Received a game in a trade with a single slot coin door. Upon getting back home and looking inside I found this electronic coin mechanism. It plugs in by a ribbon cable into the coin door interface board.

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It was the first time I've been able to sit down a fiddle around with an electronic coin mechanism for a pinball machine. As it didn't accept any Canadian coins, I was lucky enough dig up a US $1 and a US 25c coin. Sure enough, both US coins were accepted but it recognized them both with one pulse on the left coin switch line. In settings, by switching the dollar bill acceptor to be on the left switch line it correctly recognized the label on the front of the mechanism.

So it works, but my questions are:
-Does anyone use these anymore (home or commercial operation) and what is it worth?
-Can anyone explain how to re-program it to accept different coins?
-What games had the appropriate socket for the ribbon cable on the coin door interface board? I have several WPC games that were overseas and only a couple seem to have the piece. Was it aftermarket?

Thanks for the great info. I was hoping that with the 2 blank spots as described on the label, I would be able to teach it to accept CAD $1, and $2 coins. Instead I changed out the whole door with a 2 slot one with spot for a bill validator.

Are you able to utilize these electronic mechanisms alongside a bill validator, or 2 electronic mechanisms for a 2 slot coin door? As I had to adjust the dollar bill validator spot in settings to correspond to the coin switch line in order for it to recognize multiple pulses, this make me think it wouldn't work unless they were all on the same coin switch line?

It would be nice to have multiple electronic coin mechanisms as sometimes new players don't always catch that each coin slot only corresponds to a particular coin.

Thanks, I never knew bill acceptors were not used in Europe. I could also cover the other slot, but I imagine with a little time and re-wiring you could get it to work with multiples or a bill acceptor. There are Canadian electronic mechanisms available which is why I was looking into it, but it still seems cheaper and easier to use the mechanical acceptors when using multiple slot coin doors with bill validators.