Wiring up coin mech to I-Pac

[gavin.prior]

This is all I need to do to complete my Arcade project.
I have a Mars 111 mech and a Quattro-1 credit board.
I don't know if either work because I never tried it with a Jamma board before I went to work on it.
On the Quattro, there are +12V dc and 0V dc on the bottom.
At the top, there is Coin Meter +ve, Coin Meter -ve, Coin Entry Lamp, Coin Entry Lamp. Further across is Coin Switch n/c, Coin Switch n/o, Coin Switch Common.
There is a ribbon cable connecting the mech to the credit board.

What I need to know is where do I connect what to get it working so that when I stick coins in it, it will register as credits.

Any help - very much appreciated,
Gav.

[SirPoonga]

You don't need the counter part or any of.  The 12v power is for the lighted buttons.

You just need to worry about ground and normally open.  Hook the commons of the switches to the IPAC ground.  Then hook player 1 switch NO to coin 1 on the IPAC, player 2 to coin 2.

[gavin.prior]

Cheers for the advice.
Do I not need to provide the credit board with +12v though?
Does this in turn (via the ribbon cable) power the mech?

Confusing this bit.    

Gav.

[SirPoonga]

actually, I'm not sure what is to be powered.  I'm not too sure about that model of coin door.  All my doors are just a swutch.

[Zipper]

Hi there,
I've got the MARS111 mech and a credit board, and have it hooked up as you require.

I'm working from memory here abit, so bare with me!

You need to supply the credit board with 12V and 0V and this in turn powers the mech. via the ribbon cable as you said. You don't need to worry about what the mech. outputs are, only concern yourself with the credit board.

Don't bother with the counter/meter outputs, unless you want to buy an electronic counter to count the usage of the machine.

You need to connect 'coin 1' on the i-pac to the 'credit pulse output' and ground (0v).

Any you will likely have an output called 'lamp' too, which will power the coin lamp when connected to 0v or 12v as well. My credit board actually flashes the lamp when I'm at 1/2 credit!! A great little feature.

You can then set the price of play using the dip-switches. Here's an example of how the switches can be set:

                              DIP SWITCH
Price of play.     1 2 3 4 5
 5                    0 0 0 0 0
10                    1 0 0 0 0
15                    0 1 0 0 0
20                    1 1 0 0 0
25                    0 0 1 0 0
30                    1 0 1 0 0
35                    0 1 1 0 0


There is also likely to be a second dip-switch on your board which set's things other than the price of play. Namely the length of the credit pulse sent to the i-pac (fast/slow), and 'bonus credits' for using coins of higher denomination. i.e. Did you ever notice that occasionally a machine set at 20p a go would give you 6 credits for entering a

[Zipper]

Here's some great information on specific credit boards, although I don't think yours is there...


http://www.coin.demon.co.uk/credit.htm

[gavin.prior]

Zipper, I think I know what you are saying now.
However, my IPAC seems to have stopped working now - would you believe that?!?!?!
Doesn't respond to joystick or keystrokes, but bypassing IPAC allows keyboard to be used.
Bleedin' 'ell! Does Ultimarc repair these do you know?

Gav.

[SirPoonga]

Yeah, Andy is very good at that.

[gavin.prior]

I just emailed Andy and he said to send it back for repair - no charge!!!

What a top bloke!

Gav.

[MameFan]

You didnt wire up your lamps to your Ipac board did you?   That could harm it I think.  (though I dont have one and dont know it's schematics)

I wrote about amperages somewhere else in another post, but if you were talking about connecting coin door lamps to to a +5 or +12 being used on a circuit board, that would be bad.

Even the original pacman cocktail cabinets had a SEPARATE transformer winding to pull 14 volts for JUST the 4 lamps used behind the control panels, separate from the audio board and coin door power. Thats saying that 4 little bulbs pulled quite a chunk of power.

[gavin.prior]

No too bothered about the coin lamp (although it would look nice lit up).
I did however try to get +12V from the PC (IDE connector) to power the Credit board (in turn to power the mech).

Gav.

[Zipper]

The only thing I've got hooked up to the I-pac with my setup is the 'Pulse Credit' and a ground lead from the credit board.
This is to press the '5' key a number of times depending on the money inserted.
I've got the credit board hooked up to my PC power supply (12v and ground)
This in turn powers the electronic mech. so that it can varify one of 4 seperate types of coin, and reject any dodgy ones.
The credit board also powers the coin door lamps and the counter. These are nothing to do with the i-pac. The are all driven by the credit board.

Here's a diagram of my set-up: