Tilt Timer, Tilt Output, & Self Inhibit 
The Tilt Timer and Self Inhibit functions are activated by any of the following: 1.) slow or struck coin, 2.) reverse direction coin, 3.) BadCoinCount Defense, or 4.) other system function problem. The purpose of this defense is to reject anything a perpetrator does for a short period of time once he has triggered the timer. In this way, if he once fails for an instant at doing his stunt perfectly, the unit trip into Self Inhibit until the Tilt Time has expired. For any activity detected during this period, the Tilt Timer will be set back up to the full Tilt Time value so that continued attempts are always rejected. The Tilt Time value is set using the P command of the Serial Port Protocol. Typically about 1 to 2 seconds (factory default TiltTime = 4 = 1.333sec) is recommended for best performance. By the time the perpetrator leaves, the Self Inhibit TiltTime will have expired and the Xeptor will be ready to accept coins again from an honest customer. Electrical specifications for the Tilt Output can be found on the Personality Plug page.

There are some special rules/features associated with the Tilt Output that may impact your choice of setting depending on the needs of the machine receiving the signal. These rules are as follows.

Pulse Timing Information For OEM's
Pulse Duration Tolerance: The internal timing of the Xeptor limits resolution to 1.333ms intervals, thus all output pulses are actually the nearest multiple of 1.333ms. For example, a 21ms pulse will actually be 21.333ms typical. When coins are being fast-fed, the internal timing mark for the 1.333ms interval may be delayed by other important sensor reading activities for a following coin and there is some small (<1%) probability that the /Sense or /Credit pulse may be as much as +/- 1ms in error of the typical value in this circumstance.

Pulse Spacing: The spacing between /Sense pulses or /Credit pulses will be no less than the width of the pulse itself. So, even if the coins are flying fast and happen to be nearly edge to edge, pulses will never run together, but as they are queued up, will take as long as necessary to serially send them out per the selected pulse timing (and minimum pulse spacing).

/Sense And /Credit Timing Relationship: The /Sense pulse starts when the validity of the coin is known. This happens when the leading edge of the coin is approximately half way through the Xeptor. The /Credit pulse starts when the trailing edge of the coin cleared the bottom built-in credit sensor just below the gate relay. These pulse events are driven by positional triggers and are not affected by coin speed or pulse duration. How the /Credit and /Sense pulses relate to one another in terms of overlap will depend on the actual coin speed and the pulse durations selected. (Note: As noted in the chart above, even Xeptors without internal Credit Optics will produce a /Credit pulse, however its positional trigger is when the trailing edge of the coin is about in the center of the Xeptor. Obviously, without the installed Credit Optics, this is the last it sees of the coin, and does not guarantee that it successfully went past the gate relay rake.)

Multiple Pulse Coins: When a coin is defined as having a Value of N, then it will produce N /Sense pulses and N /Credit pulses, each pulse train starting as described in the paragraph above. If the interest for using this feature is tokenization or accepting multi-denominational coins, please also review the information found at the following link: http://www.idxinc.com/NRIemulation.htm.