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Ah never knew that but i was aware of the id numbering....

Having spent some time on this issue today, I am left with a few problems if anyone can assist feel free to post away. So my pac controller fires all outputs as soon as i start the machine, it will only close down the outputs when mfme loads My hopper opto fires as soon I start the hopper and although I have a 10p hopper if i put 10p's in the hopper it will not give me all the [ brackets per coin, sometimes its better then others I was think the pulse is not long enough but the pulse relay board im using does appear to flash with the correct pulses when a coin passes the hopper The only option I have now is to up the voltage on the hopper as its currently on 12v and can go up to 24v. Money Controls Compact Hopper Like I said happy for anyone to post and solutions.

Nothing is ever simple, One hopper the opto sensor didnt seem to work, second hopper the opto output i can see the pulses on the relay board as the led lights but the relay doesnt click long enough for the keyboard character to be sent, any ideals on a simple fix? Apart from writing a pcb board to take care of the opto pulses and controlling the relay to stay closed longer to get a keypress ?

Excellent that makes complete sense I'm only using one hopper currently mainly due to no coin sorting with a chinese coin mech. The only thing I need to do now is take a feed off my hopper coin out opto to a relay to a arcade controller input and use joy2key to send a bracket.

I have lots of spare inputs on a few joystick controllers and I use joykey so I just need to operate a relay once the coin has been passed which will send a joystick button converted by joykey to a keyboard key as a bracket for mfme to know the coin has been passed I have the relay operating on opto in the pac settings when i press opto test the hopper runs, not sure what settings to put in there to make it fire in a game though, Hope this all makes sense...

Thanks for your patience, Amusements, The PAC unit i have only has outputs, so in mfme output 16 opto hopper to opto supply on the hopper or do i still need a relay ? Not quite sure where I use the brackets, i presume that is in the pac config where you normally put an lamp number ? Not set this up before so i'm just trying to figure it out, Also the other week i setup my lamps on one layout now I load the rom and the pac layout has changed a bit strange....

Thanks for the post it confirmed what i was thinking of doing luckily I had 1 single relay for my coin mech and a double relay which im now using one side for the hopper, I do have a couple of questions, Currently I have a relay coming off the pac unit on pin 16 if i test on opto the hopper will spin, the relay is currently making the 0v I presume I need to move this over the the opto so that makes it spin with an input hi or low, etc. Do I need to use the coin count or will mfme make it spin until it gets a return from the hopper ? If i need a return is that a case of sending a shortcut to mfme to say the coin has been given ? How would you suggest this passed back to mfme? From memory these hopper will stop once the number of pulses has been dispensed the matching number of coins but its been a while since I played around with one of these hoppers but i could be wrong..... I have a few parallel compact hoppers mk2, 10p blue disc but it does pass pound coins ok and certainly works ok on the test. My last questsion is what address would I find the hoppers for the settings in mfme pac id 16? maybe someone could post a pic of the settings for hoppers. Many thanks,

Hi, I am trying to wire a compact hopper with 24v 0v opto supply and coin count output I will be running the hopper with 12v as I used these hoppers before with 12v without issues, Its a parallel hopper and just want to know the easy was to wire this to my Pac controller and what settings I should use in mfme to drive the hopper, basically I need a high or a low but I believe the led controller does 5v out. Hope someone has a simple fix,

Many thanks i will look at this

21 Gig that's impressive,I don't really want to set up every machine I guess if I know the range of lamp number it would be quick to amend a new layout moving lamp numbers around for a layout etc. I have a compact mk2 hopper is that just a case of telling pac and it will send pulses to the parallel hopper not sure on the wiring just yet so feel free to advise if you know. Also added a cheap as chips coin mech that I know does pulses, the pac board I believe is for output only from memory its been a while since I looked into this but what with with weather its been a case of pull the cab into the garden and get started.

So do I need a lot of pac configuration one for each rom? Is there a stash of these or anyone willing to share? If I have to add manually how do you know what lamp is what button , the quick way ?

That makes sense, thank you

So i have my buttons installed with lamps, now i have to figure out how to get the lamps working with my pac unit and make the buttons work, First of all is this the right pac unit to do lamps and a hopper, buttons? I have another board i can write code for to accept the button inputs if the pac unit only does the lamps. I have 16 inputs i believe and two + terminals. Another question maybe a silly one but im wondering if i can get away with changing the insert on a compact hopper MK2 from green to yellow to go from 10 to pounds but will it need programming ??

Thanks Ginge, I will have a good look through and see what i can find.

I already have a one pac boards so i will be needing a second ? im aware of the id issue but not ordered a second just yet as i want sure. Anyone have an images for the buttons higher lower, etc the buttons i have dont have all the same type of font

I have a hyperspin machine but im going to change it to FruitBar I have just added a number of buttons and want to know the easiest way to set them up with iPAC I also have a coin mech to throw in the cabinet and I have a number of compact hoppers but they are 10p from memory can I just change the yellow inlay to accept £1? Might even use a £1 and a 10p hopper if anyone can shed some light on this, I can easily setup a change machine using a hopper but want to know from anyone that has thrown this volume of bits into a cabinet. So this is my Front end and its going into my cab below, .

I saw this thread was 999 posts it would of been rude to scroll past and not make it a 1000 posts, Keep up the great work jp !

Hi Stephen I couldn't really find anything that did what I wanted a front end to so I made my own frontend then added mame, vpinball, etc Not sure what front ends other people use but I'm sure some others will post Welcome to the forum, maybe worth asking an another area if no one replies