StarMech coin mech help

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Trevor

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Hello all

Does anyone have any info on the StarMech SM 101 coin mechanism?

I have been given 2 which I would like to use in a home grown arcade
machine but the 'giver' didn't know anything about them.

TIA

Trev
 
Most coin mechs are simple on/off triggers .. Unless its one of the advanced
programmable type (which take multiple types of coins, and can give change)

older arcade machines used a pre-sized mech that would take only one size
coin, and had a momentary switch it pressed as a validated coin passed it ..
the output to the machine was simply a 2 wire set that closed when the coin
went thru.

Some more advanced mechs had 4 wires, 2 for the trigger, and 2 for an
electromagnet which closed the coin slot when it wasnt ready for coins ..
this helped as an anti-cheating method .. stops the coin-on-a-string method
:)

If it has a couple of jumpers on it, they are usually used to set up
multiple triggers ..

Ie, set one way, it will send 2 pulses on the wires, per coin .. which
allows you to configure how much a game will cost ..

(so if you have a game board that req's 2 coins to start, you can set this
mech to work with only one coin)

For more details on this kind of thing try:
rec.games.video.arcade.collecting



"Trevor" <trev.matthews@No_Ozemail.SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
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Hello all

Does anyone have any info on the StarMech SM 101 coin mechanism?

I have been given 2 which I would like to use in a home grown arcade
machine but the 'giver' didn't know anything about them.

TIA

Trev
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This mech has some kind of descrimination head, a 12 pin header (I
think for the game interface) and 2 banks of 8 DIP switches. On board
is a 68705 mcu + 2 x ADC0808s and several support chips. A solenoid
passes a 'valid' coin thru to the coin collector, anything else is
automatically routed thru to the reject slot.

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:43:53 +1000, "Lord-Data" <data@ihug.com.au>
wrote:

Most coin mechs are simple on/off triggers .. Unless its one of the advanced
programmable type (which take multiple types of coins, and can give change)

older arcade machines used a pre-sized mech that would take only one size
coin, and had a momentary switch it pressed as a validated coin passed it ..
the output to the machine was simply a 2 wire set that closed when the coin
went thru.

Some more advanced mechs had 4 wires, 2 for the trigger, and 2 for an
electromagnet which closed the coin slot when it wasnt ready for coins ..
this helped as an anti-cheating method .. stops the coin-on-a-string method
:)

If it has a couple of jumpers on it, they are usually used to set up
multiple triggers ..

Ie, set one way, it will send 2 pulses on the wires, per coin .. which
allows you to configure how much a game will cost ..

(so if you have a game board that req's 2 coins to start, you can set this
mech to work with only one coin)

For more details on this kind of thing try:
rec.games.video.arcade.collecting



"Trevor" <trev.matthews@No_Ozemail.SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
news:5ngij0p6ce9m8vbujcje0odt0oh77osi1n@4ax.com...
Hello all

Does anyone have any info on the StarMech SM 101 coin mechanism?

I have been given 2 which I would like to use in a home grown arcade
machine but the 'giver' didn't know anything about them.

TIA

Trev
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mm.. definitely a lot more modern then ..

For building a home system, your probably going to find you'd have more luck
selling those ones, and picking up a cheap set of simple trigger ones, since
your unlikly to ever want to put coins in anywya, aside from novelty value
(i used to own 10 arcade machines for a while)

To help sell em, or for more details, rec.games.video.arcade.collecting is
definitly your best place to start .. can't go past that place for arcade
help :)

"Trevor" <trev.matthews@No_Ozemail.SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
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This mech has some kind of descrimination head, a 12 pin header (I
think for the game interface) and 2 banks of 8 DIP switches. On board
is a 68705 mcu + 2 x ADC0808s and several support chips. A solenoid
passes a 'valid' coin thru to the coin collector, anything else is
automatically routed thru to the reject slot.

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:43:53 +1000, "Lord-Data" <data@ihug.com.au
wrote:

Most coin mechs are simple on/off triggers .. Unless its one of the
advanced
programmable type (which take multiple types of coins, and can give
change)

older arcade machines used a pre-sized mech that would take only one size
coin, and had a momentary switch it pressed as a validated coin passed it
..
the output to the machine was simply a 2 wire set that closed when the
coin
went thru.

Some more advanced mechs had 4 wires, 2 for the trigger, and 2 for an
electromagnet which closed the coin slot when it wasnt ready for coins ..
this helped as an anti-cheating method .. stops the coin-on-a-string
method
:)

If it has a couple of jumpers on it, they are usually used to set up
multiple triggers ..

Ie, set one way, it will send 2 pulses on the wires, per coin .. which
allows you to configure how much a game will cost ..

(so if you have a game board that req's 2 coins to start, you can set this
mech to work with only one coin)

For more details on this kind of thing try:
rec.games.video.arcade.collecting



"Trevor" <trev.matthews@No_Ozemail.SPAM.com.au> wrote in message
news:5ngij0p6ce9m8vbujcje0odt0oh77osi1n@4ax.com...
Hello all

Does anyone have any info on the StarMech SM 101 coin mechanism?

I have been given 2 which I would like to use in a home grown arcade
machine but the 'giver' didn't know anything about them.

TIA

Trev
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