Need help with Vendo Vari-Price (91E9303B-3703) - not activating bottle gates

[brasskey]

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?

[tkaz]

There's a couple of Variprice instructions in the downloads section of the main site, see if those help you any. 

[brasskey]

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.

[tkaz]

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?

[brasskey]

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!

[Slapshot42]

You could have a problem with the vend solenoid at the bottom of the stack??

[brasskey]

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.

[Slapshot42]

Well crap I missed the part in the initial post about the solenoid...

[johnieG]

This what the metal recycling bin is for...   unless you like doing this---> 

[brasskey]

This what the metal recycling bin is for...   unless you like doing this---> 

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

[johnieG]

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