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Title: coin door wiring question
Post by: theob42 on October 19, 2009, 03:17:05 pm
hey guys, heres the coin door I have. gonna wire it up. how do I wire the bulbs? its got two prongs on the back of each bulb. and can i use the 5v spots on an optipac to power them? 

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Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: Ginsu Victim on October 19, 2009, 03:27:19 pm
Quote from: theob42 on October 19, 2009, 03:17:05 pm
can i use the 5v spots on an optipac to power them?

No, it includes 14v bulbs, so use 12v from your PC power supply. Yellow wire and a black wire, hooked up to either prong. (Doesn't matter which)
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: theob42 on October 19, 2009, 03:53:37 pm
so black wire to 1 prong and yellow to the other?
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: Ginsu Victim on October 19, 2009, 03:55:24 pm
yep
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: theob42 on October 19, 2009, 04:33:31 pm
oh just remembered, i ahve 4 bulbs, can i connect them in series? (daisy chain)

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?

EDIT: good found the manual and its got detailed numbering of the wires but no colours. so im gussing the black was the ground and the yellow the 12v??
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: Ginsu Victim on October 19, 2009, 04:41:38 pm
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)
Check the voltage on them first. Make sure they can handle 12v. Wire in parallel, not series.

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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?
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
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: theob42 on October 19, 2009, 05:04:37 pm
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
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: bkenobi on October 20, 2009, 01:11:44 pm
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.
Title: Re: coin door wiring question
Post by: Turnarcades on October 20, 2009, 10:30:51 pm
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It has four wires:
Red: 5v
Black: ground
Black: ground
Yellow: 12v

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.