User manual

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Document No. 80-15151 Issue 6 HEBER LTD
1 INTRODUCTION
The Pluto 5 Controller board is a natural progression in the Pluto family of products. It builds on the
proven reliability and technical excellence of previous Pluto boards and provides improved
performance and flexibility at lower cost. This manual covers the detail of the hardware operation of
Pluto 5 Controller board, other boards in the system have their own manuals.
2 NEW IN THIS RELEASE
• Section 6.9 has revised audio information.
3 OVERVIEW
The Pluto 5 Controller board is a low cost, high performance single board controller for amusement
machines. An 8 reel machine with 256 lamps, 32 LED digits, Linewriter display, Coin Acceptors, Note
Acceptors and Payout Hoppers can be controlled without any additional boards.
Single channel sound can be played through one or two speakers. Two Channel (mono or stereo)
sound is available by plugging in an additional IC.
Pluto 5 boards are supplied with either Ultrex or Box Header connectors.
Pluto 5 with Ultrex connectors is referred to as Pluto 5U.
Pluto 5 with Box Header connectors is referred to as Pluto 5B.
These connectors and all the other connectors on the Pluto 5 board are documented in Section
8 - Connector Types and Pin Outs in this user manual.
Add-on boards are available to increase the number of lamps by up to 512, LED Digits by up to 64 as
well as CGA/VGA Video and Memory Expansion.
The numbering system on all Pluto 5 boards is consistent, in that, where Lamps and LEDs are
involved the product name has a suffix X/Y. X is the number of lamps and Y is the number of LED
digits that that product drives. The Pluto 5 Controller board is available as a Pluto 5 128/16
Controller and a Pluto 5 256/32 Controller.