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| Tokheim
Premier "B" and "C" |
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| Description |
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Premier series, models “B” (left hand drawing)
and “C,” (right hand drawing) is Tokheim’s
last production series. It replaced the TCS in 1994
as a response to major oil company preferences that
all dispensers have a similar appearance. |
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are two versions of the Premier B. The first design
featured separate “snap together” upper and
lower door sections. The second design was referred
to as the “VED” or Value-Engineered-Dispenser.
It has a “1 piece” door design with the upper
and lower doors bolted together. The electronics in
this second series stayed the same but some minor bracket
and sound insulation
changes were made in the hydraulic cabinet to |
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| reduce
the rattling that sometimes occurred due to hydraulic
hammer when the nozzle was shut off. |
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| Tokheim
had problems with rain getting into the first version
“B” electronic heads, so had to replace the
main seals for the head and design a seal for the grade
select switches. This was a major factory retrofit effort,
with Tokheim factory staff actually driving around the
country in vans and installing the kits. |
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| In
2000, the Premier C was introduced. The C combined the
best of Schlumberger Centurion and the Premier B, placing
the B electronics in the Centurion electronic housing
and adopting a number of innovations from the Centurion
hydraulic design. Basically, the electronic portions
of the solenoid valves and of the pulsers were moved
up into the electronic cabinet. This produced savings
because they were no longer subject to the UL explosion-proofing
standards that applied to the hazardous hydraulic cabinet.
The bullet-proof 898 seriesmeters were used instead
of the newer, less proven, Schlumberger design. Use
of the Schlumberger cabinet permitted a lowered card
reader keypad to meet the ADA reach height requirement. |
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| Electronics |
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The Premier B featured a new dispenser electronics card cage and boards and new DPT (card reader) electronics. Like the Wayne Vista “unified display,” all customer displays (price per gallon, gallons, dollars) were moved onto a single circuit board, reducing the number of boards per pump significantly and consequently increasing reliability. The separate product identification
panels were also replaced with a dial face that could easily be decaled for any configuration, although initial production used screen printed faces. |
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| Initially, the DPT (card reader) printer in the B was a “cutter” style that had major field |
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| reliability problems. As a result, the DPT was converted to a “tear bar” design and the vast majority of the installed base was also converted. |
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| For the Premier C, the B electronics were used with only minor changes to the DPT CPU and UDC software. |
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| Console
Compatibility |
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| Anything MEMS IV (184) with 5.00 software or greater will operate Premiers, blenders or not. A “67 box” is required. For card readers (DPT) a Ruby or later console is required. |
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| The Verifone Ruby Gemstone or Tokheim Columbus POS systems are required for units with cash acceptors. |
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| Comments/Usage
Recommendation |
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Although Tokheim is no longer manufacturing
equipment, Dresser-Wayne has acquired the Tokheim parts business and intends to support Tokheim service parts customers for the foreseeable future. We feel that this commitment, together with the large installed base of Tokheim equipment, means that parts supply will continue to be good. |
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