Vendo V475 Card Reader

[Malky]

Hi , New to this forum and the vending business , I have a few Vendo v475 drinks machines and was wondering if they can take card payment instead of coins and cash , the machines work perfectly but losing sales due to no card reader , is there a conversion kit for the board ? Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction 

thanks 

[AZVendor]

Only if you can find the Vendo MDB harness that was optional on those boards.  They were rare as this machine came out at the beginning of MDB.  You would then need to convert the coin mechs and validators to MDB as well so you would be putting a lot of money into each machine.  Alternatively you could use Payrange if you have a fixed population at those locations so they get used to using Payrange.

[Malky]

Thanks AZ Vendor does this look like the harness would you know?

[AZVendor]

No, that's for a hand held computer which was used back in the old days.  You need an MDB harness that connects to J6.  That PN is 1006908 if you can find it.

[Malky]

Thanks for the info much appreciated 👍

[Vendo Mike]

Looks like you might already be using MDB. The plug for the "Dumb Mech" ( J9 ) is empty in that pic.