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Trouble-Shooting => Coin Mechanisms => Topic started by: brasskey on February 16, 2013, 06:38:58 pm



Title: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: brasskey on February 16, 2013, 06:38:58 pm
This is on a small square top I have.  I'm not familiar all all with these.  It doesn't have dipswitches behind the rejector like my Coinco 9800B.  The circuit board on the back I assume deals with setting the change as there's numbers on it.  It seems as though it's set for 0.25 as the mech makes the churning sound after a quarter.  The only problem is that the signal is not being sent from the mech to the machine for the solenoid to open up the gates.  To make sure that the problem wasn't with the machine, I put my 9800B mech in the machine and the bottle gates opened fine after putting the change. Any ideas what I should be looking at?  Anyone have a pdf manual for this so I can see how to set the price?


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Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: tkaz on February 16, 2013, 10:18:29 pm
There's a couple of Variprice instructions in the downloads section of the main site, see if those help you any. 


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: brasskey on February 16, 2013, 11:41:26 pm
There's a couple of Variprice instructions in the downloads section of the main site, see if those help you any. 

Unfortunately, none of the manuals in the downloads section are the same circuit board as mine. I must have a different model.


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: tkaz on February 17, 2013, 12:14:46 am
Not much info out there about these...what machine are you working on? 

It looks like the bottom three connections, NO/NC/C are for the vend switch, maybe you could try switching it from the NO to the NC connection?


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: brasskey on February 17, 2013, 09:27:38 pm
Not much info out there about these...what machine are you working on?  

It looks like the bottom three connections, NO/NC/C are for the vend switch, maybe you could try switching it from the NO to the NC connection?

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried switching those but no luck. This is on a CS-64. These coin mechs are a nightmare!


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: Slapshot42 on February 17, 2013, 10:58:12 pm
You could have a problem with the vend solenoid at the bottom of the stack??


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: brasskey on February 17, 2013, 11:11:51 pm
You could have a problem with the vend solenoid at the bottom of the stack??

I ruled that out by putting a 9800B in place of the Vari-Price.  The stack was able to open fine. Seems like there' s a lot going on with these Vari-Price units so I bet it could be a handful of things.


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: Slapshot42 on February 18, 2013, 12:14:01 am
Well crap I missed the part in the initial post about the solenoid...


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: johnieG on February 18, 2013, 02:24:48 am
This what the metal recycling bin is for... :tounge:  unless you like doing this--->  :darn:


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: brasskey on February 18, 2013, 01:47:59 pm
This what the metal recycling bin is for... :tounge:  unless you like doing this--->  :darn:

Looks like that's what will probably happen. These things are too complicated.


Title: Re: Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates
Post by: johnieG on February 18, 2013, 06:41:37 pm
Yeah, they are a mechanical nightmare, the Coinco 9800 series is a good all around coinmech for these machines, easy to fix, easy to adjust