The Coin slot

The coin door and coin acceptor arrived.

It's a well made bit of kit, all metal construction ( I guess it has to be, to protect all them lovely €0.50 coins it's gonna hold!) , nice paint finish. The light in the "Push To Reject" button is a 12 Volt bulb, which will run off the PC power supply, the Yellow and adjacant Black cable.

A rear view shot shows the coin acceptor installed in the door, they are standard parts and the coin acceptor fits in pretty easy , no tools required.

They are available in different currencys and coinage.

The door is held in place with six retaining clips.

The Microswitch

At the base of the coin door is a small rebate where a microswitch can be attached.

The microswitch has a long wire which can be bent into shape to fit into the coin acceptor, this is a lot of fun! It has to be in pretty much exactly the right spot or it will not work.

You really just have to play with it till its right.

The microswitch.

Two Microswitchs, one with wire bent into shape.

The mircoswitchs come in various different configs and to accept different weight coins, so be sure to get the right one.

Expensive they are not, so get a few, handy to have some spare one's laying around, never know what they may come in usefull for!

To integrate the microswitch into the arcade game, simply rewire the coin acceptor simulator button on the x-arcade console to the microswitch

There are only two wires, with three poles on the microswitch, your just going to connect like to like.

Nothing will blow up if you get it wrong, just wont work!

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