Coin Doors

Coin Doors

A coin door can be added to your arcade cabinet purely as a decoration, or for functionality.

It is posslble to wire up a coin door with switches and interface them to a keyboard encoder. The encoder sends a signal that corresponds to the "credit" command. This allows a coin to act as it would in a real machine. Most coin doors have the same type of switch as a normal arcade button which makes it simple to wire it up to your encoder.

You can also wire up the lights on your coin door by taking 12 volt power from your pc and running it to the light bulbs on the door.

Coin Counters

Coin Counters can be easily wired between a single coin acceptor. Simply wire Ground on your microswitch to the 5V line on your counter. Then wire the Ground on your Counter to your encoder ground.

Alternatively to wire up all your coin acceptors/buttons you'll need to put diodes between your encoder and each microswitch. A diagram on how to wire a coin counter at TheNasty's website.