Milnor Washers
This article covers reader installation on Milnor washers.
These readers uses Pulse control (Coin Drop Emulation) to start the machine.
Parts
- Card Reader (with Generic Relay reader board - Part #: ASSY-02-02-11)
- Reader wiring harness (Part #: 02-06-63)
- External Power Supply
Installation
- Before proceeding, you should assign numbers to each of the machines in the laundry room/building.
It is highly recommended that you place number labels on each washer and dryer machine. - Set the reader's DIP switches, on the back of the reader, to number the card reader.
See our Reader DIP Switch settings article for instructions on how to set the reader's dip switches - Reader Signal/Start wire connectionSplice the reader's GREEN and WHITE wires, from the provided reader cable harness across Coin1's, or Coin2's, input on the machine.
Below is a picture of the coin drop, which is connected to the machine's Coin1's input.
If there is an existing coin-drop, the colors of the wires that the reader start wires connect to, are the Coin Drop's Blue and Green wires.
Once the coin drop has been removed;
the reader's GREEN wire connects to where the coin drop's GREEN wire was removed;
and the reader's WHITE wire connects to where the coin drop's BLUE wire was removed: - Power connection
Use the provided external power supply to provide power to the card reader
You can connect the 120Vac side of the power supply, either to an available wall outlet, or splice the power supply directly to the machine, using an appropriate high-voltage connection inside the machine.
When connecting to the machine directly, you'll be cutting off the AC prong from the external power supply, and splicing these wires directly to the machine (we recommend consulting the manufacturer, or an electrician, to confirm this type of connection). - Mount the reader to the machine, and Activate it by placing this store location's Activation Card on the reader:
Pricing
Set the pricing of the reader from the LaundroPortal.
See our article discusses Configuring Vend Prices for general instructions on configuring vend prices.
Pulse readers only sends ONE pulse to start the machine.
Therefore, you will need to set the value of a single pulse to meet the vend price set on the machine itself.
Usually this means either setting the price of the machine to $0.25 so that it starts from 1 pulse (by default the coin value is usually set to $0.25).
OR changing the value of the Coin Input, on the machine itself, to match the full vend price of the machine.
If every tap of a laundry card only deducts $0.25 off the vend price being displayed on the machine, then you need to adjust the coin/pulse value, on the machine itself, so that one pulse deducts the full vend price from the machine, allowing it to start from 1 tap of the laundry card.
Troubleshooting
| Issue | Explanation and resolution |
Reader taking money but machine vend only goes down by 25cents | Set the vend price of the machine to 25cents so it starts from 1 Pulse from the card reader; or set the Coin value setting of the machine to match the machine's vend price, so a single pulse covers the full vend price |
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