Bill acceptors and coin acceptors are used to take cash payments. They work by detecting certain denominations of bills or coins and provide an output signal that can be read by a computer. This allows your software to take cash payments. We’ve had a few inquiries from owners of the popular NV9 bill acceptor and how it can be interfaces using our counter systems.
This is a quick note for those using the NV9 bill acceptor. As we mentioned in an earlier post, our PRT232 or IOCTL counters can give your PC the ability to record the cash value of bills inserted into a bill validator. Recall that the IOCTL232 is the same as the PRT232 but without an enclosure and at a lower cost. With the NV9 bill validator specifically, pins 1 & 16 on the main interface connector are used for the connection to the PRT232 “sensor” connector. Pin 16 is ground and pin 1 is the open-collector pulse output.
The pulses are delivered at a rate of about 10 per second, which is well within the counting speed we support. The dollar values are sent as 1 pulse per dollar, e.g., a $1 bill produces one pulse, a $50 produces 50 pulses and so on.
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