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| QuixoteQuest:
--- Quote from: steveh on January 16, 2007, 04:29:39 pm ---Is that box using some sort of encoder? what is it that you have? i was thinking of using a shazam key and hiding all my free coin keys under the p1 keys and then hiding the shazam button somewhere --- End quote --- Yeah, it just has an IPAC. Its coin up inputs right just take the two wires from the coin door and from both CP coin-up buttons. A Shazam key is definitely another option, though it'd be hard to use a hidden button without revealing its location. But unlocking the coin door and having a switch for free play on or off would seem to be an easy thing to do, depending on how generous a parent I am in a given day :) |
| QuixoteQuest:
--- Quote from: miles2912 on January 16, 2007, 04:52:14 pm ---What I did was wire the ground to the switch and then to the credit button. Wire the coin door to a common block and wire the credit button to the same block. Flipping the switch will disable the button. You can see the switch in the pic (middle right) and the common block. --- End quote --- My grounds were wired together with all the other grounds for the CP admin buttons. Therefore if the ground circuit is involved at all in the switch wouldn't all my admin buttons cease to function when the circuit is broken? That's why I was wondering if I just took the coin-up button control leads and broke them with an on/off switch I could effectively make the free play an enabled/disabled feature of my cab. That said, there are workarounds. Hopefully my boys will play along with the portioning control nature I want to implement without trying to crack the system. It may not work. At least if either son turns out to be anything like their Dad was at that age ;D |
| miles2912:
My grounds all connect to a common block and then to the mini-pac. Makes trouble shooting if you have a short simple. So half my CP is wired to the block then the other half. The coin door is wired to it and then the pinball buttons. Finally I have the toggle switch wired to it. I found this much easier then doing one big long ground wire. Don |
| Kaytrim:
I plan to implement the same type of system in my cab. Make sure that the coin box area is sealed and that you cover all the coin buttons not just player one. You might want to lock the CP down to the cabinet so the wiring is inaccessible. Don't forget where you stash the keys. ;) |
| QuixoteQuest:
--- Quote from: miles2912 on January 16, 2007, 05:09:08 pm ---My grounds all connect to a common block and then to the mini-pac. Makes trouble shooting if you have a short simple. So half my CP is wired to the block then the other half. The coin door is wired to it and then the pinball buttons. Finally I have the toggle switch wired to it. I found this much easier then doing one big long ground wire. --- End quote --- I can see the wisdom to how you did it. Hopefully I never get a short and have to troubleshoot the system my cab maker built for me :) |
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