madgerald1974

Its all good. I'll sort it. We should carry on in private message now as this is waaay off topic lol. I'll try and get them to you for the weekend.

@MPU_FIVEI have two spare cube hoppers you can have. If you are happy to message me a delivery address I'll send you them with £1 and 10p discs. That will get you started. One works perfectly, the second however is not dispensing correctly (£20 bank pays around £15-18). Might just be a dirty optical or maybe due for a cap change. I don't have the time to check it out. They both need a good clean and silicone grease up. I don't have any spare bases though so a bit of creativity with some wood and screws and it should be quite easy to mount inside your machine. Hope it helps. Cheers

Depends on your 12v power source, if you are coming direct from the 12v side of your pc power supply you should be fine, but make sure its a beefy enough PSU to handle everything, and your Pacdrive usb cable has good solid ground on its shielding. The mk2 cube hopper can pull 4A alone at 12v if a coin jams. I've added a screen grab from the Ultimarc site for convenience. But if you choose to get your 12v from a separate power source, then i personally would be running a 5v relay to protect the system. A 16 channel 5v relay module is only about 10 - 15 quid. I know it all adds up though...

OOoh thats interesting. Thank you for the correction Amusements. I will have to look into doing this myself

Haha yes I agree. Wiring diagrams can look sp overwhelming sometimes. My advice to anyone who feels this way is to not look at the whole picture. Print the sheet if you can, or create an editable inage on your screen of choice. There are 28 terminals to connect for this, just choose a colour wire and focus on that alone. Then after both ends are done you will have 26. Cross off the terminals as you go. You will soon be down to zero and have yourself a working hopper setup :). @mpu_five as far as im aware, you can only drive two hoppers because of the coin signal input. Hence why I'm using £1 and 10p. I would love to add 2p payout because as a young lad I pretty much spent my entire two week caravan holidays in the parks amusements on the good old nudge shuffle machines :). You can however add multipliers to the coin output in the settings, so for example if the payout was expecting to deliver a 50p coin you can use this to spit out 5x10p's. There are some 10p play versions on this site of my old 2p favourites so I've compromised and used those instead. When I have more space I will build a second machine dedicated to 10p / 2p payout. you will also need relays if you choose to go 12v for your leds. I think the ultimarc website shows how to wire, or its on here somewhere. Personally i find the 5v more than adequate, but each to their own. I took a punt on my cube hoppers, got a box of six off ebay for just 20 quid. The guy just wanted his shelf back! @davep180 thanks for the kind words. I hope it helps somebody

Sure, i've made a jpg wiring diagram of my system. See attached. The relays I used are HL-52s which are easily available from ebay or amazon etc. They are powered / grounded from the 5v / gnd pins in the centre of the ipac labelled for trackball. You can see the pacdrive will first send the payout signal to the relay (green wire), which will then close the 12v circuit and power the hopper (red / orange wire), which then sends a coin issued signal back to the other relay (blue wire) which closes the circuit and signals the ipac (yellow wire) and that generates the required [ or ] to acknowledge the coin. Hope that helps. Shout me for any questions and If i can help, I will cheers

Hi davep. I'm sorry for the very slow reply. I hope I'm not too late. I use these hoppers in my setup. Set to £1 and 10p. They work a treat. You will most definitely need relays. Happy to help with wiring diagrams etc if you need it? I should add mine are the parallel type not cctalk.

Thank you for the comments and likes. I've done a little more this weekend. One thing I haven't mentioned yet which is quite important is the viewing angle. Please consider this at design stage otherwise you might well have the edge of the glass topper impair your view of the screen with it being right in your line of sight! I had to do quite a bit of rework so hopefully if anyone is inspired to build their own coffee table you won't have that problem... On to coin & payout building. I decided to keep the payout tray internal for two reasons: I can see it being kicked a lot, and as the room it's housed in is multifunctional, i foresee it being filled with bottle tops and sweetie wrappers before long. For the payout, I used an old rectangular extractor fan conduit cut in half to guide the coins into the tray, which is also lined with the same sliced open conduit. Finally the cube hoppers fit on top and everything has tucked in nicely. Plenty of room for a repeat jackpot or two in the tray, and round back plenty of room for easy servicing via a door which will be fitted hopefully next weekend.

It works! Now to tidy up the edges, buttons etc give it another coat of stain and polish the glass. Anyone got 10p?

Little update for everyone. I've made a bit of progress. I've found a donor table that had a perfect glass top so with that I'm now able to measure out the rest of the cabinet. I've chosen an old ratio 19" dell monitor as it fills all the screen better and the original 17" I had was too small to read some button text through the top glass. All the cablework is done so I'm going to flip the machine right side up on some temporary legs to test them out. Should all be good then i'll finish the woodwork and get all the coin mech and hoppers in.

Has anyone attempted this? A search for "coffee table" on the forum brings up something I really didn't need to be picturing on a bank holiday monday with a hangover. Anyway, having remained quiet for sometime on the forum while studying the software and other peoples builds, I would like to share my progress with you. I was all about to give up on the project due to space limitations until my wife suggested I fit everything into a coffee table. Challenge accepted. I am running an i3 gen5 with intel HD onboard, 8gb ram and a 120gb SSD on windows 10. I have an iPac and Pac drive connected, two horrendous cheap coin mechs and two suzohapp cube hoppers with 10p and £1 discs. The coin mechs and cube hoppers run perfectly straight off the PC power supply (Yellow 12v) and I got some 5v relays from ebay for the connection between pac drive and hopper. Following the instruction for the relay it needed a 5v VCC as well as signal and ground connection to the three pins on the pcb to trigger it from the pac drive. This did not work so I bypassed all the pcb and hard wired my pac drive connection straight to the relay itself and yay it clicked into action supplying the 12v needed for the hopper. The manuals for the hopper suggested injecting a 12v supply to the coin signal wire with a 10k resistor. This also did not work so I thought i would just try the signal wire direct to the ipac and i'm happy to report it works a treat. Just had £3 worth of 10p's dumped all over the floor from a hotpot jackpot. So now I have a working system I need to get it all into a table. I'm not sure yet if I want to have a flip up lid for the screen, or have it under some smoked toughened glass with the screen angled toward the user. An obvious constraint is going to be the feature buttons, but I am happy to compromise on a second row of buttons just above the traditional holds / start etc. At least they will flash along with the virtual button on screen. Good enough for me. I have little spare time this coming month for the project, but as and when I get to tinker about with a table cab design, I will share the progress on here. Massive thanks to the creators / artists who made this happen.