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Coin Door thoughts - to wire up or not?
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--- Quote from: gabe on October 20, 2011, 01:53:56 pm ---Does everyone here have a large collection of wooden nickels?
Why not just use quarters? ???
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Not very many real arcades around or reason to have a handful of quarters around to use. It would be nice to be able to use any change and use it as a piggy bank.
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Agree on both fronts to varying degrees - but I also have a large jar full of quarters. Weighs a ton, cannot imagine how much money is in there. I know I've dropped in ~8-10 quarters at a time and they just vanish. The novelty of using them wears off at times, but wiring them is not a big job either. I like the appearance, the fact that they do work, and the fact that they reject anything that isn't a Canadian quarter. Sometime it'd be nice to grab any old coin I can find and drop it in, but the rejection thing is more authentic or...i duno, I like it more. If you have a working door, you may as well wire it up, imho. I also added coin counters, the numbers showing are a real shocker too. I give my kids heck for the hours in front of their consoles....best not show them a real count of what dad is up to :-[
Ginsu Victim:
Mine can either accept quarters or use the switches I've rigged up behind the rejects, just like eds1275 did.
BobA:
Adds another level of realism but bartop and coin doors do not get along. Small coin mechs do not give the feel and look of a coin door.
compute:
For some reason I had been considering this an either/or proposition. I like the idea of using coins, although I want to rig my arcade to run on tokens (or do any-coin mod). At the same time, on my cabs I find myself just opening the door and tripping the coin switch anyway. It seems like doing both would be the way to go in this case. Thanks for the discussion, guys!
bradx:
i have a hidden switch under the CP for credits and the coin door is wired up. couple years now and i still use it as a bank to hold all my quarters.