Coin Unit from Daytona USA cab? - Pics added

[Mark70]

It pays to be in the right place at the right time.

[Minwah]

Coin mechs are usually just microswitches - wire them up as you would a normal button.

[Mark70]

This one looks more like the stuff in the "I got two free jamma cabs"

honestly it looks like there's a pc in behind the coin doors and it has a swath of about fifteen thin wired coming out to a plastic connector.

On the pc looking thing theres a meter for each coin slot showing the current number.

it was bolted onto the side of the Daytona  USA cab and I just unplugged the connectors.  I expect that means some of the brains of the coin counting system have gone to the dump.

[Mark70]

Ok so I finally go to looking at the unit.

[Mark70]

Note to self, complain to my ISP about them selling their hosting off to geocities.

Sorry if the images don't show because of transfer limit.

[Mark70]

Ok, fewer and smaller images, hopefully this stays up for a while.

[madmagician]

I hafta be real honest, I am no coin door expert, but it looks to me like your White/Blue, Yellow/Blue pair is Coin 2's switch and White/Orange Yellow/Orange are your switches, everything else seems to be an accept/reject/counter mechanism.

[Mark70]

I hafta be real honest, I am no coin door expert, but it looks to me like your White/Blue, Yellow/Blue pair is Coin 2's switch and White/Orange Yellow/Orange are your switches, everything else seems to be an accept/reject/counter mechanism.

This is good information, since I know nothing about coin mechs.  I guess the accept/reject sensor, upon acceptance drops the coin into the coin box and sends a signal, which I would hook up to an optipac, or whatever device as 5(1 credit) in mame keys?

[grueinthebox]

This is good information, since I know nothing about coin mechs.  I guess the accept/reject sensor, upon acceptance drops the coin into the coin box and sends a signal, which I would hook up to an optipac, or whatever device as 5(1 credit) in mame keys?

There isn't really a "sensor", per se - accept/reject is decided by a mechanical device (the actual coin mechanism) that you are missing from that coin door.  There would be two of them (one for each slot), and they would mount in the brackets on the back of the door.  The actual credit is provided when the coin passes through the mechanism successfully and trips the small black microswitches at the bottom of your assembly there - to wire it up to an I-Pac, Opti-Pac or whatever, you'd just remove the red quick disconnects that are on the switch now and connect the proper terminals from your encoder to the (now vacant) terminals on the switches (just like you'd hook up a pushbutton).

If you're not planning on using the coin counter or (what I assume to be) volume knobs, etc there, the rest of that wiring is incidental.  Don't let it confuse you.

If you haven't got it ironed out by the time I get home from work tomorrow, I'll try to take some pics of the same coin door I've got in my Hang-On project to illustrate the point.

[Mark70]

I'd really appreciate those pictures, but there's no rush.  I'm not going to be building for a while yet.  I have a broken leg right now.

I wasn't even aware that the mechs were missing.  I realized that a chute of some kind was missing.  I'd like to see the picture to see what the coin mech looks like.

I'll have to sit down and read the manual that came inside it to see if there's anything about the coin mech itself.

[Stingray]

The switches look to be wired properly, the rest of that wiring must be for something else. Looks like all you really need to do is get your hands on a pair of mechs and install them on your door.

-S

[Mark70]

I think I'm going to have to cut that connector off.  I don't have the other end or the rest of the original cabinet.

I plan on using the coin door in a mame cabinet with an Ipac2.  Won't I have to connect each microswitch up to a button push on the ipac?

[Stingray]

I plan on using the coin door in a mame cabinet with an Ipac2.  Won't I have to connect each microswitch up to a button push on the ipac?

That's how it works. Coin doors are nowhere near as complex as a lot people here seem to think they are.

-S

[grueinthebox]

Okay, two pics and a link.

First pic is yours, with the connectors circled that you need to hook to your I-PAC (or whatever).  One goes to ground, the other to the coin input.  Doesn't matter which goes where, as long as you use the two that are already connected (if you use the unused one, it'll provide credits constantly EXCEPT when a coin is being inserted - the opposite of what it should do).

Second pic is my coin door, sans wiring, with the actual installed mechanism circled.  This is the part you're missing.

This link: http://www.happcontrols.com/coindoors/42307900.htm is a coin mechanism.  These (in general, doesn't have to be this one specifically) are what you need to get to fill in the open areas on your coin door.  They'll mount right in there.  This is the part that actually determines whether the coin inserted is what the machine is looking for, or needs to be spit back out.

The coin goes in the slot, through the coin mechanism, then if it's accepted it passes through and trips the switch (to which the connectors in the first pic belong) which actually sends the signal to provide the credit.