PerformaVending Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Hello! I was informed yesterday by one of my locations that my Crane model 158 isn't taking dollar bills. Or rather, it's taking the money, and not crediting the customer. I ran a few bills and cleaned the mechanism, but it seems to be running fine- it's just not signaling the board for some reason. I did power cycle the machine, but that didn't seem to affect it. The coin mech is a coinco, the DBA is a Mars, not sure of the model offhand, though I'll be there again later today to restock. The coin mech is still working fine so the unit is still operational, but I'm rather stumped by this one. I'm hoping I've just missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance for any assistance on this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuikVend Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 I had something similar happen on my National 146. Machine was accepting dollars,but no credit was being given. Ended up being a wire pulled from the harness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidStateVending Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 I had this happen to me too.... there was a wire in the six (or eight) pin that connects the bill acceptor to to board. I almost missed it until I took that little plastic pin connector apart. Sure enough just one of those 6 tiny wires slipped out of the pin slot. After that it happened again because my wire harness kept yanking at it. I tied and taped all the wires all to the inside of the machine so it would not move again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuikVend Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Yea, my plastic connection got pinched and one of the pins wouldn't stay. Happened to have an extra harness, so I rerouted it and head been working ever since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PerformaVending Posted September 22, 2017 Author Share Posted September 22, 2017 Bingo, that was it. Thank you very much both of you for the assistance, my gear is working great again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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