Out of curiosity..

[Vince]

Do each of these bays have a timer on it that counts the total minutes of use so you can really figure out the traffic count?

 

[MEP001]

A lot of them do. GinSan equipment usually has the counters in the room. Dixmor timers have counters that you can read in the bay with a magnet or a remote. None of them will let you read CC usage.

 

[Vince]

Are they able to give you data by date, week or month or is it just cumulative?

 

[Randy]

Are they able to give you data by date, week or month or is it just cumulative?

No, only coin counts from the coin pulses from the coin acceptor to timer.

 

[Carwashking]

With a magnet?

 

[Randy]

With a magnet?

That's right wave a magnet across the front of the timer and numbers will come up on the display.

 

[Vince]

Not sure I'm following you, Randy. What exactly will that tell you? How many coins were dropped and in what time frame? Our does it tell you how many minutes each bay was used?

 

[Randy]

Not sure I'm following you, Randy. What exactly will that tell you? How many coins were dropped and in what time frame? Our does it tell you how many minutes each bay was used?

It will tell you how many coins have been dropped in, that's all. It won't tell when or what time they were dropped in. What are you trying to do?

 

[Vince]

It will tell you how many coins have been dropped in, that's all. It won't tell when or what time they were dropped in. What are you trying to do?

I'm looking at a SS car wash to buy with some pretty strong numbers. I was "hoping" that maybe I could verify the "real" income and/or traffic by getting a read from all the coin slots and the actual usage. Seems like that would be an easy thing for these coin/CC readers to do technology wise.

 

[Vince]

It will tell you how many coins have been dropped in, that's all. It won't tell when or what time they were dropped in. What are you trying to do?

The data that it does provide by using a magnet, is it delineated by a certain time frame or some specific metric or does it just reset every time you collect the money?

 

[MEP001]

The data that it does provide by using a magnet, is it delineated by a certain time frame or some specific metric or does it just reset every time you collect the money?

It's just a running count. You have to record the numbers yourself and track them. The 4-character Dixmor timers reset at 10,000 coins so you have to check them often. There are systems that can track and give you analytics, but none that you can check with a magnet or remote will do that.