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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: dannyyy on June 24, 2007, 10:39:00 am
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I bought myself a S.E.C.I. RM4 coin mechanism on ebay. It was a bargain so I thought to make a good deal.
Problem now is, that I can't find documentation on the thing and I don't know how to make it work.
I want to put it in my mame cabinet that I'm working on but I don't know if its possible to connect the RM4 to my computer.
anyone knows how to do this?
thanks
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I have no idea what you're talking about. A picture please of the object in question.
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the mechanism is this one.
www.highway.net.au/img_parts/img_3985.jpg
does anyone have an idea how to wire it to a pc to use in mame?
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It says to connect it, "Connects to the credit board through a 10 pin cable." Doubt anyone on here can connect it. No simple switches. You will have to read a signal from the board. If you have access to a potentiometer, you could hook it up and try and read the signals out of the mech.
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If you have access to a potentiometer, you could hook it up and try and read the signals out of the mech.
Do you mean a multi-meter?
Not trying to be rude, you might know some cool way of reading voltages I don't. ;)
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hello dannyyy.
I've found this pdf.
www.alca-coin.com/files/05%20R6.1%20eng.pdf (http://www.alca-coin.com/files/05%20R6.1%20eng.pdf)
That coin mech is programmable and very flexible. But it will be difficult to hook up...
It can accept different coin/token and you can assign a value to each of them.
The thing is that it;s using its 10 pins connector and some sort of serial encoding to
inform the "money board" what value was inserted...
goodluck,
Jay
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this is the same website with all the products they support...
http://alca-coin.com/eng/index25dc0.html?p=pro&n1=menu (http://alca-coin.com/eng/index25dc0.html?p=pro&n1=menu)
this is probably the pdf that has the validator info:
http://alca-coin.com/files/05%20R6.1%20eng.pdf (http://alca-coin.com/files/05%20R6.1%20eng.pdf)
have fun...
>:D
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The manual claims that there is a 4 pin connector at RS-232 levels. This could be hooked up to a standard PC serial port with a suitable (possibly custom-made) cable. Documentation for the protocol it speaks is supposedly on their website, but I have not looked. They seem to call this "master mode".
Once you have it hooked to your serial port, you would then simply run a program in the background to monitor the serial port for the coin device to speak and take appropriate action (such as artificially generating a keypress) when it does so. This would be much easier than using the other interface on there.
If you don't have a serial port, one of the USB to RS-232 serial adapters should work for this purpose as it appears to actually be sending serial data, not bit-banging the handshaking lines.
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Oops, wasn't thinking of a meter at all. Had a brain fart there. What I meant to say was an oscilloscope. Figured this coin mech might send varying signals that could be read by an oscope. Out of school for a little while and you start forgetting everything.
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thanks for the replies. I'll try to figure out what the easiest option is for me.
If I can get it to work, I'll let you know.
greets,
Dannyyy