I dunno what he means by the royal mint semding a signal to your machine ~ how they gonna do that then ? I presume your MPU5 based machine doesn't even hook up to the net !!!
No, the answer is, if you want your coin mech to accept any coins that are different to what it's currently taking, then the coin mech will need to be re-programmed, as will the 10s of 1,000s of coin mechs up and down the country, costing the industry millions when it's already in difficult times. Same thing applies to note acceptors when a new style note is brought out.
The denomination may be the same, but the size, shape and metal content, and therefore the electrical resistance, of new coins will set them apart from the old coins, as will the various counterfeiting measures built into our notes.
If yuodon't want the expense or hassle of re-programming, do as someone else said, and just use £1 coins, but sooner or later, they'll change them too and screw us all.
I dunno what he means by the royal mint semding a signal to your machine ~ how they gonna do that then ? I presume your MPU5 based machine doesn't even hook up to the net !!!
No, the answer is, if you want your coin mech to accept any coins that are different to what it's currently taking, then the coin mech will need to be re-programmed, as will the 10s of 1,000s of coin mechs up and down the country, costing the industry millions when it's already in difficult times. Same thing applies to note acceptors when a new style note is brought out.
The denomination may be the same, but the size, shape and metal content, and therefore the electrical resistance, of new coins will set them apart from the old coins, as will the various counterfeiting measures built into our notes.
If yuodon't want the expense or hassle of re-programming, do as someone else said, and just use £1 coins, but sooner or later, they'll change them too and screw us all.
