Working coin door..possible?

[PhoneLine]

Happy New Years all!

Had a question regarding a coin door I just received from arcadeshop.com.

[quarterback]

Here's my question.  Is it possible to actually make Mame see whan a coin is being dropped in the slot?

Heck yeah, bro.  That's how all the cool kids do it.   The coin mech is just a switch like any other one of your buttons.  You wire that switch up to the "5" (or whatever) on your encoder anf voila! You've got a working coin door.

Do a search and I'm sure you'll find hundreds of posts.

[SithMaster]

try retrocade.com thats the guide im using to wire my door up.

[PhoneLine]

Thanks guys.

Sith, that web site actually just brings me to a search, do you have a direct link to the guide your talking about?

[SirPoonga]

You don;t need a guide.  At the coin exit of the coin door is a switch.  In fact it will probably be the same switch your pushbuttons use except it will have a wire actuator to trip the switch when the quarter goes by.  Wire it up just like a pushbutton.
http://www.happcontrols.com/electrical_supplies/42107500.htm

[PhoneLine]

Yep, that is exactly the piece the coin door has.

[SirPoonga]

Same as the switch on your pushbuttons (I assume you are not using leafs).

The bottom should be labelled ground.  I think the middle is NO and top is NC.  They should be labelled though.

NO=normally open
NC=normally closed

[quarterback]

I believe that coin door buttons are actually opposite than the microswitches used for buttons/joys and the NO and NC placements are switched.   

Same as the switch on your pushbuttons (I assume you are not using leafs).

The bottom should be labelled ground.  I think the middle is NO and top is NC.  They should be labelled though.

NO=normally open
NC=normally closed

[Kremmit]

Close your eyes, try one, and see if it works.  If it doesn't, switch the wire to the other one.  You can't hurt anything here.

[PhoneLine]

Thanks for the info guys, going to try it when I get home from work tomorrow.  My main fear was connecting it wrong and frying something, but since the worst that can happen is it won't work and I have to swap the connections, I'm happy

Again, thanks for all the info!   

[fixedpigs]

on a similar note...

is there an easy way to rig up a coin door for free play...?

                                                thanks...!

[thebrownshow]

Easiest way is to leave the coin door unlocked and just hit the switch yourself.

[Kremmit]

on a similar note...

is there an easy way to rig up a coin door for free play...?

                                                thanks...!

Once you figure out how to connect the coin door itself, you just wire a button to the same two terminals on the microswitch.  Push the button, and you've got a credit.  Lots of people hide the button inside the coin return, or on the underside of the panel, or mount it such that it gets pushed when you push the coin reject button.

[thebrownshow]

When I bought my cabinet, it actually had a button shoved into the spot where the lock should have gone.  The connectors from the 2nd coin slot had been removed from the coin switch and wired to this new "credit button":

[fixedpigs]

...or mount it such that it gets pushed when you push the coin reject button.

aha yes...!

now we're talking...

i suppose it would be easy enough just to make two contacts that would touch when the reject button was pushed...

simple enough...-=)

[PhoneLine]

Wanted to just add another thank you to all those that provided info to me, my coin door is now fully functional.    And I didn't even see any sparks   

[DrFrag]

When I was younger, local arcades would have lock-in nights where you pay $10 or so and they lock you in the arcade with all the machines set to free play.

They had the regular coin slots, and on the control panel was a rectangular button labelled "free play".