Comments on: Rollmaster CLXX Motorized Coin Sorter

By: Kenneth L. Scales

Kenneth L. Scales — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:14:16 +0000

I purchased this coin sorter and was very disappointed. The sorter has trouble recognizing the diffrence between quaters and dollar coins. When I first started sorting coins it would frequently jam no matter the setting and I could never get the same total back to back. The coins, espicially the quaters would jam up right where they exit the sorter before going into the coin tubes and it also has trouble telling the diffrence between dimes and pennies. I would be careful if deciding to purchase this one. Do some research, I wish I would have.

Ken
Rating: 2 / 5

By: T. Stowell

T. Stowell — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:37:50 +0000

Where to begin…the power supply is ill-fitting and doesn’t stay plugged in. The shaker feature hasn’t worked since day one and the machine constantly jams. AVOID.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Phillip J. Bramwell

Phillip J. Bramwell — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:10:34 +0000

Out of the box, the product performs well below its advertised capability.

For one, it can only handle a small number of coins at a time. Regardless of settings (including the Shaker feature, which is supposed to reduce jamming, but just makes the unit incredibly loud), the machine jams often, requiring all the little parts to be swung open, all the coins cleaned out, and put back together.

The reason I bought it was for accuracy, and this is my biggest disappointment. I tested it with 272 pennies. It often sorted incorrectly - believing the pennies to be dimes, but also occasionally a quarter. If it jams, it will think any coin is any possible coin, before it shuts down. I could make it work if it was on the slowest setting, Shaker on, and carefully fed pennies, with the cover off so I could watch them catch, making sure there were no jams, so I could properly gauge its accuracy.
It reported 272 pennies as: 253, 246, 242, 245, and 239. The box claims 99.9% accuracy; that should be a fraction of a penny, not 33 pennies.

I paid $120 for this product. Even if it was more accurate and didn't jam as often, it would still be overpriced. Rating: 1 / 5

By: Dr. Samuel C. Conway

Dr. Samuel C. Conway — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:49:39 +0000

I purchased this product on the promise that it would handle up to 500 coins a minute. I added the coins slowly at first to judge how much it could take at one time. The unit jammed almost immediately. There is no outward sign of a jam other than finding that coins have been scattered randomly among the coin tubes. Hardly a good feature for an instrument that is supposed to sort coins! I cleared the jam (with some difficulty) and noted in the manual that running the machine at its fastest, or “turbo” speed, can lead to jams. I put it on the slowest speed and fed coins in at a very slow pace. The unit jammed again after about 200 coins — once again, no obvious sign that anything was wrong, other than to find pennies in the quarter and nickel tubes, and dimes in every tube available. Throughout the afternoon we counted between 3000 and 4000 coins and the unit jammed more than a dozen times. A friend who was sorting coins by hand and measuring them in a tray finished about the same number in the same amount of time. The unit is being returned tomorrow.
Rating: 1 / 5