Alberici HopperOne S11 User manual

HopperOne S11
ccTalk
Operator’s Manual
Operator’s manual
Rev. 1.02
HopperOne S11 ccTalk

NOTICE
This manual has been drafted with the utmost care. Nevertheless, it is not possible to guarantee at all times the
absolute correspondence of the descriptions contained therein with the actual characteristics of the product.
Alberici S.p.A. declines any and all responsibility towards the User with reference to damages, losses, or claims of
third parties, resulting from the use of the product or caused by incorrect interpretations of this manual.
Alberici S.p.A. reserves the right to modify, without prior notice and in any way, any part of this manual and the
technical specifications of this product, as part of the continuous pursuit of improvement of its products.

CONTENTS
1. General description 5
2. Main Features 5
3. Electrical Features 8
4. ccTalk Italy communication protocol 9
STORICO REVISIONI
Revisione n°
Data
Modifica
Note
Creazione 1.00
21.09.05
Creazione HopperOne
Rev. 1.01
16.04.16
Modifica testata e nome S11
Rev. 1.02
30.01.17
Sensori livello ottici

1. Introduction
Congratulations for having purchased of our HopperOne S11! This HopperOne S11 has been designed and realized in the
Alberici’s research laboratories and fulfils all the requirements of the coin-op market. This belt-drive single-denomination
dispensing device makes use of the most modern electronic and mechanical technologies. It is secure, enduring, and reliable.
1.1 Range of use
The technology implemented makes the HopperOne S11 able to manage different operations, i.e. to count up the coins paid
out, and to stop automatically when empty. To this purpose it makes use of a significant quantity of control routines for the
management of the internal and external events.
It builds-ups easily into Gaming machines, Money Changers, Kiosks and Vending Dispensers.
These features make it easily compatible with all the cards normally available on the market.
1.2 Safety
The HopperOne S11 can be connected to and disconnected from its slide connector only when power supply is off. The
installation must be carried out as specified in paragraph 2.3. Guarantee shall not apply if such instructions are not
complied with.
This device includes mechanical parts
moving fast during operation: DO NOT
put your fingers inside it while the
device is connected to power supply.
.
2. Main Features
The HopperOne S11 is available in 2 different versions, according to the respective positions of the electrical connector and
the coins outlet. When they are located at opposite sides, the version is named “STANDARD”; when they are located at the
same side, the version is named “REVERSE”.
The standard features of the HopperOne S11 make it interchangeable with similar devices already existing in the market.
It can handle any coins whose diameter ranges between 16 mm and 32 mm (choose the most convenient belt for your
purpose: 16-24mm, or else 22-32mm). Coin thickness can range between 2,0 mm and 3,4 mm.
DANGER!
MECHANICAL PARTS
IN MOTION

2.1 Overall dimensions
2.2 Position of the Chinch connector
Reverse version
(connector on the same
side of the output of the
coins)
Standard version
(connector on the
opposite side of
the output of the
coins)

2.3 Installation
. fasten the slide support,
. slide the hopper in
. for electrical connections , please see chapter 3
92mm 92mm ø 5.5 mm
68.5mm 118mm
245mm
Please use conical head bolts
slide hopper in
Base fixing plate of the hopper
(included with the hopper)
Floor plate of the cabinet
ALWAYS CONNECT
THIS METAL PLATE TO
THE MACHINE GROUND
TERMINAL

3. Electrical Features
All the signals handled by the hopper are by negative logic: each signal is considered active when its voltage is
LOW (GND).
3.1 CINCH connector pin-out
The connector can be located on the opposite side (Standard version) of the coins outlet, or on the same side
(Reverse version).
PLEASE NOTE: the pc board of the model with plate level sensors is different from the pc board of the model
with optic level sensors.
When the hopper level controls are made through optic sensors, do connect the electrode plates to the machine
ground terminals.
3.2 Power Supply
This equipment must be supplied with 24Vd.c.. If CINCH socket is used, connect +24V to pin9 /(GND = pin 1). If the
10-pin connector is used, power pin 7 with +24V (GND = pin 8). Max. Payout speed is 240 pcs. per minute.
DO ALWAYS CONNECT THE PINPOINTED METAL PLATE OF
THE HOPPER TO THE MACHINE GROUND TERMINAL, TO
PREVENT ANY POTENTIAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY HEAVY
ELECTRO-STATIC CHARGE INTRODUCED WITH THE COINS.
SETTING SERIAL ADDRESS BY DIP-SWITCHES
Please be aware: the hopper reads the address
only at power up or after reset.
Current draw:
Stand-by
No load
Normal
operation
Stuck motor
(*)
Pcb
(+24Vdc)
20mA/0,24W
20mA/0,24W
40mA/0,48W
40mA/0,48W
Motor
(+24Vdc)
0mA/0m W
70mA/1,4W
1,2 A/28.8W
1,5mA*/30W
Total
20mA/0,24 W
90mA/1,64W
1,24A/29,28W
1,54A/30,48W
*The motor overload current draw shall always be limited by the electronic circuit. The current draw, corresponding to the
hold-up of the motor, will therefore be reached only for a few msec.

4. ccTalk Italy communication protocol
cctalk® communication protocol is the Money Controls serial communication protocol for low speed control
networks.
It was designed to allow the interconnection of various cash handling devices (Hoppers, Bill validators, Coin
selectors etc.), mostly in AWP and gaming Industry, but allso in other devices that use those components.
cctalk® is an open standard.
All documentation is available at web site: www.cctalk.org. The communication protocol of the Alberici ccTalk
HopperCD is implemented according to the generic specification 4.2.
1 Communication specifications
Serial communication was derivated from RS232 standard.
Low data rate NRZ (Non Return to Zero) asyncronous communication:
Baud rate 9600, 1 start bit, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit.
RS232 handshaking signals (RTS, CTS, DTR, DCD, DSR) are not supported.
Message integrity is controlled by means of checksum calculation.
1.1 Baud rate
The baud rate of 9600 was chosen as compromise between cost and speed.
Timing tolerances is same as in RS232 protocol and it should be less than 4%.
1.2 Voltage level
To reduce the costs of connections the “Level shifted “ version of RS232 is used. The idle state on serial
connector is 5V, and active state is 0V.
Mark state (idle) +5V nominal from 3.5V to 5V
Space state (active) 0V nominal from 0.0V to 1.0V
Data I/O line is “open collector” type, so it is possible to use device in systems with different voltage.
1.3 Connection
The connection of Hopper at network is achieved by means of its 10-pin connector . Connector is used for
power supply and for communication as well.
For schematics and and connector appearance see picture at page 4.
1.4 Message structure
Each communication sequence consists of two message packets.
Message packets for simple checksum case is structured as follows:
[ Destination address ]
[ Nr. of data bytes ]
[ Source address ]
[ Header ]
[ Data 1 ]
...
[ Data n ]
[ Checksum ]
There is an exeption of message structure when device answer to instruction Address poll and Address clash.
The answer consists of only one byte representing address delayed for time proportional to address value. For
CRC checksum case format is:
[ Destination address ]
[ Nr. of data bytes ]
[ CRC 16 LSB ]
[ Header ]
[ Data 1 ]
...
[ Data n ]
[ CRC 16 MSB ]

1.4.1 Address
Address range is from address 0 to address 255. Address 0 is special case or so called “broadcast” address
and address 1 is default host address. Recommended address values of different devices are shown in Table 1
below.
Device category
Address
Additional addr.
Note
Coin Acceptor
2
11 - 17
Coin validator, coin selector, coinmech...
Payout
3
4 - 10
Hopper
Bill validator
40
41 - 47
Banknote reader
Card Reader
50
Display
60
Alphanumeric LC display
Keypad
70
Dongle
80
85
Safety equipment
Meter
90
Replacement for el.mec. counters
Power
100
Power supply
Table 1 Standard address for different types of devices
Address for Alberici Hopper is factory set as 3; the user can change the default address by using the MDCES
commands Address change or Address random or by setting Hopper dip-switches. For details see cctalk 42-
2.pdf, Address poll.
1.4.2 Number of data byte
Number of data byte in each transfer could be from 0 to 252.
Value 0 means that there are no data bytes in the message, and total length of message packet will be 5 bytes.
Although theoretically it will be possible to send 255 bytes of data because of some limitations in small micro
controllers the number is limited to 252 (252 bytes of data, source address, header and checksum: total of 255
bytes).
1.4.3 Command headers (Instructions)
Total amount of cctalk command header is 255 with possibility to add sub-headers using headers 100, 101,
102, 103.
Header 0 stands for ACK (acknowledge) replay of device to host.
Header 5 stands for NAK (No acknowledge) replay of device to host.
Header 6 is BUSY replay of device to host.
In all three cases no data bytes are transferred. Use of ACK and NAK headers are explained later on, for each
specific message transfer.
Commands are divided in to several groups according to application specifics:
- Basic general commands
- Additional general commands
- Commands for Coin acceptors
- Commands for Bill validators
- Commands for Payout mechs
- MDCES commands
Details for use of all instruction are explained in chapter 2.
1.4.4 Data
There is no restrictions data formats use. Data could be BCD (Binary Coded Decimal)numbers, Hex numbers
or ASCII strings. Interpretation as well as format is specific to each header use, and will be explained in
separate chapter.
1.4.5 Checksum
Message integrity during transfer is checked by use of simple zero checksum calculation.
Simple checksum is made by 8 bit addition (modulus 256) of all the bytes in the message. If message is
received and the addition of all bytes are non-zero then an error has occurred (See Error handling).
For noisy environment or higher security application it is possible to use more complex, 16 bit CRC CCITT
checksum based on a polynomial of:
x16 + x12 + x5 + 1 and initial value of CRC register 0x0000.
Hopper are using simple checksum, but they could be set to operate with CRC-16 checksum on customer
demand.