Secon 7 - Technical Informaon
Technical Manual
machine controller of the amount of credit which has been deposited into the vending
machine.
7.13 Coin Mechanism / Bill Validator
1. These validate the coins and bills and communicate with the vending machine
controller through a serial communicaon interface.
2. Once sucient credit has been accumulated a vend will be permied. Where possible
the change giver will return the appropriate amount of change to the consumer.
Note: The COTI machine is MDB or Execuve Protocol compable and the LINEA machine is
MDB compable only.
7.14 Card/Key System
1. The card system ed to the machine communicates with the vending machine
controller using the same principle as the change giver.
2. The card system informs the vending machine controller of the amount of credit on
the consumer's card. If there is sucient credit for the selected drink the vending
machine controller permits a vend and informs the card system of the amount of
credit to be taken from the card. The new balance will then be re-wrien onto the
consumer's card.
Note: For full informaon and programming instrucons for all of these systems please
refer to the user manual supplied with the validaon system.