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cheapy 'Zero Delay' USB encoder
InfantSorrow:
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--- Quote from: melvinbates on February 24, 2014, 04:56:27 pm ---Well, I had a chance to check my own ZD and get some readings. It seems that the way you had it hooked up originally should have worked. The large back plane on the pcb is in fact the +5 and not the ground (Odd to say the least).
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Well or at least close to the way you had it hooked up. i would try just hooking up the pulse wire to the black wire with the mech set to NO and if you want the ground from the usb connector to the ground of your mech, leave the red wire unhooked, it's just +5v. the black is the one that runs to the chip on the board. I think that should get it working for you.
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Gentlemen... just about to test this.
Drum roll please...
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"The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid" Great balls of fire!' Lol
No joy guys. Maybe someone should just gift me an old ipac as an early christmas present lol
Kidding, this just makes me more determined. Is it that hard to make this damn thing sense a freakin pulse!
pbj:
Why not just shove a mechanical switch underneath wherever a good coin is spit out, and hook that to the encoder?
Other thing I'd try is hooking up your coin mech pulses to a relay, and your encoder to that relay. That'll completely isolate any ground or voltage differences.
PL1:
--- Quote from: InfantSorrow on February 24, 2014, 07:23:06 pm ---Drum roll please...
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+1 to PBJ.
Scott
BobA:
Sounds like the way to go PBJ. Too much analysis and conjecture using a live input. We know the ZD works with a no contact so isolate it with a relay and problems are gone.
InfantSorrow:
--- Quote from: BobA on February 24, 2014, 08:33:13 pm ---Sounds like the way to go PBJ. Too much analysis and conjecture using a live input. We know the ZD works with a no contact so isolate it with a relay and problems are gone.
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Pbj. Read my original posting. I said I know I could use a microswitch to be triggered with a coin drop but that wouldnt be the elegant solution lol I will either do that or get an i-pac as a last resort.
But while there is still some life left in these old bones.. lol
Okay Scott and Bob. Walk me through the relay thing.
So I need to get a 5v relay at electronics shop?
How would the wiring work.
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