Bill Validator

[austinrfnd]

I use an I-Pac interface card on my cabinet.  And I was looking for a coin door to complete my cabinet.  When on ebay, I saw a bill validator.  I thought to my self that Freaking cool if I could put that shizats on my cab.  But then before I bid on it, I wanted to know can I implement that into my cabinet? like i can implement a coin door into my cabinet?

Thanks you for you time
PS: Lusid's arcade design kicks ass!

[Richy]

I dont have any experience with it, but i would have thought it would have to be pretty complicated if it's able to recognise different ones.

[AlanS17]

My general knowledge of bill acceptors is that they work much like coin chutes. Unfortunately, I don't know if most can register 4 credits rather than one. That would depend on the game and bill acceptor.

Some newer games have options to actually accept dollars, but of course most don't. I think Happ sells some sort of a bill acceptor that will actually trigger multiple times for inserting dollars to emulate 4 quarters. However, I don't know if this is how most work or not.

Hope that helped...

[Felix T Cat]

OK, I just got involved with this whole MAME concept but I've got 6 years experience with Mars Bill Validators.

It's very easy to set up a BV on your machine if you already have a coin acceptor working.  Lowest cost one to pick up would be the AE2411-UXE.
This would take $1, $2 and $5's. and replace the "X" with 2,3,5,or 7.  This number being the number of bills it will hold in hundreds (eg 200, 300 etc).  This will most likely not be an issue but the larger the number the deeper the validator will stick into the cabinet.

From there you will need to provide 110v to the validator and wire the output to the coin in switch.  Then you can set the validator to give 4 pulses per dollar and the PC will just think that 4 quarters have been inserted.

If you decide to do it and have any questions about the wiring just let me know.  I can give you move exact pinouts if needed.