Went for a cheaper model and found this one instead cuz the old one had been discontinued. Prayed about it and realized this was going to be a good investment.
First off. Tech support was awesome before and after I bought it. I had lots of questions because if I was gunna put down this much cash I wanted to make sure it was going to do what I wanted it to do.
First off should let you know I was buying the cheaper 'kids toys' for years and could have bought one of these and then some for the numbers that broke. I do what is called 'coin roll hunting' where you get coins rolls from the bank, break em open, go through them and look for cool stuff and then pull em out. Silver quarters, silver dimes. wheat cents, etc... Well you can go through a LOT of change that way. So some notes:
1) You can fill the hopper and keep going and gonig. Only makes a mistake once in a very long while. I ran the same 80$s worth of mixed change through it over and over again and it was always accurate to within one coin mostly exactly, once or twice +/- 1, usually a dime.
2) You can put the bins in and collect the coins in piles or put the tubes in and do it by tubes.
3) With the bins the bins are rearrangeable with two sizes, large and small. In the default configuration sadly the penny is a small so it can fill pretty fast if your like me gong through tons of pennies, however I have a solution for that in a minute.
4) You can set the 'batch size' where you tell it how many to count OF EACH TYPE DIFFERENT before it stops. Then when it stops it tells you which one was full. This is great for when you set different bin sizes or use tubes or mix. There is a way to set it to the default tube sizes (as in for rolling for the bank) so you dont have to do those by hand. Sadly there is no default setting for the bins so you gotta bunch those by hand. I default to 300 since thats teh minimum for all of them so I dont have to memorize for each bin. (It tells you in the booklet).
5) The tubes are designed to take the shotgun tubes which is fine. But I prefer the flat wrappers because you can get 1000 for 7 dollars and keep them in the tiny box they come in versus paying 10 times that and taking up so much space. Sadly though you have to do some modification for that. There are slots at the bottom of the tubes (you can see them in the picture where the wrapper shows through) where if you dont cover the slot and your not using a preformed tube, the coin will bounce out. I took some extra quarter wrappers and wrapped them around the tubes at the bottom so they wouldnt pop out. Viola fix. Now all you have to do is fill it to the right max and then take the flat wrapper and dump it in. Sadly the tubes are a dark grey so you need rally good light to make sure its all inside the wrapper and you didnt miss any and have them fall on the floor.
6) NOW MY NEAT HACK!! I have one of those penny contraptions that sorts the pennies by copper vsus not copper (The copper in a pre 1983 penny is worth twice the penny itself. Tho currently its illeage to melt down the pennies that ban is supposed to be lifted in the next 5 to 10 years when they stop minting pennies. Its the new fad but I just do it for fun.) So anyway I am making a system to feed it directly into the sorter I designe from a kit and so I what I did was a bought an extra set of tubes. (5 dollars are tube from the company, bit expensive but worth it for me) and dremeled off the ends. NOW I can sort them into whatever bucket/pouch/whatever I like and not have to be limited by the tubes/bins. I tested this by putting a large dishpan underneath it and ran the 80 dollar test batch through it. OH NEAT TRICK. BATCH ZERO IS DONT STOP. If you set it to zero it doesnt stop unless you hit the stop button. So I ran my 80$s through it non stop into the dishpan and it was just fine.
My friend is bringing over his penny jar, a half or so home depot bucket of pennies that we are going to dump through it so I cacn count it and buy them off him for my project. With my hacked tube for the pennies I can just keep dumping them in and have them spit out into my own container and give him back his bucket. Counts fine too so I can give him cash.
One side note though is you do need to make sure its empty when you turn it on cuz it spits out the first few as a self test. Doesnt seem to be a problem though. I ran it with wha was left in the hopper after that just fine.
Also there is a hatch on the back that is for getting jams out and I'm not entirely sure how it works. Hasnt jammed so far but I am careful to check for things like paper clips and staples and what not. The hatch is VERY hard to get off and I suspect you would have to til the machine a lot to get something out so I dont know i that means if it jam jams you have to dump all the coins out, or if it will get stuck in the machine or what. Hope I never have to find out!!
There is a anti-jam process it goes through which I dont know how it works but its mentioned in the manul and one time it made this horrible grinding sound which was mentioned and then it was fine. So I guess maybe it does some massive vibration thing to shake things loose.
Thats it! I ran 100 dollars of quarters and dimes through ti roll em and it was wonderful. The quarers were from shotgun tubes and the dimes were flat wrappers (You can NOT put the flat ones directly in the tubes).
| Manufacturer | Cassida Corporation |
|---|---|
| Brand | Cassida |
| Item Weight | 12 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 10.8 x 11.2 x 10.2 inches |
| Item model number | C200 |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Color | Black |
| Material Type | Plastic |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Size | Letter |
| Manufacturer Part Number | C200 |
