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I lack in everything, still giving it a go. You never know, I may blow up!

This is very much of interest!! I think its lack of people's knowledge here, that is the lack of comments......cause this is some heavy shit going on here Reg. Most people dont know how to put a light bulb in FFS. Please dont let this put you off as am sure theres a lot of people watching this with jealous content. Me included!!!!! Great stuff.

Nah you’ll be fine - I don’t have that many skills here - the only things we blow up is our wallets when it goes wrong !

Well did not do as much as planned and also suffering from a knackered back - so I hope the wonders of an iPad, cloud sharing of pictures works. The goal here was to wire up the buttons. This thread is a little picture heavy but a good point of reference. The last two pictures of the previous post show the loom that presents itself into a connector. That connector can plug directly into the front of the PC case also shown above. The goal here is to reuse as many parts as possible - if it’s not broken don’t fix it. Using a multimeter the wires were buzzed out to check that we knew what everything was. The picture below is what was connected to the buttons. The picture below is the wires that were connected into the PayLink device from the above post. These are the critical cables and a loom that already exists. The PC was stripped of everything not needed. This is really going to be a frame / shell of all the parts needed for the rest of the cabinet. It had an amp, it had a PSU, it had connections for the loom and it had a 24v PSU. The cables from the loom plugged directly into the front of the PC via the connectors shown. below. This then linked to the PayLink device that was removed. The one problem you have when using an ATX power supply from the PC is that with no PC, it is always turned off. You need to fix this. The way this is done is you connect two wires as shown. I was fortunate that the PC had an extension block of wires from the PC PSU to the system board, so this is what was cut and linked ( the two wires ). This should ensure the PC PSU turns on when it gets a power source. The next challenge was to convert a molex connector to power the button bulbs, all of them. The plan is to have them all on. Note that it is the yellow and black wires needed. With the adapter for the PSU mod plugged in and the single LED bulb, time to test. The bulb worked. Next it was update the buttons, I wanted the legends removed and silver looking buttons to match the frame. The inserts were removed of the buttons and replaced with silver / grey tissue type wrapping paper. The final part is to power on the LEDs at boot. Remember this picture... The top connector has all the LEDs and the ground. Basically two connections are needed. One ground ( as its common to all buttons and linked ) and then the live to each button. As I am going to have them all on at once, this is now easy. A common connector made as below. The ground wire goes to the black cable and all the live cables for the LEDs go into the red cable. The final view of the PC looks like this. The connector show above with the the single ground wire from the buzzed out cables goes into the black wire as above on the custom connector and the button live cable ( 7 into 1 ) go into the other connector is taped to the base of the case. Finally - when power is presented - the buttons should all come on. This uses existing looms and effectively makes the old wiring recycled. Powering on... Eureka... Next stage if my back is ok is to get the PC setup with a menu and couple of games to test. Aftert that, keyboard controller setup... ...then the coin hopper etc. We are getting here - hope this picture journey is of help and or interest.

Ha - yes - like the USB ports ! Tonights work was interesting. Taking a good look at the PC, looks like a lot of the components from the first cabinet were actually inside the second. Taking out what was not needed leaves me with the following... 24v PSU Amp Standard PSU ( that powers everything ) The front of the PC looks like this... The red connector takes the feeds to the PayLink devices ( that won't be used ). However when you look at the Switches 1 and Switches 2, I reckon I can use the existing wiring with mininal work to attach to an iPac. That will feed upwards for the buttons on the cabinet using the exiting looms. Tomorrow evening when I get a chance to look at this some more is going to be some very careful cutting and testing. End goal is to have it operational apart from the coin stuff by the weekend.