Hey everyone!! I bought a snack vending machine from a retiring coworker. I have had it for over a year and haven't experienced many problems. Recently, I discovered a coin jam in the TRC-6000 coin op. I cleared the jam and immediately afterwards it would not accept coins. They would fall to the coin return. I attempted resetting the machine by unplugging from the wall power source. It worked for a few hours but then stopped accepting coins again. This went on for a few days. In frustration, I unplugged the coin op from the machine while the machine was still on. (Ill come back to this in a minute). I also pushed some buttons inside that said reset. The buttons were side by side on what appears to be some type of mother board. This deleted all the pricing in the machine. I set up the pricing again and continued to have the intermittent vending.

I then began to experience the machine accepting money but not registering, both bills and coins. Sometimes the there would be up to a 10 seconds delay before registering. I contacted a local vending repair company. He had sold his vending company but offered to take a look hearing that this machine was in a police facility.

Of course when he arrived the machine worked flawlessly. Based on the information I had given him he suggested replacing the coin mech. He also mentioned that I may have shorted the coin mech by unplugging the mech from the machine with the power still on. I held off on doing that thinking it could be a bigger problem since the bill acceptor would take bills and not register the money.

I contacted another area MEI/Mars authorized repair facility and he agreed it didn't think it was the coin mech. Having been off for a week for a funeral I told him when I get to work I would confirm the exact symptoms and call him back.

I returned to work that night and the machine worked properly for the next two weeks. Currently, the machine will accept bills but not register on the machine and the coin mech keeps dropping g the coins to the coin return.

Sorry for being long winded but I know more info is better than incomplete info. Would anyone have any suggestions based on the above conditions?? Your help is appreciated!!!

Also, it is not uncommon for coworkers to shake the machine to retrieve vending items that may have been stuck.....