Maintenance Tips For Refrigerated Beverage Vending Machines
Here are a few tips for effective operations and maintenance of your refrigerated beverage vending machines:
#1: Make sure that you purchase a vending machine from a reputable supplier. A good vending machine provider will provide vending machine servicing, refilling, repair and maintenance services for its customers. Planet Antares Inc offers all these after sale services to support the vending operator’s business.
#2: Ask your vending machine supplier about the power mode of the selected machine. If it is has an active low power mode, the vending machine will be put into a state of low-energy refrigeration when there is low or no usage of the machine. This can help you in saving electricity costs too as upto 20% energy may be saved.
#3: For vending machines that don’t have a low power mode, you can go for an external controller. The use of such device requires giving instructions to the premises owners and employees regarding the installation and operation of this unit.
#4: Multiple machines may be connected to a single external controller. A repeater must be used to ensure that there is no extra load on the electrical circuit and the machines start smoothly.
#5: Another way to save energy is de-lamping of advertising lights in the vending machines. Even though this will meet resistance from many business owners, you can inform them about the energy saved by doing so (upto 30%).
#6: For products requiring constant refrigeration, you should avoid using low power mode and other energy saving techniques. These may lead to rotting or spoilage of such products.
Remember that you can reduce your operating costs by cutting down on maintenance costs by using the above stated techniques. Take all these factors into consideration to ensure efficiency in vending machine operations and avoid breakdown or malfunctioning.