Continental-Girbau L-series washers

Continental-Girbau L-series washers

This installation note covers L-series washers, such as L1125. Pulse control is used. Work in progress

Required parts

  1. Reader
  2. Cable harness
  3. 12Vdc power supply
  4. High-Voltage sensor box (for sensing machine state/availability)

Installation Steps

Step 1: Turn Machine Power Off

Step 2: Remove coin-drop if present

Step 3: Number the reader using the DIP switch



Step 4:  START wires connection

Open the machine and locate the brown wires with female spade connectors as shown below. These wires should be coming from X9-7 and X9-11 on the machine and represent the coin switch signal.  Connect these to the White and Green wires (called the START wires) on the provided cable harness (not shown)

Machine Schematic - Coin Switch Inputs



If you're doing a coin+card (hybrid) installation, connect the green/white wires from the reader harness across Coin2 (S4) which is wires 37 and 35


Step 5:  High voltage sensor connection

Locate the two blue wires with female spade connectors with as shown in the step above. These wires tie back to a 230Vac In-Use signal and will enable the reader to know when the machine is and is not available for payment. Connect these wires to the two red wires from the provided High Voltage sensor box.


Step 6: Mount the reader to into the place where the coin-drop would normally mount.


Step 7: Activate the card reader using the Activation Card provided for this store location:


Vend pricing

Set vend pricing on the web Portal. Note that the reader one sends ONE pulse. You'll want to configure the machine to start a cycle off of this one pulse.

Troubleshooting

Below are problems commonly encountered during installation of readers on these dryers. For more general reader troubleshooting, see Reader Support


Issue
Explanation and resolution
Reader takes money, but machine cycle does not start
Confirm you have configured the machine to start off of a single pulse.




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