3. Options and Errors
NAVIGATION
To navigate from option to option (What they are is next section), remember the
numberings we gave the buttons. They work as follows:
Button [ 1 ] - Exit/Back
Button [ 2 ] - Up
Button [ 3 ] - Down
Button [ 4 ] - Select
OPTIONS
Depending on the age of the machine, you will get a varying amount of default
options available.
On older machines: SALE, VER, EROR, and RTN
On newer machines: CASH, SALE, EROR, and RTN
CASH - Machine Earnings Display
The CASH option will display how much money is in the machine currently. It
generally takes a second or two to load. From here, you can scroll up and down
through 12 or 16 different options, depending on the machine age. These other
options display how much money was spent on each individual item, classified
through its button (or slot, as I like to call it) number.
A neat side note about the slot numbers is that there are more slot numbers than
there are actual slot, so usually the last 4 buttons contain zero money. This could
be so that the same OS could be used on bigger machines, but the newer machines
have even more slot numbers.
SALE - Total Sale Count
The SALE option displays how many drinks have been sold out of the machine. This
tends to be cumulative, but not on all machines. The stock guy is probably supposed
to reset this each time he re-stocks. Also, this has the same sub-options as the
CASH option, where you can scroll up and down and see how many drinks have
been sold from each slot.
VER - System/Machine Version?
This option will cause a large alphanumeric string to scroll across the LCD. The
number looks very much like a serial number, but doesn't vary from machine to
machine. It is most likely the OS or machine version number, but of the older
machines that have the option, I haven't seen one that doesn't have the same
number.
EROR - Error Log
There are 8 different types of errors - COLJ (Column Jams), VEnd (Vend
Mechanism),
door (Door Switch), sels (Select Switch), CHAR (Changer Errors), acce (Acceptor
Errors), StS (Space-to-sales errors), and bVal (Bill Validators). The separate
types and actual errors are useless, as you assumably can't get inside the machine,
BUT(! you can clear the errors. Hold the enter (Number 4) button down for about 2
seconds, and it should clear the error.
RTN - Return
This is simply the return option. Selecting this will exit the debug menu. On newer
machines, pressing the BACK button at the main menu will not exit, and RTN must
be
selected.
A side note: The menu can also be exited by pressing the coin return button.
