convert acw to mars 2000 W/ CCard

[Whale of a Wash]

Has anyone converted the acw to the new mars that takes credit cards and validates them thru the cellphone. I have a location with no phone line and it looks like less than a third of the hamilton card retrofit cost. Just thought i could get a better validator and credit card at the same time. Maybe it's too good to be true.
john

 

[Randy]

I?ve looked at this a couple of times. There are a couple of problems. You have to cut a 4? by 5 ?? hole in the front of the ACW to accommodate the credit card unit, it?s mounted to the front of the Mars validator. This gives you a hole in the front of the ACW big enough to put your hand into should someone smash in the validator. We also found that we couldn?t make it interface with the Hamilton controller. There didn?t seem to be to enough interest in it to justify the cost of doing the R/D so we shelved the project.