Compact Dispensing Hopper

[Bubbles Galore]

I am looking for a hopper that can dispense a token for our vacuums from the 24vac signal that our ACW 4 kicks out to our auto. I am going to have the unit in its own box and will need to have it be as compact as possible. Any suggestions?

 

[soapy]

At the ICA show I was looking for exactly what you are. I already purchased the Hamilton token vendor for 2 of my GOldline units. I had to also upgrade the controller on each unit so it was a fairly expensive upgrade. ($2600 each) I looked at a unit made by american changer. It is a bit smaller but is said to work with a ACW. AMerican changer would not explain to me at the show how I would need to hook it up. They said it could be done but declined to give me any idea how to do it. By chance I was walking by Carolina Prides booth and they had a very small token vendor unit that is designed to go on the wall next to a SS bay box and vend a token with each cycle for a vac. It cost $1400. They offer a upgrade unit for any ACW for another $100. They explained how to wire it up and were very helpful. It is also about 1/2 the size of the Hamilton or American Changer units.

 

[bigleo48]

PLC (like a seimans Logo) and this hopperhttp://na.suzohapp.com/hoppers/cubehopper.htm Make sure the die is the right size for your token.

Both should run you about $250, plus box, wiring and time.

 

[MEP001]

PLC (like a seimans Logo) and this hopperhttp://na.suzohapp.com/hoppers/cubehopper.htm Make sure the die is the right size for your token.

Both should run you about $250, plus box, wiring and time.

I was looking to do exactly that too. I'm not sure about the ACW4, but there's plenty of room on top of the hopper in the Goldline to add that cube hopper. The Siemens programmable relay part would be simple too since they can operate off of and accept the 24V DC wash pulses for payout. I want to eliminate a wash and raise the top one by $1; I could make it give two tokens for the top wash and one for the lower ones.

 

[Greg Pack]

I was looking to do exactly that too. I'm not sure about the ACW4, but there's plenty of room on top of the hopper in the Goldline to add that cube hopper. The Siemens programmable relay part would be simple too since they can operate off of and accept the 24V DC wash pulses for payout. I want to eliminate a wash and raise the top one by $1; I could make it give two tokens for the top wash and one for the lower ones.

I think there is a niche market for them MEP, why don't you package a kit?

I have two coleman vac token dispensers, They are almost 2K each. But they have a full size hopper and I only have to fill them on a monthly basis. However, if the assembly could be sized to fit into the cashier, a much smaller hopper would suffice beacuse that is opened frequently.

Even after being in a year I still find tokens in there on a regular basis. In addition I have a few self serve customers that have caught on to looking for them and using them to get free washes. I would love to design some sort of "trap door" design that would open about three minutes after the token was dispensed to allow uncollected tokens to fall back into a container.

One of the problems you run into hooking the unit to the output is when a customer pays while another is washing. It does not dispense until the wash is triggered.

All, in all though the customers really like them. The ones that know about them, anyway.....