Thank you! This helped me troubleshoot why my coin microswitch wasn't registering. The bend in my register wire didn't allow the switch to fully depress. Followed your instructions slightly changed the angle and BINGO! Appreciate you posting this!
great video. I ended up with an empty coin door and then a mech without the microswitch so this video's helped me make sense of everything as there's no instructions with any of these parts. Thanks!
I have an issue. There are games like TMNT and X-Men that have separate credits for each player. How do I get it so that 1 coin accepter can work for 4 players? Or at least 2 players
If you can figure that out I would love you forever! Honestly the only way to do it is to wire all 4 credit buttons into the player 1 input on your encoder and it will credit them all at the same time but there is no way to share credits between the players. Sorry
hi there. I saw your video about connecting the switches to the coin acceptor. but i noticed that the button you have has 3 pins. how bout sanwa microswitches. I only see 2. and i know that the other pin is for ground since it's connected to the daisy chains. sorry for the newbie question. bought a chewlix and having problems with the wiring. and the challenging part is I'm not using pandora or jamma. but pc.
and another thing.. there are people going nuts about the China coin acceptor (in chewlix-vewlix machines) model PY-800III or PY-800IV. although someone did a way to bypass the mechanism as a solution but if you can provide a solution that will fix and understand the flow of that acceptor.. i think it will be a great informative video that will really help a lot of people about that problem. I see your video very informative. and thanks for sharing your knowledge about it :)
If you are connecting to sanwa buttons it technically doesn't matter which pins you use for the active wire or the ground. The ground just has to be daisychained to each button.
I have an old Brunswick air hockey table and it needs a new coin mechanism the other one is broke I don't know the first thing on which is the right one to get
How do you wire it up to turn off the free play button. For example, I have retropie setup for select as coin in and coin door as coin in but if I wanted to set a game like pac man and turn off the free play and only use the coin door. Do I set the coin door as 1st, run on/off switch between the door and free play button?
You would have to physically disconnect the free play button to turn it off. If you will be switching between free play and coin door you will want to connect the coin door up as #1 so that the microswitch is always connected properly if you do disconnect the #2 free play button as that has to be connected to the open side of the microswitch. Hope that makes sense.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa I got it hooked up as coin slots as number 1's, grounds connected to free play buttons and coin slots, then have the coin slots 1&2 ran to a single switch which has the free play buttons wired to. The coin slot always works, then when I turn the switch, both free play and coin door works.
I have an ipac 2 and a control panel with coin buttons. My 1a, 2a extra inputs are taken up admin buttons. So is it possible to wire the button and the coin door to the same coin input? How would that be accomplished? I wouldn't think you could just put both wires in on top of each other and screw them down, right?
As clear as mud. Where do you wire the Coin signal? There are three ways to wire a button switch with a coin switch. #1 - Parallel: both switches are SPST, switch 1, wire COM to Gnd & NO to Coin as usual and splice both into switch 2, COM & NO - COM to COM and NO to NO. #2 - Serial: (3-way method) both switches need to be SPDT, NO & NC will be used as runners, COMs are either Gnd or Coin. How to: switch 1, wire COM to Coin, switch 2, wire COM to Gnd, join opposite switches NO to NC and NC to NO for both runners. #3 - Parallel/Serial: (modified Casey's) need a SPDT & SPST switch with runner, wire switch 1 as normal, COM to Gnd and NO to Coin, plus NC to switch 2 NO, switch 2, wire COM to Coin and NO as the runner (already wired). If you look carefully this is a modified parallel/serial hybrid with Gnd going through switch 1 as a runner and switch 2 contacts reversed. Note: Gnd and Coin can be swapped. Alternate #3 - Parallel/Serial: need a SPDT & SPST switch with runner, wire switch 1, COM to Coin and NO to Gnd, plus NC to switch 2 COM, switch 2, wire NO to Gnd and COM as the runner (already wired). This is Gnd and Coin swapped version, Coin is a single wire and Gnd is a daisy chained wire.
My harness came with a coin 16 green wire and also a white cable that becomes a 3 pin harness (White, yellow & black) it’s pretty long ..... so when I hit the coin button it gives me my credit... I want to get the coin mechanism working, do I hook up the green cable down to the coin mechanism or use that white cable to the coin mechanism?
The wire colors change and vary from supplier to supplier and sometimes just because they can. They seem to use scrap wire once in a while just so they don't have any waste on their end. It can be confusing but just stick to what the wiring diagram says, that is the beauty of Jamma! As for the wires and where to go, the "white" is coin for player #1, the long green is for player #2, or for pandoras box 6 and up it is the pause button. You will have to cut the white wire off of the molex connector and extend it or put a connector on it and connect to a button for credit input or to the coin door microswitch. Hope this helps!
Yes, just like a regular microswitch. If you have a free play coin button and the coin door you would wire the button normally and then wire the coin door switch on the closed prong so they are opposite each other.
On Pandora, when I daisy chained coin button with coin door, only one works at a time. Either it accepts only from coin door or only coin button works but coin door doesn’t. Why not both options work simultaneously.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Thank you so much!! 😃 I literally had to google to understand nc, no and common connection. It seems on my switch both prong were side by side, instead of corners. Both coin button and door machine working fine now.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa From coin button, I daisy chained my Ground wire(black) to Com(Common terminal) and daisy chained Coin wire to NC(Normally open). Now, from control panel Coin button works, also Coin Door accepts coins at the same time.
How do you power the lights for the coin door? I am finishing up my cab and getting the coin door working is the last part. I am running mine off a PC. I have an old suzo happ over under coin door. Need to get lights for it. Considering leds pwerdoff a USB? , or Getting a 12V power adapter for 12V lights?
Hi, what can I use to connect my Original Neo-Geo arcade coin door to a pc? And is it a good Idea to draw power for the coin lights from the pc Oo should I use a separate power supply? Thanks.
You can use any type/brand of arcade encoder or mini pac that is supplied by Ultimarc. A computer power supply has more than enough power to support the lights on your coin door, just be sure to find out if the lights are 5V or 12V before you wire it up!
Awesome. Hey is there a way to make a box and hook a coin acceptor up to my Atari flashback 8? I have an idea to generate money for a very special charit
Technically you can do anything with it. You have to find a way to splice in your start button wire to the switch on the coin door, it works the same as a button would.
I'm not too knowledgeable about the system. Cant find schematics. But I assume if I disassemble a controller I should be able to see the start button wire and trace it back from there? Or is there a way I can find a full schematic on the atari flashback?
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Okay thanks, I just open the control panel on the Pandora box and add wires from the coin buttons to the coin acceptor? Pretty much follow the video and add wires..
@@johnallen8334 you bet, just make sure to alternate for connections on the coin door to the third "open" prong on the microswitch otherwise both connections will not work.
Mike Jacobs the ground wire yes, if you want the 1 and 2 to work properly then Daisy chain them from the coin 1 and 2 inputs just used the "cloesd" third prong on the coin mech switch otherwise the main coin button will not work.
How old is this? People don't use those mechanisms anymore because of the quarter on a string trick, they are all electronic sensor operated now and made those obsolete!
Thank you! This helped me troubleshoot why my coin microswitch wasn't registering. The bend in my register wire didn't allow the switch to fully depress. Followed your instructions slightly changed the angle and BINGO! Appreciate you posting this!
great video. I ended up with an empty coin door and then a mech without the microswitch so this video's helped me make sense of everything as there's no instructions with any of these parts. Thanks!
Thank you so much. I have a good understanding of how it works now. We are going to be playing some darts..
Thanks, that video was really helpfull, especially the magnet tip. Cheers!
U can buy a coin mech on amazon with the switch aready instaled
Hello how do you add the light in the coin drop
I have an issue. There are games like TMNT and X-Men that have separate credits for each player. How do I get it so that 1 coin accepter can work for 4 players? Or at least 2 players
If you can figure that out I would love you forever! Honestly the only way to do it is to wire all 4 credit buttons into the player 1 input on your encoder and it will credit them all at the same time but there is no way to share credits between the players. Sorry
hi there. I saw your video about connecting the switches to the coin acceptor. but i noticed that the button you have has 3 pins. how bout sanwa microswitches. I only see 2. and i know that the other pin is for ground since it's connected to the daisy chains. sorry for the newbie question. bought a chewlix and having problems with the wiring. and the challenging part is I'm not using pandora or jamma. but pc.
and another thing.. there are people going nuts about the China coin acceptor (in chewlix-vewlix machines) model PY-800III or PY-800IV. although someone did a way to bypass the mechanism as a solution but if you can provide a solution that will fix and understand the flow of that acceptor.. i think it will be a great informative video that will really help a lot of people about that problem. I see your video very informative. and thanks for sharing your knowledge about it :)
If you are connecting to sanwa buttons it technically doesn't matter which pins you use for the active wire or the ground. The ground just has to be daisychained to each button.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa thanks!
Do you have a video that shows how to switch the coin Mech from excepting quarters to tokens. ?
I do not because you have to switch the coin mech itself to a token mech.
Thank you.
I have an old Brunswick air hockey table and it needs a new coin mechanism the other one is broke I don't know the first thing on which is the right one to get
How do you wire it up to turn off the free play button. For example, I have retropie setup for select as coin in and coin door as coin in but if I wanted to set a game like pac man and turn off the free play and only use the coin door. Do I set the coin door as 1st, run on/off switch between the door and free play button?
You would have to physically disconnect the free play button to turn it off. If you will be switching between free play and coin door you will want to connect the coin door up as #1 so that the microswitch is always connected properly if you do disconnect the #2 free play button as that has to be connected to the open side of the microswitch. Hope that makes sense.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa I got it hooked up as coin slots as number 1's, grounds connected to free play buttons and coin slots, then have the coin slots 1&2 ran to a single switch which has the free play buttons wired to. The coin slot always works, then when I turn the switch, both free play and coin door works.
I have an ipac 2 and a control panel with coin buttons. My 1a, 2a extra inputs are taken up admin buttons. So is it possible to wire the button and the coin door to the same coin input? How would that be accomplished? I wouldn't think you could just put both wires in on top of each other and screw them down, right?
That is exactly what you do, 2 wires to one input on your ipac and 1 wire to each switch! Voila!
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Thank you.
As clear as mud. Where do you wire the Coin signal?
There are three ways to wire a button switch with a coin switch.
#1 - Parallel: both switches are SPST, switch 1, wire COM to Gnd & NO to Coin as usual and splice both into switch 2, COM & NO - COM to COM and NO to NO.
#2 - Serial: (3-way method) both switches need to be SPDT, NO & NC will be used as runners, COMs are either Gnd or Coin. How to: switch 1, wire COM to Coin, switch 2, wire COM to Gnd, join opposite switches NO to NC and NC to NO for both runners.
#3 - Parallel/Serial: (modified Casey's) need a SPDT & SPST switch with runner, wire switch 1 as normal, COM to Gnd and NO to Coin, plus NC to switch 2 NO, switch 2, wire COM to Coin and NO as the runner (already wired). If you look carefully this is a modified parallel/serial hybrid with Gnd going through switch 1 as a runner and switch 2 contacts reversed. Note: Gnd and Coin can be swapped.
Alternate #3 - Parallel/Serial: need a SPDT & SPST switch with runner, wire switch 1, COM to Coin and NO to Gnd, plus NC to switch 2 COM, switch 2, wire NO to Gnd and COM as the runner (already wired). This is Gnd and Coin swapped version, Coin is a single wire and Gnd is a daisy chained wire.
My harness came with a coin 16 green wire and also a white cable that becomes a 3 pin harness (White, yellow & black) it’s pretty long ..... so when I hit the coin button it gives me my credit... I want to get the coin mechanism working, do I hook up the green cable down to the coin mechanism or use that white cable to the coin mechanism?
The wire colors change and vary from supplier to supplier and sometimes just because they can. They seem to use scrap wire once in a while just so they don't have any waste on their end. It can be confusing but just stick to what the wiring diagram says, that is the beauty of Jamma! As for the wires and where to go, the "white" is coin for player #1, the long green is for player #2, or for pandoras box 6 and up it is the pause button. You will have to cut the white wire off of the molex connector and extend it or put a connector on it and connect to a button for credit input or to the coin door microswitch. Hope this helps!
Very helpful. Thank you !
So does the coin wire to your harness that goes to your board go to the open connection on the coin slot?
Yes, just like a regular microswitch. If you have a free play coin button and the coin door you would wire the button normally and then wire the coin door switch on the closed prong so they are opposite each other.
On Pandora, when I daisy chained coin button with coin door, only one works at a time. Either it accepts only from coin door or only coin button works but coin door doesn’t. Why not both options work simultaneously.
If you have 3 prong microswitches you have to wire 1 switch to the open prong and the second switch to the closed prong
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Thank you so much!! 😃 I literally had to google to understand nc, no and common connection. It seems on my switch both prong were side by side, instead of corners. Both coin button and door machine working fine now.
Will they each work separately? If so that is the only way they will work
@@RetroactivearcadeCa From coin button, I daisy chained my Ground wire(black) to Com(Common terminal) and daisy chained Coin wire to NC(Normally open). Now, from control panel Coin button works, also Coin Door accepts coins at the same time.
How do you power the lights for the coin door? I am finishing up my cab and getting the coin door working is the last part. I am running mine off a PC. I have an old suzo happ over under coin door. Need to get lights for it. Considering leds pwerdoff a USB? , or Getting a 12V power adapter for 12V lights?
You will have to connect a seperate 12v power line to the lights from your power supply and daisy chain them together.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa , thanks for the reply, appreciate it!
This is so cool ♡♡♡
Hi, what can I use to connect my Original Neo-Geo arcade coin door to a pc? And is it a good Idea to draw power for the coin lights from the pc Oo should I use a separate power supply? Thanks.
You can use any type/brand of arcade encoder or mini pac that is supplied by Ultimarc. A computer power supply has more than enough power to support the lights on your coin door, just be sure to find out if the lights are 5V or 12V before you wire it up!
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Thanks you. You do too much for this community.
@@scragglewaggle4109 much appreciated!
Awesome. Hey is there a way to make a box and hook a coin acceptor up to my Atari flashback 8? I have an idea to generate money for a very special charit
Technically you can do anything with it. You have to find a way to splice in your start button wire to the switch on the coin door, it works the same as a button would.
I'm not too knowledgeable about the system. Cant find schematics. But I assume if I disassemble a controller I should be able to see the start button wire and trace it back from there? Or is there a way I can find a full schematic on the atari flashback?
@@mortywhippet9982 unfortunately in don't have a schematic for you either so will have to trace it back from the controller
@@RetroactivearcadeCaThank you so much for the help :) Much appreciated :)
Awesome 👍😁 video 👌👏..
Could this work on a Pandora box, like the one in the background of your video here? Thanks
Any coin door will work with a pandoras box.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Okay thanks, I just open the control panel on the Pandora box and add wires from the coin buttons to the coin acceptor? Pretty much follow the video and add wires..
@@johnallen8334 you bet, just make sure to alternate for connections on the coin door to the third "open" prong on the microswitch otherwise both connections will not work.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa awesome 😀 I will...
Should you daisy chain if you have two coin mechs?
Mike Jacobs the ground wire yes, if you want the 1 and 2 to work properly then Daisy chain them from the coin 1 and 2 inputs just used the "cloesd" third prong on the coin mech switch otherwise the main coin button will not work.
What if you are connecting/wiring this to a SuperGun instead of a Stand Alone Encoder??
It all works the exact same way.
@@RetroactivearcadeCa Thanks!
How do you power up the lights in the coin slots when using a rasperry pi3
You will have to use a separate power source, the Pi doesn't have enough power to run a 12V lamp. You could rig up a small 5V LED if you wanted to.
Retro Active Arcade what size wire is used for this? Do you sell that wire and power cable?
Where can I find one of those coin mechanisms?
On our website
Are there any coin doors suitable for australian currency?
Any coin door will work for you, it's the coin mechanism inside that needs to be able to accept Australian currency.
Thanks, do you have any idea where I can get a decent coin mech?
How old is this? People don't use those mechanisms anymore because of the quarter on a string trick, they are all electronic sensor operated now and made those obsolete!
You told me off. ☹️