Coin Door connection link

[Keller888]

hey, can anyone point me to a link for how to hook up a used coin door to my cab?  I have some basic questions i'm sure are covered in a tutorial somewhere, I just can't find any.  I didn't want to post it here, i'm sure its been covered already..

[dmish82]

Not sure where a link may be at but here's the following steps from my experience:

Coin Switches: The current coin door should have 2 switches (one for player 1 and one for player 2). Each switch will have 3 contacts (NO, NC, GND). I'm assuming you are using an I-Pac in your machine so you will want to connect a wire to the NO contact of the Player 1 switch and connect the other end to P1 Coin on the I-Pac. Connect the GND on the switch to GND on the I-Pac. Now when you drop a quarter into the machine, it will trigger that switch, momentarily close the circuit, and register a coin-up. Wire Player 2 the same way but connect NO on the P2 switch to P2 Coin on the I-Pac, GND on the switch can go to the same ground on the I-Pac. That's all there is to it. If you want to power lights for the coin door, read below.

Power for your lights: On your current computer power supply, there will be some 4-pin power connectors that plug into your cd-rom drives/hard drive/ etc. The colors of the wires will be (black, red, yellow, black). Red is +5V and Yellow is +12V. Assuming you are using standard 12V Auto Bulbs, you can power these off your PC Supply. I recommend buying a Y-Adapter to plug into an open 4-pin connector on your supply, splitting your one connection into two so that you don't hack up your existing supply. Once you do that, cut off the two connectors from the wires on your Y-Adapter. Use wire nuts or electrical tape to tape up the unused black wire and red wire on each connector. Connect one yellow wire to the positive side of the light bulb(i actually don't even think there is a + and - to a light bulb so it shouldnt' matter which wire connects where on it) and connect the black wire next to it to the negative side of the same bulb. Take the yellow and black wire from the second connector of the Y-Adapter and connect that to the second bulb as you did with the last one and Voila! You have light. If you for some reason don't have a free 4-pin connector in your computer, then unplug the power connector from your Hard drive or cd rom, plug in the y-adapter, plug one end of the y adapter back into the hard drive or cdrom, and cut the connector off the other end. Now just solder a wire to the yellow wire and use the extra wire to jumper over to the second light. Do the same for the black wire. Note: Make sure you perform all of the power connections with the Computer and Power Supply BOTH turned off.

Hope this helped. Let me know if you have any further questions.

[Keller888]

thanks for the reply, it helps, but i have one more questions.  Each coin path has 2 connectors, and from what I read, one is the actual coin sensor switch and one is probably a counter or something.  How can i tell which is which...I don't care about the counter, if thats what it is, and don't want to hook it up.  Is the counter at the end of the quarter run, and the coin up switch before it, or vice versa?

[dmish82]

It actually shouldn't matter which switch you connect up b/c they both work the same way. However, I would drop a dime or nickel in (assuming that the coin mech is configured to only accept quarters) so that it runs down the coin return chute and see if it trips one of the switches. I wouldn't think that a counter would register a coin inteded to go back to the coin return but it's possible I suppose. If it does hit one of the switches then that would be the counter, meaning you should connect the other switch instead.  Otherwise you can use either of them. Good luck.