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| peacem:
Hi, I have recently brought a Sentinel coin mech from ebay.co.uk for |
| Scumgriever:
I started looking into using one of these on a mame cab but got distracted. They do need a credit controll card to work. it's what translates the different signals made by different coins into credits, and stores the credits, but I dont know if you could maybe bypass that in a mame system and just have the sentinel's signal to the credit controll hijacked to a transistor which could close the circuit for the coin buttons. If you figure it out I'll be keen to see how you did it. I'm sure there should be a way. |
| RayB:
That's overkill for MAME. For 6 p you could have bought a brand new "regular" mechanical coin mech. |
| grantspain:
you need something like a klingon credit board,they are available from suzo and brent electronic in the u.k(about 25 quid) but you may be able to pick up a second hand one from an amusement operator near you you can bypass using a credit board but you need to be experienced in machines really or you will blow up the coin mech and/or power supply |
| Outrun:
Hi there, what is used to to detect if a coin has been inserted ? If it's a microswitch & an Ipac you should just be able to wire them together. For the coin insert light, you can wire power from a spare molex connector from your PC power supply. You think you have problems, i wish my coin door was from the UK but alas my cab is from Italy originally (puchased here in the UK though via eBay). I'm having to have custom coin inserts made for me so they show UK coins i.e 10p , 20p & |
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