My first DBA on a machine - help! (MEI model AE 2411)

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My first DBA on a machine - help! (MEI model AE 2411)

Makes noise when I turn the machine on. Red LED on back of unit (inside coin door) blinking steadily. Won't take any bills.

I found a manual of sorts online, but no diagnostic chart for the LED. Anyone have any quick tips for me?

(Also, does this unit have lit arrows on the front, which point to the bill slot? Looks like it should, but they're not lighting.)
 
http://www.nsmmusicinc.com/service/ServiceManuals/MarsBillAcceptors/ae2400_install_guide.pdf

This should relate to that unit.... but all it says about the LED if blinking more than twice is to check the label on the stacker for a list of codes. (I know, not very helpful)
Any kind of "list label" on your unit?

Nope, but a good place to start. So, through a lot of searching, I had to find it as part of another manual - a machine with an MEI bill validator in it.

5 blinks (mine) = bill box not installed.

Looks like I need a bill box. Anyone have one?
 
5 blinks (mine) = bill box not installed.

That's where the error label would have been. :p

You'll be looking for a bill stacker box then.
Might be a switch of sorts you could finagle and bypass for the time being just to test with. (switch that engages when the box is installed)
 
Might be a switch of sorts you could finagle and bypass for the time being just to test with. (switch that engages when the box is installed)

I'll have to keep looking for said switch. I thought I found it, but didn't see any change when I held it in and powered up.

BTW, also saw the arrows on the front light up briefly last time...so I guess they do.
 
Might check any local "vending" machine services in the area and see if they have anything laying around as far as the stacker box goes. Worth a shot anyways.
I'm assuming you just need the cash box, not the "stacker" itself.

I wonder if a CoinCo (MagPro, etc) box would fit it ?
 
Folow-up: got a bill box, installed it. Everything works; inserting bills puts credits in the machine.

But here's the odd part: the door the bill box is installed on cannot close with the bill box on it. And this is a factory install (Ms. Pac / Galaga Class of `81 cabaret coin-op).

Do they make smaller bill boxes? I've got a standard-sized one...
 
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