Milan / Paylink System Manual
Issue 1.5 29 January 2020
CONFIDENTIAL
Not to be disclosed without prior written permission from Aardvark Embedded Solutions Ltd
Page 26 of 71
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If the
AcceptorCoin.Path
field for a currently recycled bill is changed to different non zero
value, Paylink will attempt to set the unit to recycle the bills to a different recycle unit. This may
cause different value bills already in that recycler to be dumped to the cashbox. If bills are
currently stored on the previous recycler they
may
remain available to be paid out (depending
upon the device capabilities.)
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If more bills have a non zero
AcceptorCoin.Path
value (i.e. are set to recycle) than the unit
has available recyclers then Paylink does not update the unit and (silently) waits for the
applications reduce the number of bills that are recycled. There will be a comment to this effect
output to the Paylink log.
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The application should not set two or more separate bills to contain the same value in the
AcceptorCoin.Path
field, f this is done, then this situation is undefined
Note that as the specification is “where to send the bill" there is no simple method to have two
dispensers regarded as having the same value bill - on some recyclers this
might
be achieved by
changing the
AcceptorCoin.Path
to a different dispenser, which
can
leave the previously set
dispenser receiving the bills.
The options for automatic re-routing using DefaultPath and PathSwitchLevel are only available with
coin acceptors
. For note recyclers, these fields are not used
.
Dispenser Emptying
The high value represented by the bills in recyclers means that the dispensing of bills requires the
interaction of the recipient. The high value of the bills stored in the recycler also means that users are
liable to want to empty them at the end of the day.
These two factors mean that bill recycler manufacturers implement a “dump to cash box” facility so
that the bills can easily retrieved.
Full Dump
A full dump is where the recycler takes every bill from a dispenser into the cash box until the
dispenser registers as empty.
Triggering this is implemented on Paylink by the user setting a
DispenserBlock.Status
value of
DISPENSER_CASHBOX_DUMP
.
On recyclers that maintain guaranteed accurate counts of bill, the application can monitor the dump
process by observing the
DispenserBlock.CoinCount
going to zero.
On both these and other recyclers, the application can check for the
DISPENSER_CASHBOX_DUMP
value being replaced by another status. Where the dump process completes normally, the status will
take value of
DISPENSER_DUMP_FINISHED.
Partial Dump
As well as the above facility to cycle every bill into the cashbox, many recyclers provide the ability to
perform a partial cashbox dump processes, which can be used to leave a “float” of bills in the
recycler.
Triggering this is implemented on Paylink by the user setting the count of bills that are to be dumped
in the new
DispenserBlock.NotesToDump
field and a value of
DISPENSER_PARTIAL_DUMP
in the
DispenserBlock.Status
field.
