Star Castle and Armor Attack (among others) use a 3 lug switch in their coin doors that is attached to both the PCB and a coin counter. The NO connection goes to the coin counter and the NC connection goes to the PCB to give it credit. The PCB will NOT give credit unless it gets a coin counter hit first... I assume to make it harder to bypass the counter.
Anyway, I am trying to use a coin door "lock switch" which only has 2 lugs. With Star Castle, I can tie both the NC and NO connections and it will read both and will credit the counter and will coin up the game. It works great. Armor Attack is a different story. It will work as intended for the first credit... then after that it looks for a separate NO connection from the coin counter... which it doesn't get because it's tied to the other NC connection... so it sits with 1 credit...each time I credit up it will hit the counter but not coin up the game. If I remove the wires and short them independent from each other it works great. I also noticed something...and here is my question...
If I just short out the counter... it goes in to a "half count" ... but while it's shorted I can credit up as many times as I want. So I could ground out the counter... then the switch works great... BUT... is that mechanically stressing the counter? Is there some electronic device activated in the counter? I listen but I can't HEAR a coil or anything... will I burn out the counter using the method I propose? Is there some other way to bypass the counter?
Thanks!
Anyway, I am trying to use a coin door "lock switch" which only has 2 lugs. With Star Castle, I can tie both the NC and NO connections and it will read both and will credit the counter and will coin up the game. It works great. Armor Attack is a different story. It will work as intended for the first credit... then after that it looks for a separate NO connection from the coin counter... which it doesn't get because it's tied to the other NC connection... so it sits with 1 credit...each time I credit up it will hit the counter but not coin up the game. If I remove the wires and short them independent from each other it works great. I also noticed something...and here is my question...
If I just short out the counter... it goes in to a "half count" ... but while it's shorted I can credit up as many times as I want. So I could ground out the counter... then the switch works great... BUT... is that mechanically stressing the counter? Is there some electronic device activated in the counter? I listen but I can't HEAR a coil or anything... will I burn out the counter using the method I propose? Is there some other way to bypass the counter?
Thanks!
