I have an old (I assume) v475. I bought it for cheap and it has worked great for 3 years now. Recently I had a problem with the Coinco BA30B bill exchanger. It basically had a flashing LED which said to have it serviced. I tried to service it myself with no luck so I bought a refurbished unit. I put the refurbished unit in and now the machine will take bills and change but it will not dispense.

Price is set at 75 cents. If you put 50 cents in you can hit the coin return button and get your 50 cents back. If you put a dollar in it gives 25 cents back as change. The "use exact change" light, lights up when you put a dollar in the bill exchanger or when you put 75 cents in coins in. I think it used to do this when it dispensed product. So it is like it thinks it is dispensing product but it is not actually doing it.

Any help or suggestions would be great. I check the Vendo website but it looks like they no longer support the V475.

The machine worked perfectly before. Even when the bill exchanger had failed and been in service/error/repair mode the coin exchanger worked fine and it would dispense product with coins just not obviously with bills.


To make sure I have everything hooked up correctly... on the "brain" of the bill exchanger there are to sets of plugs, one small one with I think 4 pins and then a larger one with maybe 10 (complete guess) pins. I only have the 10-pin harness connected for I don't see anything to put in the 4-pin and I cannot remember if there was one. I assume no since I can't find anything.

I also check the relay which is a "Potter Brumfield" "KU-4156" (120v 50/60hz) 353343. I had an issue earlier where that came undone and it didn't dispense, I taped it to the harness and it worked fine. My issue is that the light kicks on like it is dispensing but it doesn't release product. If I unplug the relay it won't accept money so I assume the relay is fine. Maybe it is worth replacing for I think it is a cheap part.


Thanks

I am pretty new to this vending thing. Been running one machine at work for about 2.5 years. Only doing it because the guy that used to do it moved and sold the machine to me, basically so we could still have a soda machine at work.

Machine is a Pepsi machine that does cans or like 16 oz. bottles only.

Machine has ran great for the most part. I have cleaned the bill exchanger a few times to correct any problems. Right now the service light is on (blinking like 6 times or something). Anyone know what this means exactly? Can I service it? Do I need a new board? If I buy a new BA30B will that fix the problem (the current one needs new belts, and is pretty worn)?


Any help you can provide would be great.

TIA