Help with coinco

Group i have 4 coinco unit all 9800's and i cant get one to work in my Dixie Naarco machine.. I plug the units it
and it illuniates the correct change light on the door, but any money inserted goes right to the coin return in the door...
How do i go about fixing this? Is there a test mode or could i have something else wrong with the machine in the vending part?
Who do i contact for fixing these units?

[MoonDawg]

Got product in the machine?  If not the coins are supposed to return

yep, three rows of product..

[johnieG]

Assuming the coinmech(s) are full of nickels to provide change, & the racks are full of cans/bottles enough to turn off that columns "empty" switch ( this can be confirmed by that columns "empty" light NOT being "on", for that selection's button) the buttons, as well as the empty & vending rack switches, are wired in series, that is to say, that if one of them is bad, it will effect the rest of the buttons, if a switch goes bad in a middle section, usually only half of the buttons will work/vend, if one goes bad near the end racks, then it's possible that all of the buttons won't work, or only on selection will, the others being dead, this should help you determine aproximatly where to start looking,

But the "correct-change" light being on all the time for all four mechs, tells me that maybe you don't have enough nickels in the change tubes....this would cause the mechs to reject all coins as you've noted, unless you've set the mech to accept coins even if it doesn't have enough change (nickels)...

Thanks for the repsose, now when you say the buttins wont work? Were are these? This machine is a bottle machine with
a glass access door that you pull the bottles out from??
SHould i fill the change tubes up.. It looks like a dime and nickel tube..

[BryanH]

can you post a pic?  didn't know dixie narco had slant shelf machines?

[johnieG]

Quote (69crewcab @ Nov. 30 2005,2:37)

Thanks for the repsose, now when you say the buttins wont work? Were are these? This machine is a bottle machine with a glass access door that you pull the bottles out from?? SHould i fill the change tubes up.. It looks like a dime and nickel tube..

That kinda clears it up, (Yes Dixie) did make a few slant shelve vendors, is this the one I saw a while back on Ebay in the spring?) but a picture should help clear things up, the majority of Dixie/Naros are multi flavor/button machines, and of couse slant-shelf machines don't have "empty" switchs or "empty" lights.

Again Coinco S75-9800A/B series coinmechs did NOT accept dimes into the change tubes! if you've mistakenly filled a nickel tube with dimes, then the "correct-change" light will indeed be "On" as the dimes won't be able to activate the nickel switch located at the bottom of each change tube (too small in diameter)each tube should have at least 10 nickels in each. to start off with & see how it goes from there.

Coinco S75-9800A/B series coinmechs only use nickels in the change tubes, dime & quarters drop into the cash-box when accepted, or into the coin return cup when rejected.

Johnie
yes i bought this one back in the spring from NJ on ebay..
Its a nice machine, But i seem to be having a hard time finding anything out on a Dixie-Narco slant shelf bottle machine..
I will get a picture up... Who can i send a coinco unit for rebuilding? Or should i just buy one from ebay for $25 that claims to work etc..

[johnieG]

I thought so, I almost bid on it too! Yep, Dixie did make a few slant-shelf machines, so you got a relativly "rare" model, If your coinmech needs repair, I work on them, but if you find on on Ebay, make sure it's a working unit.(hopefully the seller has a machine to test it in, or at least a bench-tester)
and you have to post some pictures to share for sure, & I'm positive that Jim would like to put it the gallery too!  :'>

Johnie
thanks i will get some pics up tonight after work..
Is there anything i can test on the coinco unit myself? With it either plugged in or not??

What usually goes bad with the units?
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