arkhusker Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 So, Coke brought me a DN5000 last week and I'm a little leery of putting on location. It still has to have shims for many products, has only one gate and an actuator for each selection. I remember these things all being issues with the 5591 bottle drops. Not to mention, the retrieval area is rather small, I bump and scrape my hand every time I get a product out of it. And man is this machine wide> How reliable are these? I don't want to put it on site and then have to pull it. Can't believe this is what they sent when I asked for a larger glass front. Pepsi will send me 5800-3 or 4's but I thought I'd give Coke a shot on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZVendor Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 That's the Coke Bev 2 machine and it was problematic, especially in how people could trick the machine into thinking that no product was delivered so the machine would deliver another. This type of theft resulted in eventual breakage of the delivery door or the door's sensor which then disabled the machine. It is very wide and, like all of the later Bevs, it won't fit into a service body on a truck so it has to be moved on a wide bed truck body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feral Vending Mechanic Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 It's a very reliable machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkhusker Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 So which is it..reliable or problematic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZVendor Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 It's reliable until you have a problem that requires parts and then you, Mike, have to wait for Coke to ship the parts to you. For that reason I would prefer a 5591 or a Bev 4 machine over a Bev 2 any day. If it's going to be in a location that will take care of it, such as a nice office, then you probably won't encounter the theft problem that I've seen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorris1953 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 So which is it..reliable or problematic? Anything that is not a Bev 4 isn't reliable. Coke wouldn't be buying 5800 Bev 4's if it were reliable. Like AZ i would prefer a 5591 over the DN 5000. Less moving parts = less problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkhusker Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 That's what I suspected in the first place so I'm ordering a 5800 from pepsi today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 That's what I suspected in the first place so I'm ordering a 5800 from pepsi today. I have never operated a DN5000 personally as they are only available for coke here & coke don't offer 3rd party vending in my part of the world. I have seen a lot of them around though & agree about the problems they have with the delivery process where people are able to block the delivery door to allow products to buildup on the elevator & sometimes get 2-3 drinks for the price of 1 drink. I think they designed a delivery flap sensor to stop the double/tripple vending from happening but you still can't stop people from holding the door closed & leaving a bottle/can on the delivery elevator. Apart from this they are a reliable machine in my opinion.. they are basically a 5591 with a elevator & an extended cabinet. Mike (mission) had a few DN5000 machines on his route (maybe 3rd party coke) which he seemed to like so you could PM him to get a first hand opinion from him if you liked. I would go with a DN5800-4 over a DN5000 if I had a choice but in saying that I would also go with Coke over Pepsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Is the DN 5000 the version with the elevator and the belt? What comes to mind is an elevator that goes up to the appropriate level, the soda is forced onto the "belt", and the belt then turns to deliver the product into the port. I don't recall too many problems with them but I also know that they weren't very popular either... but Coke stopped doing 3rd party vending around here quite a while ago. In fact, I think they may have taken most of their 3rd party vending back and destroyed them. It's pretty stupid that Pepsi/Coke often demand 3rd party equipment back when your numbers aren't good enough... then they turn around and scrap many of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feral Vending Mechanic Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 The DN5000 is the Coke elevator machine. It's very reliable. It's not a 5800, and doesn't require the same upgrades. The biggest problems they have are: 1 ) Stupid people who have watched videos on YouTube showing them how to get free Coke cause jams. ( What the video shows DOESNT WORK unless you've turned Grab Mode off for some reason, all the machines ship with it turned on. ) 2 ) Over long periods of heavy use, you get some wear on the machine screws that mount the elevator assembly to the motor. 3 ) Drivers drop soda and don't clean it up, gumming up the conveyor belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 So, Coke brought me a DN5000 last week and I'm a little leery of putting on location. It still has to have shims for many products, has only one gate and an actuator for each selection. I remember these things all being issues with the 5591 bottle drops. Not to mention, the retrieval area is rather small, I bump and scrape my hand every time I get a product out of it. And man is this machine wide> How reliable are these? If you are still considering using the DN5000... here is an older topic on some of the problems you can have http://vendiscuss.net/index.php?/topic/20700-dn5000-problems/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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