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all pay boxes include hardware to accept credit cards and gift cards

Connector Inputs and Attachment Options

credit card payment explanation of the various connectors.
  • Red Timer - 12 volts
  • Coin Acceptor - 12 volts
  • Water Meter - 5 volts
  • Water Valve - depends on voltage input between 9 and 20 volts
  • Contractor - no on board power supplied, pass through current
  • depends on external power, maximum of 120 volts AC OR 28 volts DC
  • **  Maximum voltage input to board 20 volts **
  • apply more than 20 volts to board will damage electrical components.

Coin Accept-or

High Quality coin acceptor

$65.00
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Accepts both coins and tokens

Red Timer

Output any 9 volt to 20 volt device

Water Valve for Showers and Garden Hoses

$100.00
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water value used in coin operated showers

Power - Input Power 3 Pin Black White Yellow

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The Power OS board can be powered in two ways.  The first being from the existing red timer power.  To do so unplug the power wires from the red timer Black, White and Yellow(Red on some models).  Then take the power connector and put into "Power Source" input on the blue board.

Power - Input 2.5 mm Power Jack

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The Power OS board can be powered in two ways, the second being from wall outlet.  By doing so the credit card system can be attached to any number of devices ranging from lights, vending machines, shower, massage chairs and more.  Wall adapter power source is used when no coin box is requires and the customer want to accept strictly credit card payment throw the mobile payment application.

Electricity Sensor Input  3.5 mm Audio Jack

AC Current Sensor 15 amp max

$30.00
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Water / Liquid Flow Sensor

Contactor 24 volt to 120 volt AC

Power OS hardware allows a 24 volt to control a 120 volt circuit.  By doing so customers can attached to larger devices such as lights, pool table, arcade games, sauna, microwaves, motors, rental equipment.

120 Volt Contactor 2 Pole 30 Amps 24 Coil Voltage

$40.00
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Transformer AC 120 volt to 24 volt

$30.00
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120 volt wiring diagram
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BLE - Bluetooth Low Energy

  • Authorize mobile application to access Blue Tooth antenna on mobile phone.
  • Refresh Button - refreshes current list of devices broadcasting open paybox connections
  • If there is another user currently connected to the paybox, paybox will not be displayed to any other user
  • When paybox is connected to a mobile device the display will read "ConBLU"
  • After ten minutes of inactivity the paybox blue tooth connection will automatically disconnected mobile phone.  So that other users can connect and send payments.
  • Once a credit card is successfully charged and payment is sent to paybox timer.  The timer will increment and electricity will begin to flow.  The paybox timer at this point will disconnect from mobile phone.

1 device

3 devices

OLED Display

Coin Drop Counter

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Time per coin drop or mobile pulse
Device ID
Number of Coins of Last Transaction
Price of Last Transaction
Software Version
CC - Coin Counter
Mobile Phone Connected via Blue Tooth

Credit Card Payment Hardware

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The credit card application works on both iPhone and iPad and can be downloaded from the apple store free of charge. Download link to be application can be found at iPhone Apple Store install on iPhone and iPad. The application requires blue tooth to be turned on your mobile phone or ipad. The tenant enter the amount of time needed and then purchases time using MasterCard, visa, america express, discover. There are no monthly fees or year memberships. The user of the application must have access to the internet using wifi or carrier data plans.

Base Model Coin Machine

​Base model for both washer and dryer come without credit card hardware. Review the video and check to see that you have the correct model with appropriate mounting holes for new board.

Upgrade By Installing Credit Card Hardware

Once you determined that you have correct mounting holes for the new credit card hardware.  Here is the video which explains how to install your new credit card hardware.  There are 3 extra pieces which are required the main controller, LCD screen and Near Field Communications reader.

Timer Settings How To

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Reset ID
  • Every machine in our network is assigned a unique machine id.  By pressing this button it will auto generate a 6 digit ID.  The machine ID needs to be associated to the landlords email address.  Log into payboxtimer.com, if you do not have an account create it.  Once logged in then go to DEVICES tab and add the machine ID to your device list.
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Reset Coin Counter
  • Every time a coin is inserted into the coin box the pay box help track the number of coins by incrementing a coin counter.  the coin counter is located on the oled screen and is identified by "cc" then a number.  When the coin box is emptied the coin counter button can be used to reset the coin counter timer back to zero.
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Pulse
  • The "pulse" button simulates a coin drop, this mean it's as if the customer actually dropped a real coin in the machine as payment.  The pulse button is very convenient when no coin is available and when the mobile application would need a real credit card to pay.

How to Set Time and Price

 s1 - Increment numbers up
s2 - decrease numbers down
s3 - Is a DUAL functioning button.

The first being when the timer is currently running and is counting down.  The S3 button acts like a STOP timer button.

The second function is a SAVE button.  When a landlord is setting and is in s4 mode.  The s3 button will act like a save settings button.
s4 select run mode
  • select whether to run a electricity timer OR water meter
  • enable and disable device
  • when device is disabled only the machine id, price per coin drop and coin type will be selected
s4 mode selector button
  • quick start set to 01
  • delay start choose number between 2 to 99

​s4 set price per coin drop
  •  hours : minutes : seconds

s4 set alarm​
  • Set count down timer for alarm to go off.  Beeping sound best used to let user know that timer is about to expire in 30 seconds.  Many coin shower customers use this to alert person taking shower that water will turn off or to insert more money using coins or buying more time using mobile application with credit card.

s4 select coin type​
  •  American Quarter
  • ​Metal Token
  • Canadian Loonie
  • Canadian Twoonie

s4 factory reset​
  •  resets all timer setting back to factory defaults​

Over the Air Updates - OTA
We are continually  updating our software which runs on the power OS circuit board.  Power OS comes with a self updating software which downloads the latest firmware and updates itself.

How To Update
  • create a wireless with ssid network named "paybox"
  • password 12345678
  • Unplug machine and plug back in
  • firmware update will begin
  • Once firmware is complete turn off wireless network with ssid "paybox"
  • Unplug machine and plug back in

Pay Box Setup How To

Create stripe account

  1. go to stripe.com and create an account.​

Create account and login

  1. If you have purchased the optional hardware to accept credit card payments via mobile phone
  2. create a PayBoxTimer.com
  3. Login into www.payboxtimer.com

Connect your stripe account with pay box timer Account

  1. Go to “credit card process” tab and select “connect with stripe” button

Credit Card Processor Tab

Machine List Tab

add machine id to account

go to “paybox machine list” tab and add new device

enter in paybox machine ID located on the front pay box into the field “Machine Number”

machine label can be anything, most customers choose a name that mean something to them or their organization.
machine label will be displayed to mobile application user.  When list of machines is displayed the machine label is used to easily identify where to send payment after credit card charge successful.

Android Mobile Phone Application

Enter machine id located on the front for the paybox.

Select amount of time needed from the drop down.

Press "Get Price" button to calculate cost of time duration selected.

Total Amount to becharged to credit card.

Enter credit card number

Charge Credit Card Button will purchase time by charging credit card of customer.