The reason there was a grey wire commoned with the positive was for the total coin counter function. The other grey counter wire pulls down to the negative rail via a transistor to click round a mechanical counter connected between the two grey wires. It's a function that is included for professional gaming machines where there is a requirement to keep a permanent log of coins for duty/accounting purposes. The pulse output is for the logic board, Arduino or MAME interface.
My counter is set up for a jukebox using a relay which sends the pulses to the computer via USB,my problrm is the sofftware cant pick up all the pulses even though i have it set on slow,any idea what is happening
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@@aughanure1 i think on of your 'converter' elements is to slow.. the relay - if it is a mechanical one - can be really slow... and so misses the pulses.. also the software - if the way / input you are using is not meant for fast pulses from another electronic it eventually things the pulses are bounces from a switch and filters them out... lots of things that can go wrong here...
i followed step by step and i hook the coin wire and the counter wire to the interface like yours… and it doesnt work… no signal on the pc if i put a coin in the coin acceptor…. Switches are on N.O and Slow…. Doesnt needs a GND wire instead of the counter wire on the interface?!🤔
@@nemu0302 did you program your coins correctly? Remember you need to set how many pulse each coin will produce. Use a multimeter to test if it’s pulsing but your pc isn’t registering them.
hello, have you noticed that this coin acceptor kills some USB boards? Mine sometimes work and than not. Der ist some Current on the Acceptor wires and different current on the USB Board. One board went dead with ghost inputs on the other all buttons besides the ones i plugged in are not responding anymore. In all i tried the Acceptor.
you my friend just saved me a ton of headaches! gotta love the Chinese to English manual instructions NUMBERICAL???? HAHAHA! also one minor thing I noticed was that you don't want to have the multi-meter leads connected to the counter and coin wires when you are sampling the coins. Doing so caused me to get "0" on the counts and then I would need to power off the unit and redo the procedure. Leaving the multimeter disconnected until it was programmed solved this issue for me. Hope this helps someone else out, Thanks for the video!
Thanks for this vid dude, got that exact model of coin acceptor coming in the post..! If anyone (especially in the UK) is looking for a USB controller suitable for this kind of device, may I suggest the Player X PCB, easy to set up, made in sheffield, and inexpensive- i have 4.
Seems I get a pulse when connected to the multimeter, when connected to the controller it shorts the circuit l and I get more than one pulse. Still trying to figure out what is wrong
So ignore my first comment, I followed wiring again, and as I found out that the power source was the issue. I initially used the PC power supply to provide 12v to the coin acceptor. I made a connection using a sata cable and powered up the device, but the pulse still didn't work. My guess is that the sata power cable was delivering more amps than the coin acceptor needed, causing the problem.
Thank you my friend. I don't know anything about electronics and I've been trying to install this in an arcade for 3 years. And this is because a "Brazilian guy" explains it all in an impressively complicated way (it never worked that way). As explained here, it's simple and... IT WORKS. Thank you very much.
Sometimes my coin acceptor goes crazy causing the usb encoder to fail. When I unplug the coin acceptor the usb encoder works fine. Seems to be that the coin acceptor iis sending electricity to my usb encoder. Any idea?
You should test the wires coming from the coin acceptor going to the usb encoder using a voltmeter, you should not be getting any voltage from them. Also test them using continuity function, those wire should act as a momentary switch , meaning they should just close momentarily and then go back to normally open. You’ll need to add coins to do these test.
@@eldon226 Thanks for the response! For some reason my usb encoder works with the coin accpetor on NC mode, the problem with the NC mode is that it sends a constant pulse to the usb encoder. When i use the NO mode sometimes works and sometimes makes the usb encoder go crazy. I read that some people use a zener diode to regulate the pulse, according to these people the coin accpetor sends voltage to the usb encoder. The only difference I have with your setup is that mny usb encoder connectors havew 3 pins, one of them is for iluminate the buttons, but I am not using that wire. Maybe there is something wrong in my setup or my coin acceptor is defective.
@@gasabbath my assumption is that you have a faulty coin acceptor or a different model than I used, not sure how I can help apart from suggesting you try a new one
I got my coin acceptor to work using your video! My PCB had a three pin layout for each button. In case someone else has a similar setup, I had to move the white (coin) and grey (counter) wires around on those pins before I found a combination that worked: One went to ground and the other to the pin next to ground. Thanks again for your video!
Thank you for your video. I am a arcade machine vendor and I usually deal with pool tables, jukeboxes etc Recently I bought a taito cocktail machine and I bought this very same coin acceptor to use in my machine on location and this coin acceptor fitted very easily on the machine. It's very handy to have a multi coin acceptor instead of the old macanical coin acceptor that only takes one coin. I just didn't understand the instructions that came with this coin acceptor. Thanks again for your help.
Thanks for the video eldon226. I have 2 coin acceptors and 1 12v power supply. My question is, can I power the 2 coin acceptors with 1 power supply? If so, how? Can i connect the 2 positive wires together and the 2 negative wires together into the power supply? Or do I need some kind of Y-spliter?
An excellent tutorial, mate. I never thought I'd get my head around it but you made it nice and simple. My Game Elf cabinet is now accepting coins. Thank you so much!
How to reset? I cant take off the 20cents o programmed. I only want 3 coins, 50cents, 1 euro and 2 euro. Ps the 3 buttons after power on doenst work. Anyone?
@@FilipeIria87 Here are the instructions for factory reset: 1. Turn off power 2. Hold the "SET" and "ADD" buttons 3. Turn on power while pressing both buttons 4. Release the buttons when hearing beeps
Hi Eldon. We recently started using the device as a timer. It worked for 2 days, but then stopped working. The timer/counter still works, but there is no power coming to the socket (UK). We want to use it as a timer for a washing machine (NL/EU plug). We need to use it with a UK-EU adapter. Specially bought a grounded one for this purpose. So now no power. With another adapter you can see that there is some (too low) current on the USB port, see blue light in the photo. For example, it is possible to charge your phone with this, but not via the regular plug (white). What is wrong? I have already removed the plug from the holder to check the connections properly, that seems fine now, but it still doesn't work. Could I get in contact with you for suggestions?
I’m not sure how I can help you with this, I’m not an expert with this product. The only thing I know to do with it is what I’ve shown in my video. If it was doing what you wanted for two days I’d suggest maybe getting a new one to at least verify that your connections are good and your old item is faulty.
Thank you so much. I have a somewhat different model (accepts six different coins, no need to switch off after initial setup / before sampling), but without you would have had no idea, where to connect my USB-Joystick-Adapter or program this thing!
@@widearchshark3981 no, that’s because the coin acceptor is interfacing with the controller as a switch. It’s not sending voltage, just opening and closing a circuit. Just like any other button that is connected to the controller.
I followed the same setup, and I have exactly the same encoder, I connect to PC instead and noticed that in gamepad settings, even I do not put any coin, it seems still sending pulses, on setting window, when a button is clicked, you can tell on the windows and with this coin acceptor, even I do not put any coin, I stll see the button randomly get clicked, is this s faulty one or anything I missed ? please help.
@@eldon226 thank you so much for replying my message after years ... you are awesome. I don't know how to use multimeter I am afrid and could not work out a solution, I saw someone mentions they have similar issue and after add a relay the problem is solved, again, I have no idea what relay is or how to install it.... so basically when connected, in windows gamepad settings, you can see a button is clicked, with this one, I only connected the gray cable and I can see the button indicator on screen randomly clicked every few seconds, like it is sending pulses continuningly. anything do you suggest me to give a try? really really wish to get it working, I bought a 1up arcade and once I have the coin door fitted, that would make my life completed. :-)
@@haifengsu you should be using the gray and white wires to connect the button you want to be used as your coin button. Hope you get it figured out soon.
@@eldon226 Hi, thanks, I've tried that and it does simulate button click but without inserting any coin, looks like it sends out random pulse even no coin is inserted, I've ordered another one in case I am wasting time on a falty device. spent too much time on it. will let you know how I get on, thanks for the reply. 🙂
Hi Eldon! Thanks for the clear instruction! I had no clue without this and only the manual. The only problem I hav is that I tried plastic coins that we would like to use but are not registered by the meter. Do you have a suggestion? Which coins could be used?
You can use any type of coin, they could be real or fake, the material they are made from doesn’t matter either. Just make sure whatever coins you decide to use are not so large that they can’t fit and not so light that they don’t have enough momentum to roll through the slot. You’ll need to program the coin acceptor to whatever coin you want to use.
Hi! It's not registering it in the RGUI of the emulator, but in the very first control config, it's always getting a clear signal... Do you have any idea why? It is working normal on everything else - when I Configure it in the beginning control config, it gets clear signals and always behaves like it should, but to the damn emulation RGUI, it registers the signal, but always jumps back to "none" as soon as I drop a coin (if it wouldn't get a signal, it wouldn't jump back to none, so it gets a signal but just refuses to take it as a button... All the other regular buttons are configurable like this)
hi sir my name is Dileep , i am getting all the way correctly with the coin sensor which i bought but a problem is after i finish all the settings i.e., H1,P1,F1 and press set button i could not see E on the LED display to end up the program and i could not able to do coin samplings
Can anyone help me to set up coin acceptor for my vending machine? It’s oranfresh vending machine, there is no manual or anything and company doesn’t respond to anything. I can’t figure out the wires from the board to coin acceptor.
I have my coin acceptor programmed and wired up, but it's not registering a button press on my arcade when the coin is dropped. However, if I switch the coin acceptor to normally closed it registers continuous button presses. So, a signal is being sent to the USB encoder. I have no idea what to do or how to correct this
Great tutorial, but where on earth could I get that USB encoder? I'm in the process of making a machine for public use and all I'd need is a simple quarter input to work.
Link Hero Of Time you can use just about any USB encoder but this is the one I used. rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F302201377219
Really Great video (much better than mine) I will point to yours for further info in my old one. I never knew how to set up multiple different coins, until now I only could use 50p for one pulse, now I have £1 for two pulses. Cheers
Is this possible to do on a PC build? I have Windows 7 like mega hidden and disabled tons of elements, killer instinct Auto runs if the machine is unplugged And restarted.
MelodyZE I am not sure if that can be done, but I do know you can have your emulator or front-end auto start when you turn on your pc from a full shutdown. Within the emulator or front-end you might have an option to start last played game. I've never personally done it though so I'm not sure.
The use of diodes is not to reduce volts, they allow current to flow in one direction. Also this device needs 12v, not 5. Next, connecting and or using any electronic component incorrectly can damage other equipment they are connected to. The way I am using the coin acceptor is just like the other push buttons on your joystick. The only difference is that the coin acceptor has two additional wire which needs to be connected at a 12v source.
No, I don't think you can do that. I think I know what you're trying to accomplish though, you can go into your mame configuration and set it to require 2 coins to start a game instead of 1 coin.
I did just what you instructed, but when I enter a coin in MAME it does not register. It works fine in the Retropie menu when I use L2 for the coin, just not in MAME. Any ideas how I can fix this?
You can configure your mame emulators to use any button for coin, does pressing select work for your coin? Which emulator are you using for mame? Does any button work for adding coins?
@@eldon226 Hi, I tried using the select and various other buttons for mapping, but it won't register in the emulator. The coin selector works because it registers fine for the game pad configuration outside of the emulators, but when I enter Mame (2003 or mame4all), it doesn't register as an input. However, I tried it on my pc Mame and it registers fine. So, I think I need to reset the emulators controls in Retroarch and start all over again. Do you know how to do this? Thank you!
@@CrackerJayherber you can try to use a keyboard with mame to edit the config file, access the setting by pressing tab on your keyboard. Set your coin button there. You can also try to use the configure input in emulation station mail menu. That should work for all retroarch emulators ( including mame 2003)
@@eldon226 Hi there, yes other buttons work fine for coin. But using the coin selector for any button including select does not register inside of the mame emulators(mame2003 mame4all etc.), only in the gamepad configuration. I'll try reprogramming the whole retropie again onto the micro SD and start over again. There is nothing wrong with the coin selector. It works fine when connected to my pc and using any emulator works great. Thanks for your reply
Can you explain to me how connecting pulses and coin counter end up operating like a button? Multiple pulses register as a button press but wouldn't coin counter only send once per coin?
Toneh Bam I know they do the same thing a button does because I connected them to a multimeter and used the continuity function to test them. I know it's also capable of counting the amount of coins that are inserted too, I never tried to use that feature nor am I interest in it.
@eldon226 i make the same like you... but my problem is when i drop a coin that is set to 5 impulse my mame only reads 3 pulses. i make the settings slow like you... do you have i idea what i can do?
Arturo Rapa yes, you need to change the settings on the game itself. Some games are set with different values as default. For example, some games require that you insert two coins for you to get one credit. So you'll need to change that and set it to one for one. Hope this help and fix your problem.
@eldon226 Hi mate i have the same coin acceptor with timer box and relay connected to it. The question is how should i wire up arcade controller to coin acceptor and timer box so the buttons and joystick will work only when coin inserted and there's a time on timer box? I'm using it on Windows 10, BigBox and opening games through RetroArch. Looking forward to your reply as i'm stuck and can't finish up my arcade machine
I’d need to know how the timer box work. If more time is added by pressing a button, then I think the easiest solution would be to connect the coin acceptor to the timer box similar to how I connected it to the usb encoder in the video. This way the timer box is activated by adding coins. Your controllers will be connected to the timer box, easiest was might be through dpdt relay(s). Use the relay to open and close the data plus and data minus wires of the usb controller(s). The power wires of the usb can remain connected.
@@eldon226 more time is being added by adding coins for instance 10 cents 1minute, 20 - 2 and so on. I've already connected coin acceptor to timer box with relay, but don't know how to connect encoder to coin acceptor. If you give me mail i could send you the link of them on aliexpress or video of them
@@shahinmirkhudayev2107 I don’t think you should connect the coin acceptor to the usb encoder. This is because you already have it connected to the timer. The timer will limit how long a game can be played, that’s the same purpose as adding coins to a specific game. Feel free to email if I’m not understanding. eldon226@yahoo
How did you get an emulated called arcade I can't fix it anywhere please help I'm trying to make a coin opperated machine like you. Also do you know how to take the retro pi emulater off so nobody can edit the settings.
Trey Street use the folder "arcade" which is in the roms folder. Just delete the contents that you don't want under RetroPie, if you delete all of them then that RetroPie tap will go away, similar to if you delete every game from a emulator then that emulator tab will go away. Anyone familiar with RetroPie will still be able to make changes if that wasn't to though using other methods to access those settings.
Hey I have original arcade machines and I want the arcade games that I have to be on my retro pie arcade. Can you personal message me the link to where you got your arcade Roms.
Can you make a video that "how to use coin acceptor for Arduino" Or how can I take the valu of "p" when coins drop.I want value of P in my LED screen through Arduino. Thanks
Does it act like a button? I used a USB encoder and connected to raspberry pi, then connected to gpio pin on rip and it worked. I have a question: how many volts does it pulse 5v or 12v? I am scared that it might damage my USB encoder on the long run. And also thanks! I had a coin acceptor lying around from my old claw machine and I've been trying to do this but didn't know until I came across this video today. Keep up the good work!!!
james labz make sure the return mechanism is not faulty, push the coin return and observe what happens, watch what happens when you insert a coin to see if its because of the return mechanism. Also make sure the coins you're using are not too large. That's all I have for now.
Hello 4 you video my Coin Acceptor working fine THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I got 2 Qestions 1. How is full reset this coin acceptor ? 2. At Mame, in games midway MK, WWF WRESTLEMANIA, etc. you also get credits despite leaving the game, if not how you repaired
KRIS B if your game saves the coins from the last time you played the game that would be changed in the game settings and not the coin acceptor. If you want to reset the coin acceptor you can try this instruction (I've never reset mine so I'm not 100 percent sure on it) make sure no power is being sent to the coin acceptor, hold the SET and ADD buttons, apply power to the coin acceptor while still holding those two buttons. Release them after about 10 seconds. This will put it back to factory settings, all your programming will be deleted.
