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| paigeoliver:
I am about to wire up my coin door, and I was wondering if there was anyway to make the coin counter advance when you dropped in quarters. I KNOW I could do it by making the quarter trigger two switches (one wired up to the ipac, and the other wired up to feed 12V to the counter). But is there any other way? The coin door doesn't really have a way to add a second switch easily. No big deal if there is not an easy way to do it, but if there was I thought I would go ahead and set it up. |
| grafixmonkey:
How does the coin counter work? because if all you need to do is feed it some 12v current and it counts one, then you can do it with a transistor or a relay. if you have to be careful of the timing, then what I'm thinking might not work (like if you have to feed it 12v for exactly 1/8 second or something) |
| paigeoliver:
They only advance one number at a time, the power moves a magnet (or something) into position (which advances it), when the power is removed the thingy drops back down. So it isn't precise timing or anything. |
| AlanS17:
I think it's as simple as appling a current and having it just tick up a notch. If it's part of the JAMMA standard then I bet it would work automatically with a JPAC (assuming). Otherwise I think a relay would work just fine. The counter in mine has gone up so far, though, that it's probably ready to cycle back around to 0. I never checked it when I had my JPAC installed so I can't tell you if it was working, The thought crossed my mind, but I never got around to it. |
| paigeoliver:
I don't think the j-pac supports it. It is ultimately the PCB that feeds the power to the counter in most games, and J-Pac doesn't even use a power supply, hence no power to feed the counter. Also, my cabinet isn't Jamma anyway. Jamma wasn't even a gleam in the developers eyes back when this cabinet was built. Heck, color games weren't even around back then. This baby was built in 1976 and was wired for the Midway 8080 standard. I have since rewired it (I-Pac). |
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