Uncle Sam
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As stated in V-Blog #44 we found some design elements that needed to be improved after some real world experience in the field. “Hoodies” are getting more desperate to find money without working, so they are vandalizing vending machines ‘cause that is where the money is. They think the vendor window is the weakest and easiest way to get into the machine, so that is where they attack. I never liked bars of any kind because the vendor looked like it is in “jail” so I resisted doing it. One of my old customers wanted to update his vendor/cage so it worked better, but he insisted on bars over the window. He had put some expanded metal over the window years ago, but it killed his sales because people could not see into the vendor. We put vertical bars over the window and so far he has had no trouble.
When we designed the new VendPro-iG5 to work better than the VendPro-iG4, we realized that customers read left to right, so we changed to horizontal bars which look much better to me. The coin slot and bill slot are thicker and heavier, the window retainers are heavier, and the new VendPro-iG5 will have a lighted keypad which was introduced by AMS at the first of the year. One other change was made with respect to the Arrow credit card reader; a reader we had installed on a VendPro-iG4 was “blown” off the front of the machine with a hammer. We fixed this by designing a steel cover to protect the reader while allowing it to function as it should. The VendPro-iG5 with these enhanced security features allows the operator to buy the accessory equipment they want and still be installed anywhere on a car wash site as a free standing machine, in-the-wall front-loaded, or in-the-wall rear-loaded and should be as secure as we can make a window style vending machine.
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When we designed the new VendPro-iG5 to work better than the VendPro-iG4, we realized that customers read left to right, so we changed to horizontal bars which look much better to me. The coin slot and bill slot are thicker and heavier, the window retainers are heavier, and the new VendPro-iG5 will have a lighted keypad which was introduced by AMS at the first of the year. One other change was made with respect to the Arrow credit card reader; a reader we had installed on a VendPro-iG4 was “blown” off the front of the machine with a hammer. We fixed this by designing a steel cover to protect the reader while allowing it to function as it should. The VendPro-iG5 with these enhanced security features allows the operator to buy the accessory equipment they want and still be installed anywhere on a car wash site as a free standing machine, in-the-wall front-loaded, or in-the-wall rear-loaded and should be as secure as we can make a window style vending machine.
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