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[topper2k]

I'm having a weird issue with the DOF controlled button LEDs on my cab in VPX.

 

If I open VPX and launch a table, my DOF buttons don't seem to work until after I put in enough coins to earn a credit. Then they come to life.

 

If I exit the table and relaunch it (without closing VPX) the DOF button LEDs work right away.

 

This is particularly a problem when launching tables from my front-end, because it's opening and closing VPX for each table. And it's a problem because that means coin isn't lit at the moment when you want a player to insert a coin.

 

Here's a video. If you pay real close attention, you'll see that the coin light does flicker for a fraction of a second as the table is loading the first time. Then it goes dark until I've inserted enough coins to earn a credit.

 

 

I could resort to hard wiring my coin button to always on. But that feels like a hack. And I'm worried this means there's something wrong with my DOF setup.

[mrjcrane]

Topper this may or may not even be related (maybe for a future upgrade). I did a led button upgrade recently to these  new 3 wire buttons mostly because I had issues with the old 4 pin post style. Then I'd screw up the post leads and connecting circuit sometimes when I disconnected the connecting wires to the leads. (The 4 posts had a little metal piece that grabs the connector so once it snapped into place it was hard to disconnect without breaking something.) The new LED buttons have been redesigned converted to a simple 3 pin connector for both ends of the button (at the button and at the control board). It makes the connecting and disconnecting issue free now and I have less loose wires now. I highly recommend these buttons.

 

For me I just prefer to have all my buttons always on because I like all the lights. So the button is either in an ALWAYS ON mode or ALWAYS OFF mode depending on how you arrange the 4 wire leads to your button. 1 pair for illumination, 1 pair for button control (which can be flip flopped base on always on or always off) so the illumination part is unidirectional because that is the nature of LED lights (LED's are diodes are unidirectional, not like incandescent which can the leads can be flipped in either direction and that won't matter), but....I think the on/off of the light is actually tied to the on/off mode of the button part of the circuit.

 

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Edited by mrjcrane, 07 February 2021 - 08:47 PM.