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Cash Machine Terms, Plainly Defined: A Working Glossary for Techs and Buyers

Escrow, cassette, diverter, recycler, ECR… — the vocabulary half the misorders come from, defined in one place.
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Escrow, cassette, diverter, recycler, ECR… — the vocabulary half the misorders come from, defined in one place.

Lithium-class cells and optics-sensitive parts need different boxes and different paperwork — the two lists that keep consignments moving.

Five minutes at the dock beats five hours at the machine — the incoming checks that catch wrong revisions before install day.

Pick wheels, diverters and thickness checks do three jobs in sequence — knowing which one failed halves every repair.

A UPS keeps the machine alive through outages; surge protection keeps the machine alive through the recovery. You need both, specified differently.

A rotation you can actually keep — the small, fixed tasks that stop most downtime before it starts.

Optics fail, boards corrode and lubricants gum up on environmental drift — how to set the cabinet envelope before the hardware sets it for you.

Thermal heads fail on residue, paper paths fail on lint, and most “printer dead” calls are actually a lid sensor — the practical triage.

Magnetic heads, contacts and transport belts wear predictably — a cleaning cadence in transactions, not weeks, doubles service life.

Form factor first, then rails, then protection — a practical way to spec a replacement PSU that survives 24/7 duty.