This note covers reader installation on Milnor washers. The reader uses pulse control to start the machine
Parts
Reader (with Generic Relay board - ASSY-02-02-11)
Cable harness
Power supply
Installation
Before proceeding, you should assign numbers to each of the machines in the laundry room/building.
It is highly recommended that you place number labels on each washer and dryer machine.
Set the DIP switch, on the back of the reader, to number the reader.
See our Reader DIP Switch settings article for instructions on how to set the reader's dip switches
Signal connection
Splice the GREEN and WHITE wires from the provided reader cable harness across coin1 or coin2 inputs. Circled below are the connection points on Coin1. If there is an existing coin-drop, the colors of the wires are Blue and Green.
Power connection
Use the provided external power supply to provide power to the card reader
You can connect the AC side of the 12V power supply, to 110Vac inside the machine.
Mount the reader to the machine, and Activate it with this store location's Activation Card:
Pricing
Set the pricing of the reader from the LaundroPortal.
See our article discusses Configuring Vend Prices for general instructions on configuring vend prices.
Pulse readers only sends ONE pulse to start the machine.
Therefore, you will need to set the value of a single pulse to meet the vend price set on the machine itself.
Usually this means either setting the price of the machine to $0.25 so that it starts from 1 pulse (by default the coin value is usually set to $0.25).
OR changing the value of the Coin Input, on the machine itself, to match the full vend price of the machine.
If every tap of a laundry card only deducts $0.25 off the vend price being displayed on the machine, then you need to adjust the coin/pulse value, on the machine itself, so that one pulse deducts the full vend price from the machine, allowing it to start from 1 tap of the laundry card.
Troubleshooting
Issue | Explanation and resolution |
Reader taking money but machine vend only goes down by 25cents | Set the value of the cycle on machine to 25cents. Or set the value of a single pulse to cover the vend price |
For more general reader troubleshooting, see Reader Support Process