Slugbuster II - Paraplate wiring

[Earl Weiss]

I could only find a diagram for the old brown timers and the newer Blue ones are different.

Anyone have a diagram for wiring a slugbuster II to a paraplate? Typically one lead goes to a coin switch Wich one?

 

[Randy]

Blue wire connects to coin switch on the Timer
Yellow wire connects to +24 VAC hot
Black wire connects to -24 VAC common
Purple wire connects to 24 VAC optional counter (it’s not normally used)

 

[Earl Weiss]

Blue wire connects to coin switch on the Timer
Yellow wire connects to +24 VAC hot
Black wire connects to -24 VAC common
Purple wire connects to 24 VAC optional counter (it’s not normally used)

Blue wire - Either coin switch terminal?

On the brown ones they specified # 5. On the blue ones no such numbers.

 

[MEP001]

The manual says to connect the blue wire to coin + and the purple to coin -, but I'm pretty sure it will work with just the blue on coin +.

 

[Earl Weiss]

Info I just rec'd:

Earl;
here is the info per Doug Parker
Power timer with 24 volt ac transformer hooked to line & Neutral. Then connect yellow to line
Black to neutral and blue to + coin switch. Put a jumper from - coin switch to neutral. Purple wire is not used on this timer. Tape off end. Can use piece of purple wire to make jumper.

Hope this helps.

Linda Parker Parker Engineering & Mfg info@slugbuster.com

Now just trying to figure out if it matters (guessing It shouldn't) which neutral you jump the coin switch - to.

 

[Randy]

The older Paraplate T24200 timer had an internal jumper from the neutral to the coin switch neutral, that’s why you can just connect the Blue wire to terminal #5. The Paraplate T24400 doesn’t have this internal jumper, so you need to install it. The blue wire from the Slugbuster puts out 8 volt DC. The only time you would use the Purple wire is when you using a coin counter or something of that nature. The Purple wire puts out a 24 volt AC pulse.

Add the jumper to Terminal #2 to the negative "-" on the coin switch terminal

 

[MEP001]

Info I just rec'd:

Earl;
here is the info per Doug Parker
Power timer with 24 volt ac transformer hooked to line & Neutral. Then connect yellow to line
Black to neutral and blue to + coin switch. Put a jumper from - coin switch to neutral. Purple wire is not used on this timer. Tape off end. Can use piece of purple wire to make jumper.

Hope this helps.

Linda Parker Parker Engineering & Mfg info@slugbuster.com

Now just trying to figure out if it matters (guessing It shouldn't) which neutral you jump the coin switch - to.

That's not what the manual for the timer say:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_jyzgi2YjJrYy1YS1hjQm04UjA/view?usp=sharing

 

[Kimberly Berg]

Over the weekend, I had a problem with one of my vacuums. The coin acceptor (Slugbuster II) was jammed with a quarter. When I opened it up, I found melted wires going to the Paraplate T24400 timer. The jumper wire (green wire) going from Neutral #2 on the timer to the Coin Switch - had melted and fried my Neutral #3 wire (white wire). I hooked this up last year, and it's been working fine till now. This posting was helpful as it confirmed that I wired it correctly. Can anyone tell me why the wires suddenly melted? Do I have a bad timer? Do I have a vacuum motor going bad, drawing extra current?

 

[MEP001]

A motor gone bad wouldn't have any effect on the coin acceptor wires. More than likely the white neutral wire is what got hot and also melted the green jumper wire.