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ed12:
90% of all coin accepters on the market today are of the 10 pin header style.
to clear the air cctalk is a protocol used by 99% of mfgs to "chat" with the coin accepter in question

ed

ed12:
just to give u an idea of what shawn was talking about
here is a rm5 pdf
please note
the pin headers
1-10 pin
1=14 pin (old style)
1--6 pin (programmer interface >handheld< cctalk version)
and of course there dip switch's

ed

obcd:
A lot of the somewhat older coin acceptors have the 10 pins connector but no cctalk connector.
That's why I made the correction.
Some brands offfer the choice to have either cctalk or a parallel output.

cctalk is suposed to be the successor of the parallel output. The idea is that you can have multiple devices on the same serial bus. It makes cabling less complicated. It's being in use on gambling machines. It's not yet popular on amusement machines.
And, as you said, it can be used to program the coin acceptor, but I doubt there is a standard for that?

It's kind of confusing to see a 14 pins connector on a 10 pins header. It might help against misalignment, but some coin acceptors probably won't accept the plug due to the hole in the housing being 2 small.

But... It's getting of topic. (This is not Wikipedia after all.)

ed12:
ya the pin outs can be confusing.

ed

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: obcd on September 07, 2016, 04:59:45 pm ---And, as you said, it can be used to program the coin acceptor, but I doubt there is a standard for that?

--- End quote ---

standard, yes... but also no, proprietary.

The cctalk protocol is standard across all cctalk compatible devices (same bits mean the same thing) but the software to program them is locked down like a nazi concentration camp... often having a licence good for X number of acceptor programs or for X number of days before it disables itself.

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