Question about wiring a Coin Control Gold Mech Assembly

[Arioch]

Hello, this is my first post on this site but I figured this was definitely the right place to ask this.

Recently I bought a Taito Double Dragon Arcade and everything about it works great except it is wired up for freeplay and I was hoping to get it back to the quarter play since, it makes it a more authentic experience for me.

Anyway, I read this post: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=65375.0 and I think I could use the advice there except for hte fact that my coin door looks a little bit different and I didn't want to go and screw everything up before asking here. I know I would have to attach the Coin crimped areas to something, I'm just not sure where. Hopefully this picture will explain what I am saying better than I can:



And here is a more zoomed in picture of what I'm looking at



In the second picture, I believe I have to do something with the yellow/black cord currently attached to the yellow button and the two black cords that were also originally attached to the yellow button but which I unattached so that they could be seen better.

Also I was curious if there was anyway to wire it so that it is coin activated and still connected to the button for free play? Thanks for the help.

Chad Nelson

[shardian]

If you look closely at the side of the microswitches on the coin door, you will notice some labels: NO, NC, GND. The ground is the blade on the very bottom of the switch. The black wire is probably the ground loop, so it should go there. Connect the yellow/black wire to the "NO" blade of the coin switch. The other coin mech will have its own "NO" wire coming from somewhere else, as JAMMA has a coin1 and a coin2 input. Look at the actual JAMMA harness and there should be labels on it. Note the color of the "coin 2" wire and trace it to the end. This one you hook to the other coin switch on the coin door.

[Arioch]

Thank you very much. Until this post I had never even noticed the third ground connector underneath which would explain why it wasn't working. So you're saying for the coin 2 mech there is a seperate wire that I would have to trace back to the board?



On there the only thing I see is one wire for "Coin". Would it be possible to split the wire that goes to Coin 1 and just hook it up to coin 2 as well? Or would that be problematic?

Chad Nelson

[shardian]

Double dragon is jamma, so there should be a coin1 and coin2. Look at the large wire connector that connects to the jamma board.


Coincidentally, if that is a true DD Taito cab, did you know that the monitor rotates? That is a cool cab to own - I wish I had one.

[Arioch]

Rotates? No I did not know that. I just bought it recently off Craigs List for like 200 dollars and was thrilled to find out that almost everything worked perfectly. Couple dings on the outside of the cabinet and one of the wheels is broken off and needs to be redrilled and attached but other than that, and the coin problem it is great.

I will check out the actual board tomorrow, tonight I was happy because after figuring out how to get at least one of the Coin slots working thanks to you, I managed to get its light working too by randomly plugging it into on of the Molex connector things which didn't seem to connect into anything else (The one showing in my more zoomed in picture).

So yeah, thanks again for the help. Don't think I would have figured that out on my own

Chad Nelson