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coin door wiring question
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: theob42 on October 19, 2009, 04:33:31 pm ---oh just remembered, i ahve 4 bulbs, can i connect them in series? (daisy chain)
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Check the voltage on them first. Make sure they can handle 12v. Wire in parallel, not series.
--- Quote ---oh and crap i just checked out my power supply its one of those modular power supplies which is good but all the cables/wires are black :( .any ideas?
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Those will work, just use one of the four-pin molex connectors like you plug into an IDE harddrive or cd/dvd drive.
It has four wires:
Red: 5v
Black: ground
Black: ground
Yellow: 12v
theob42:
hey sorry to bug again, so i need to plug in a 12v directly from the power supply (yellow cable) for each blub? but i assume all the grounds can be connected to the same ground or any ground.
so if they were in parallel id need 4 of those molex connectors to connect 4 light bulbs?! since each one only has 1 wire for 12v
bkenobi:
I just grabbed a Molex splitter cable I had laying around, clipped one of the connectors off, and used wire nuts to attach needed wires. If you wanted to be neater, you could get a terminal strip.
You can run a single 12v cable to the coin door and just connect multiple QD to it like you would wire the ground on your CP. Do the same for Ground and you are good to go. I don't have pictures here, but it's simple enough you probably don't need them anyway.
Turnarcades:
--- Quote ---It has four wires:
Red: 5v
Black: ground
Black: ground
Yellow: 12v
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Unrelated point, but on some PC's I've worked with the red and yellow wires are both substituted for orange wires instead. The layout is the same though, so the same principal applies as here.