as well as a high-density, compact high power design, 150% high-surge capability, as well as standby power when the connected PCs are in the sleep mode.

High grade power surge protection

These products also provide high grade protection from any power disturbances on power and data lines, such as surges, spikes as well as indicative transients which can cause downtime, disruptions as well as catastrophic damage.

Current day slot machines are highly advanced in their functionality, but they are also much more sensitive and vulnerable to power disturbances. They have much more components such as card readers, boards and LCD monitors and they rely on microprocessors for their functioning; and power disturbances can impact the working of these systems.

When uptime is important

Uptime is imperative in the Casino industry as it increases revenue and leads to customer satisfaction. Using components like our high surge power converters in addition to UPS equipment as well as advanced surge protection devices is one way of reducing the impact of power disturbances on casino gaming machines.

If you want to know more about these conductors or any of our custom power products and services, don’t hesitate to contact us at 612 9808 1127. You can also fill in this contact us form and we’ll reply as soon as possible.

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