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how many admin buttons
Jack Burton:
Wire a "shift" button to a switch next to the test and service buttons in your cabinet. Map all your admin functions to each your controls plus the shift button.
When you want to do admin stuff on your cab unlock the coin door, flip the switch and all your controls become shifted to admin functions. When you're done exit your menus, unflip the switch and lock the door up.
JustMichael:
One last thing to keep in mind with "admin" buttons, keep them out of sight or make sure their layout makes sense on the cabinet. Simply put you don't want to accidentally hit them.
Marsupial:
--- Quote from: gazz292 on November 13, 2010, 11:51:33 pm ---and a little while ago i built a token dispenser, press a button and it spits out 50 tokens.. just an old fruit machine coin hopper (bit that pays out) and a circuit to pulse the hoppers input 50 times, it then counts out 50 tokens.
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please do post (or PM me) pictures and details.
I am looking at making one myself, would greatly use your idea.
what's a coin hopper??
for the spinner... I too am looking at that. Some people put them in the front of the machine, I want to try that out before drilling mine. 8)
ranma:
--- Quote from: Marsupial on November 15, 2010, 10:15:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: gazz292 on November 13, 2010, 11:51:33 pm ---and a little while ago i built a token dispenser, press a button and it spits out 50 tokens.. just an old fruit machine coin hopper (bit that pays out) and a circuit to pulse the hoppers input 50 times, it then counts out 50 tokens.
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please do post (or PM me) pictures and details.
I am looking at making one myself, would greatly use your idea.
what's a coin hopper??
for the spinner... I too am looking at that. Some people put them in the front of the machine, I want to try that out before drilling mine. 8)
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Sorry to continue the offtopic, but I was looking for the same as well, maybe create a thread with some detail? ;)
gazz292:
a coin hopper is a hopper, (as in it holds a large ammount of things... coins in this case), and it spits them out via an electric motor and cointing system when instructed to do so,
they are found in almost all modern slot machines to pay out the winnings.
i have a rought write up of how i did my token dispenser at http://www.freewebs.com/ratsarsearcade/tokendispenser.htm
i have changed it a little since that write up, i no longer have the coin validator, and instead have a button and a simple circuit using a couple of 555 timers to generate 50 pulses, which feed the hoppers input wire, and makes it count out 50 tokens.
i am in the UK btw, so terminoligy may be strange, i imagine you can get universal hoppers in america, or something similar, i chose that as it's self contained electronics wise, it will spit out one coin for every pulse you send it on one of the wires,
a lot of hoppers only have a motor and opto's, the counting is done by the main processor in the host machine,
i guess if you dont want a specific ammount of tokens spat out, then get a pachislo token hopper (from a pachislo machine) and just run a button to powe the motor when pressed,
you just hold the button till you have enough tokens, pachislo hoppers are extremely fast at spitting tokens out,