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Electrical Wiring Question (Update: IT WORKS!!!!!)
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote ---I also want to make sure that the +5 Volts coming in to my counter won't fry my encoder or switches.
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Which is exactly why I haven't hooked up the 12v on mine. I've only run wires directly to the counter to see if it worked, and then simply tapped the positive wire a few times to see the counter go up.
I've been scared to run it to the coin switches for fear of frying my Ipac.
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: Spaz Monkey on March 23, 2008, 04:45:25 pm ---umm.... doesn't the jamma board and harness do some of that work for you? There's a coin counter 1 & coin counter 2 on the harness. Just do something like:
CC1 wire from harness ----\
>---- combined coin counter wire to coin counter
CC2 wire from harness ----/
With your diodes at the / and \ ?
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This isn't for an actual JAMMA arcade cab. This is for a home built cab that I'm still in the process of making. Not even sure why I need to hook this up, but after seeing the meter on my coin-box I just had to hook it up properly. ;D
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on March 23, 2008, 04:59:04 pm ---
--- Quote ---I also want to make sure that the +5 Volts coming in to my counter won't fry my encoder or switches.
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Which is exactly why I haven't hooked up the 12v on mine. I've only run wires directly to the counter to see if it worked, and then simply tapped the positive wire a few times to see the counter go up.
I've been scared to run it to the coin switches for fear of frying my Ipac.
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In that case, you could just put a resistor in line with the 12v and drop the voltage down to a level that's safe. Once I figure out the safe voltage for my setup, I'll include the resistors where they need to go.
Ginsu Victim:
Or....I just leave it alone and don't hook it up. There's no reason to have one hooked up at home anyway.
Jdurg:
Yeah, but when you're as anal retentive as I am, it will drive you nuts. (Hence why even my CP isn't done yet and I've been working on it for four months now. :laugh2: I've got arcade parts scattered throughout my house). When I bought my coin door, it actually came with a used one, but I wanted one that was set to all zeros and didn't feel like manually moving it up the couple hundred thousand that it needed. So I went and bought a new meter off of E-Bay. I guess the only reason I want to hook it up is to see just how much I've been playing my cabinet. It's weird. I know that I really have no good reason to hook it up, but then again, I also had no real good reason to put a fully functional coin door in there either. (While I wait to build the cabinet, the coin-door has become an awesome piggy bank because any time I get a quarter in change it ends up going in through my coin door. I must have forty of fifty dollars in quarters in there now.) :cheers:
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