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javeryh's Woodgrain Cabaret Copy
javeryh:
OK... something is DEFINITELY wrong with my coin door wiring. I just tried going into Windows and when I went to Task Manager and tried running a new task by typing "explorer" into the box it just kept typing 56565656565656565656565656565 over and over until I disconnected the coin door. All of the switches are wired to NO and none of them were pressed so I don't know what is happening.
In other news, the bgfx setting looks pretty good so far.
bperkins01:
its wired wrong.. 5 and 6 are coin1 and coin2 when you map them to the standard mame keyboard
you you are inserting coins at lightning speed
the wires for the switches are grounded someplace.
javeryh:
--- Quote from: bperkins01 on January 29, 2021, 12:37:07 pm ---its wired wrong.. 5 and 6 are coin1 and coin2 when you map them to the standard mame keyboard
you you are inserting coins at lightning speed
the wires for the switches are grounded someplace.
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yeah, I knew 5 and 6 were P1 and P2 coin... but when I'm in MAME no coins were being added unless the keypresses were happening too fast. Maybe I screwed up my ground when I added the coin switches? I went to the "last" button on the CP (the one that only had one ground connection because of the daisy chain) and added a second ground wire to it to run to the 4 coin switches (to continue the ground chain). I'm pretty sure that's correct because if I had a 4th "action button" on the CP, the daisy chain would have continued to there - continuing to the coin door switches should work just fine.
Could the issue be that I'm using cherry switches for the coin door and Gold Leaf buttons from Ultimarc as the CP buttons? Those do not care which pin you use for ground and what you use to connect to the iPAC but the cherry switches are specific. Maybe the ground connection gets lost there?
:dunno
bperkins01:
1 common ground for all of the switches is fine.. if you disconnect the coin door and it stops.. then you have a wire that is supposed to be connected to the ipac somehow shorting to ground.. the switches (unless they are broken) have nothing to do with it.
unless...
On the switches - there are 3 tabs
You could have the wires connected to the 'normally closed' tabs vs. the 'normally open' ones
maybe its that?
javeryh:
--- Quote from: bperkins01 on January 29, 2021, 01:15:39 pm ---1 common ground for all of the switches is fine.. if you disconnect the coin door and it stops.. then you have a wire that is supposed to be connected to the ipac somehow shorting to ground.. the switches (unless they are broken) have nothing to do with it.
unless...
On the switches - there are 3 tabs
You could have the wires connected to the 'normally closed' tabs vs. the 'normally open' ones
maybe its that?
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I disconnected the coin door and it stopped. So something is definitely happening there. I do not think it is the switches because yesterday both coin mechs functioned properly and both switches I installed behind the coin return did not. I then tested a couple more loose switches and none worked. I think it's statistically unlikely that all of my cherry switches are malfunctioning. I also tried connecting to NC like you suggested and nothing.
I think it has to be my rigged up Molex connection behaving weirdly. I am expecting male/female quick disconnects to arrive tonight from Amazon so tomorrow I will be able to wire directly to each switch and test them out one by one. I'm actually out of wire and quick disconnects or I'd just do it now. I was down to green solid core wiring in my supply bin so now I can't even tell the wires apart... of course! :cheers: