Today, at a car dealership, I saw an old Dixie-Narco machine with the squarish buttons in a 4x2 layout, and noticed that it was modded with an LED digutal display in place of where the red "Use Exact Change" light would normally be located; a small round LED to indicate exact change was added to its side.
I wonder, has anyone seen something like that before? If so, who is the manufacturer of such retrofit kits?
Old Dixie-Narco machine retrofitted with LED digital display?
Started by Andros 1337, Sep 03 2011 08:21 PM
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Posted 05 September 2011 - 10:07 AM
Yes, there are kits available for that upgrade on soda machines. On changers like the Mars TRC-6800H, there usually is a harness coming from the changer, that can plug into a display on the machine. That feature is commonly used with those kinds of upgrades, and is the only way the display is able to have machine data displayed on it.
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Posted 05 September 2011 - 11:29 AM
We had used a retrofit kit from Vendors Exchange to do something like that. I believe it was made by Universal Controls out of CA. It takes about 45 min to install. It will convert your old single price machine to a multi price machine. It will allow you to set differtent prices for each column. It also will give a digital readout of sales totals, resettables sales, sales by column and of course gives you the interface for a bill validator. Actualy, the kits worked quite well for years. I believe they were around $200 and then you would need a mech & validator.
