Driving Range Installation Instructions
1. Unpacking
You will receive your driving range installation in one box. All the equipment in the box is pre-configured, and the software is customized for you. If you have informed us about desired products, prices, opening and closing times, alarms, etc., this will also already be configured when you receive the equipment. In other words, in most cases it only needs to be physically connected before you can start making payments.
Contents of the box:
1. Electronics kit with modem, relay, power supplies and wiring harness
2. Door adapted to the brand and model of ball machine, fitted with payment terminal, GSM antenna and emergency button
3. Ball sensor with 3m network and power cable
4. Cabling for connecting existing ball counter (option for machines that support this) (not pictured)
Step 1 - power and internet
Before installation, ensure that there is a possibility to connect power with ground in the room behind the door. You may need to lead the supplied power cable through the cable channel at the bottom of the room to the room. The power plug is connected to the female connector on the electronics kit.
There must be wired internet to the room with the electronics. The internet cable is plugged into the modem on top, in the socket marked "Internet" / "WAN".
The electronics holder is placed in the compartment behind the door.
Step 2 - installing the door
The old door is removed and the new door is installed in its place - reuse the same brackets and screws.
- The yellow LAN cable from the electronics kit is clicked into the LAN connector on the terminal.
- The blue LAN cable from the electronics kit is clicked into the COM1 connector in the terminal.
- The square (Mini-Fit) plug from the electronics kit is inserted into the DC IN socket in the terminal (Left side, fits only one way)
- The 2 orange/black wires are screwed into the button on the front with a Phillips screwdriver.
- Screw the two antenna cables onto the modem with your fingers, making sure that the AUX and MAIN cables are installed correctly.
- Move the lock from the old door to the new door (not pictured)
- REMEMBER to reattach the ground connection to the door - the yellow/green cable in the lower left corner of the door when viewed from the inside.
Step 3 - wiring to the machine's channels
The machine has one or more payment channels that you must connect to. For example, if you want 3 different sized buckets of balls, you must connect to at least 3 channels on the machine + a possible spare channel for the emergency button. How these are connected varies by make, model and year, below are descriptions of the most common connections. If we know exactly how your machine is configured, we will typically have prepared the connectors for your particular machine.
Sellschopp / Range Master / Range Partner
These masks are controlled by a modern Siemens PLC. In the software menu for this you can determine the number of balls to be given on each channel. The number set must correspond exactly to the number of balls set per product in the Compu Golf Pay system. Channel 1 must always be the lowest number, with increasing number of balls per channel.
From the relay on the Compu Golf electronics holder on the channels marked 1-3, there are 3x2 cables marked "Channel 1", "Channel 2" and "Channel 3". These are mounted as follows:
Channel 1: Mounted in connectors 4+5
Channel 2: Mounted in connectors 6+7
Channel 3: Mounted in connectors 8+9
230V power is taken using the supplied Y-connector from the input to the PLC system at the top left.
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Oxland
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Range King
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Range Servant
These use green Phoenix connectors to connect to a circuit board in the machine, and we deliver our electronics with these connectors installed. Simply uninstall the existing connectors by pulling them out, and connect the connectors as shown in the picture.
You must then code the channels so that they exactly correspond to the products you have created on the payment system. For example, channel 1 = 15 balls, Channel 2 = 30 balls and Channel 3 = 45 balls and channel 4 = 60 balls. Channel 5 is connected as an 'emergency channel' when you activate the white button on the front, and here you can determine how many balls this channel should give, for example. 30 balls.
The picture shows the latest circuit board called BA16 from Range servant. On this you turn through the menu on the grey rotary knob above the display, and find the channels named "Pay1", "Pay2" etc.. Click the rotary knob to select the channel, turn to the desired number of balls, and click the knob again to move forward in the menu.
On older Range Servant machines there is a board without a display. On this there are 3 channels each with their own 100/10/1 rotary knob (turned with a small flat screwdriver)
The emergency channel is activated in the rare situation that the payment system is not working, but there is still power to the system. When you set the button on the front of the electronics kit to ON, the emergency channels work. In normal operation, this should always be turned OFF:
Manuals for Range Servant and how to code the channels can be found at https://www.rangeservant.com/manuals/
Step 4 - Intelligent Ball Level
The Intelligent Ball Level sensor is mounted at the top of the ball chamber. Use the included aluminum plate to optimize the placement:
- The sensor is placed so that balls filled into the room do not hit the sensor.
- The sensor is placed higher than the maximum level for balls when the machine is full.
- The sensor is placed so that it measures as far down as possible towards the bottom.
Adjust the sensor so that you measure the longest possible distance in an empty ball machine - this way you get the largest possible range of measurement between empty and full, and the measurements will be most accurate.
There are 2 wires from the ball sensor - a black wire for power, this is connected to the round connector on the right side of the electronics kit, and the white wire with the RJ45 (LAN) connector is mounted in the modem on the electronics kit in the connector marked "White" (or in a free connector, just not the one marked "WAN" or "INTERNET"
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