Step 4: Connect the machine side cable to the AA3 connector on the machine control:
Step 5: Connect the reader's connector, mount the reader, and activate it using this location's
Activation Card:
Step 6: Enter Enhanced Debit mode (for Card ONLY installs), or Coin & Card mode (for Hybrid Coin+Card installs) on the machine (MFRxxPD only)
For Card Only Installs:
On most Maytag machines, the machine will automatically detect the serial reader and enter enhanced debit mode when powered up.
However in some cases (MFRxxPD known to be the only one so far), you need to manually switch the machine to Enhanced Debit using the menu
For Hybrid Coin+Card Installs:
Card readers setup for Hybrid installs are NOT using serial communication, so the machine should NOT enter "Enh. Debit" mode automatically.
Instead of switching the machine to "Enh. Debit" mode, you'll instead set the machine's Coin/Debit setting to "Coin & Card"
this will allow both the coin drop, and card reader, to send pulses to the machine to trigger it to start.
However, by default, the machine's Coin Drop is usually connected to the Coin1 input on the machine.
Coin1's input is controlled by the "Value of Coin 1" setting, in the machine's programming menu, but the "Value of Coin 1" setting controls how much comes off the vend price, when the machine gets a signal from Coin1 input, as well as the signal it gets from the serial port that the card reader is connected to.
So when our card reader is used in a Hybrid install configuration, the "Value of Coin 1" settings needs to be changed to equal the full vend price of the machine, in order to get the card reader to trigger the machine to start from 1 tap of a laundry card.
So in order to get both the card reader, and Coin Drop, working correctly in a Hybrid configuration, you need to connect the Coin Drop to Coin2's Input, so that you can set the "Value of Coin 2" setting to equal $0.25 so the Coin Drop continues to work as intended;
then you will set the "Value of Coin 1" setting to equal the full vend price of the machine, so that 1 tap of a laundry card satisfies the full vend price, and triggers the machine to start.
The reader does not control price; pricing comes from the machine. Multi-vend pricing is supported.