Another Coin Door lighting Question

[Getintothegame]

Hey everyone,

Just having a really hard time wiring my coin door to power - and that's it. I don't need it to be attached to an IPAC or anything, I simply want the lights to light up and for coins to be accepted anyway.

When I first tried to attach it, the lights lit up fine at first, but then burnt out after a couple seconds. I thought that I overloaded the voltage of the bulbs, so I looked it up - they are GE 1892 bulbs, and 14.4v. (Watts: 1.73W, Amps: 0.12A, Volts: 14.40V)

So now the question is asking how my Coin Door is wired - I'll show you what I'm looking at.


The face.


This is the thing that I've never seen before - it's a male connector! Order of wires: Red, Green, Brown.


This is the other confusing thing, which one has to be ground? The red or green wire?


Another view of this angle.


Notice the coin counter? Doesn't that need power as well? Seems to be running on the brown wire, which I had hooked up to a ground.

Now, what do I do to this? I've always thought that the wires were red = 5v, blacks = ground, yellow = 12v. Do I need to splice it to yellow, black, red, blank?



Thank you, guys. One last thing I'd like to know is how to splice a computer power supply unit - is it soldering or what?

Thanks again!

[sarge]

From what I can see, your green wire will be your ground which will hook to the black wire, the brown wire will be your coin line going to your game, and your red wire will be your voltage wire.  Whether its run off 12 (yellow) or 5 (red) VDC mainly depends on what kind of coin meter you have (they make both 12 and 6VDC coin meters) and your coin lockout solenoid.  You will have to install a bulb that is rated to handle the necessary voltage.  You are correct on your pinout of the molex coming from your supply.  You can solder or crimp to the wires or make your own connector to mate up with the existing one.

[Jdurg]

I too would be curious to know how to get the coin meter working with the coin mechs.  The meter I have is a 4.5V meter with a red positive and black negative lead.  I'm not sure myself how to get the meter hooked up so that when I drop a coin in either of my two slots it will increment the meter by 1.

[sarge]

You will want to check to make sure your meter has a diode installed with it.  It will work if you hook your voltage wire to the red lead and your coin wire to the black lead (assuming your coin wire is the same line on both coin switches).  Or if you can find a pin on your connector that outputs a pulse to the meter when a coin is registered, you can hook that to the black wire.

[Jdurg]

Yes.  The meter I have does have a Diode in it.  I'm just wondering how I can get both coin mechs to make the meter respond when a coin is put in there without them interfering with each other.  E.G. I can't just attach the positive line from the meter to both of the coin switches and keep them neutral with respect to each other.  Electrically, I can probably come up with something that will keep the two wires from the coin mechs separate, but if a signal comes from either of them it will send it along to the meter.

[Getintothegame]

I got it working... so far. I need to still get new bulbs, BUT everything (including the coin counter) is working GREAT! So I'm going to get new bulbs tomorrow just to make sure that it does work. But here's what I did:



This gets attached this way:
PSU to Coin:
Yellow to Red
Black to Green
None to Brown (I imagine this is the trigger?)

Thanks guys!

[Jdurg]

Is this for an actual PCB, or for a MAME Cabinet?  If for a MAME cabinet, I'm just wondering how you hooked it up so each of the coin mechs would register a coin on the meter.  (Do you have each coin mech wired up separately, or are the two of them treated as one?)

[TheShanMan]

I hooked my meters up using relays controlled by the coin signal.