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To get the Hamilton credit card acceptor out of the unit there are 4 bolts that hold it into the acw-5. Unbolt them and the credit card acceptor comes right out. Then remove 2 screws and the acceptor comes off the holder. I then mounted the new acceptor and reversed the process, tested my credit card and everything worked great! Now I can accept credit cards with my acw-5.
So after the download procedure I noticed that my credit card acceptor was not working. It seems very easy to trouble shoot on the acw-5. There are 2 plugs (second picture) on the back of the reader the second plug (red and black wire) should be 5 V DC. While the top plug (yellow and brown) should be 5 or 8 V DC, of course it was ZERO V DC. So I need to purchase a new credit card acceptor because Hamilton does not repair the acceptors anymore. They cost $320 from Hamilton, but I called my buddy Randy Nix at Eagle Car Wash and he treated me right.
This product is coming soon and is just for MDB coin changers/coin mechs right now. But this cool new MEI product is the Cashflow Series 2000 VNR Vending Recycler. It has a flashy front bezel with leds on it and can also use standard non-flashy bezels. But the best feature is the bill recycler piece. The recycler module holds up to 30 bills then will spit them out for change instead of a bill breaker. Just think about having one of these in your entry unit and giving bills as change instead of change!
UPDATED 20160820: http://www.meigroup.com/usa/vending/vending_products/bill_acceptors/vn2700_bill_validator/datasheet.pdf
The show was packed this year and their seems to be some cool new items. I will show you some when I have a little more time, sorry.
So walking into the show I realized that there were metal detectors? Really? For Bette Midler? Was there an assassination atempt I missed in the news? But after the metal detector, there was “empty your pockets” and you have to “check your camera”! What! Check your camera? I did not even want to take a picture until then. So I took a picture.
The last picture shows the checked camera line.
Well, my Canon PowerShot SD630 died again today. It has died 5 times now. I think that this camera is a total piece of crap now. The error was Lens error, restart camera. The amazon.com NEW warranty actually is really good. They said after it breaks 3 time for the same problem their “lemon rule” goes in effect. Which means they will replace this POS with a new camera. Only 1 or 2 more times and this nightmare will be over.