FAS 1050 Excellence Food

The FAS Excellence 1050 measures 1,830 millimetres in height, 1,050 in width and 790 in depth, and weighs 325 kilograms. These are the figures you plan with. The figure that placement attempts fail on is different, and FAS states it explicitly in the datasheet: 1,810 millimetres depth with the door open.

This is the value you must measure before the machine arrives. The glass front door is as wide as the machine, and it must open so someone can stock the product. Between the 790 millimetres during operation and the 1,810 when stocking lies 1,020 millimetres of additional space extending forward. Adding the person standing in front of the open door stocking compartments, the location requires a gangway of around 2.6 metres. In a corridor 1.50 metres wide, this machine can be placed, but not stocked.

FAS provides this value for the entire range, and it scales with width: 1,470 millimetres for the Excellence 750, 1,660 for the 900, 1,810 for the 1050. If space is tight, you therefore buy not only a narrower machine but gain twice during stocking.

By area, the 1050 at 1.05 by 0.79 metres occupies roughly 0.83 square metres and places 392 kilograms per square metre on the floor. The 900 is at 385, the 750 at 398 kilograms per square metre — the range is equally load-bearing across all sizes, which means: if you have verified the floor for a small machine, you have verified it for the large one too.

The range is available in grey and black. The manufacturer image shows the layout standard for this machine format: glass front door across roughly three-quarters of the width, on the right a black operator panel with display, card reader and coin mechanism, at the bottom a large delivery tray.

It is precisely this quarter-width that is the reason the range has a fourth variant. The Excellence FV is 750 millimetres wide like the smallest version, but weighs only 225 kilograms and holds up to 56 selections instead of 42. The difference: it has no operator panel of its own but functions as a satellite unit to another FAS machine. The image makes this clear — glass front across the full width. If you already have a hot-drink machine at the location, with the FV you get one-third more selections on the same footprint than with a standalone unit.

Operation is via a connected Android tablet with seven inches of screen diagonal. FAS explicitly calls it a tablet, not a display, and the distinction is more than terminology: on the product page, the manufacturer describes shopping-cart mode, digital payment, promotional campaigns and advertising space as configuration options for the same interface. A machine where the customer accumulates multiple items and pays once behaves economically different from one that processes individual sales.

For output verification, FAS uses photo cells, listed in the datasheet as product recognition. The purpose, as with all such systems, is to detect a failed vend and not charge for it.

Among protocols, the datasheet names Executive and MDB — the two standards for vending payment systems. Unlike many competitors, connectivity is not limited to a cash register: FAS lists WLAN and Bluetooth Low Energy as built-in and names management via Fas Cloud+, with which the machine can be configured and maintained remotely. The product page refers to WLAN 2.0.

Configuration is the actual planning phase for this machine. The datasheet names six to seven levels and up to 70 selections; the product page elaborates that each level can be populated with up to ten selections in three operating modes: spiral, pusher or HCB for high-capacity bottles. This allows the same machine to run as a snack vender, a beverage vender, or mixed, without changing the frame.

Two features target the person stocking and servicing the machine. Easy Click is FAS's name for a patented system allowing drawers to be swapped without tools — during a product change, that decides between minutes and hours. Slide In Slide Out describes a cooling unit that withdraws for service instead of being disassembled in place.

Additionally available are special bases for sandwiches, pushers and other accessories plus two options the datasheet explicitly lists as surcharges: Shelves Display, which indicates selection at each level more clearly, and anti-break-in profiles. The latter is not accessory hardware for an office hallway, but for the semi-public location.

70 selections across six to seven levels is the ceiling for the Excellence 1050. The number alone tells little; it becomes interesting in relation to floor area.

Across its 0.83 square metres, the 1050 delivers roughly 84 selections per square metre. The Excellence 900 achieves 79, the 750 achieves 71. Unlike many product lines, floor efficiency here improves with size, not worsens — the largest machine is also the most efficient, by 19 per cent versus the smallest.

The reason is the operator panel. It is the same width on all three standalone models and therefore costs proportionally more product width on the narrow machine. Converting to selections per metre of machine width, the 750 is at 56, the 900 at 62 and the 1050 at 67. The FV, which has no operator panel, reaches 75 — the highest value in the range at the narrowest width.

For product planning, the three operating modes per level is the more important point. Spiral for snacks, pusher for tip-sensitive goods, HCB for bottles: because that choice is made per level, a location with high beverage share can assign two levels to HCB and keep the upper levels for snacks. The manufacturer image of the 1050 shows precisely this allocation — three snack levels at the top, two bottle levels, one can level at the bottom.

Cooling is to a minimum internal temperature of plus three degrees, and FAS adds the note "with health control". This is the function required for refrigerated machines with perishable goods: if temperature rises above the permitted value, the machine locks those compartments from sale instead of continuing to vend. Anyone offering sandwiches or dairy products needs this function, and it is good that FAS names it in the datasheet rather than assuming it.

The 1050 additionally includes a pre-cooling compartment, which the datasheet lists as present. On the FV it states "No" — the satellite unit has none. Anyone loading warm product and unable to pre-cool it puts stress on the cooling of the whole machine.

The refrigeration unit works with CO₂ per the datasheet. This is not yet standard for machines in this class and removes the question about future refrigerant bans from the table.

The Excellence 1050 connects to 230 volts at 50 to 60 hertz and has a rated power of 450 watts. That is a standard outlet, and the frequency specification at 50 to 60 hertz shows FAS supplies the same machine globally.

FAS states energy efficiency class C for the 1050. This puts the machine among the better of its type — glass front venders often land at E or F. What is missing, however, is the value behind that class: a datasheet does not provide annual consumption in kilowatt-hours, and without it, no electricity cost calculation is possible. Rated power at 450 watts does not help, because a cooling machine does not run continuously at full load; anyone multiplying it by 24 hours will misjudge the machine as significantly more expensive to operate. This value must be requested in the quotation.

A comparison within the range is instructive, and it runs counter to expectation. All four models have the same rated power of 450 watts. On energy class, however, the smallest version, the Excellence 750, lands at D, while the 900, 1050 and FV reach class C. The smallest machine is thus the least efficient of the range. The reason is the reference value: efficiency class relates consumption to cooled volume, and the same refrigeration technology cooling a larger volume operates more cheaply per litre. For the operator this means: a machine chosen too small saves on acquisition and costs more to run.

On maintenance, FAS names two concrete provisions. The cooling unit withdraws for service instead of being disassembled in place. And drawers can be swapped without tools via the patented Easy Click system. Both are time-savers that become apparent only after the twentieth service visit and therefore rarely figure in quotations.

What the datasheet does not name is equally worth noting: no cleaning or maintenance intervals, no guidance on defrost operation, no filter specifications, no noise value and no refrigerant charge amount. For a machine working with CO₂, the latter would be interesting, because CO₂ systems operate at significantly higher pressures than those with hydrocarbons.

Anyone wanting to cross-check manufacturer specifications will find different figures from dealers, and the differences are instructive. One dealer lists for the same machine 1,060 millimetres width instead of 1,050, roughly 340 kilograms instead of 325, an installed power of 276 watts versus the 450-watt rating, and 48 selections via eight spirals on six levels. None of these figures necessarily contradicts the datasheet: 1,060 millimetres could be an outside dimension with handle, 340 kilograms could be a differently equipped version, 276 watts could be measured power draw versus the rating, and 48 selections are a concrete configuration, not the maximum. The same dealer also names BDV as a third protocol alongside Executive and MDB. For an order this means: dimensions, weight, selection count and protocols belong in the order confirmation, not the brochure.

On climate class, no statement exists either. The minimum internal temperature of plus three degrees is stated, but not the ambient condition under which it is achieved — unlike competitors, who specify 3 degrees at 32 degrees outside temperature and 65 per cent relative humidity. For a summer location without climate control, this is an open question.

FAS publishes no price, neither on the product page nor in the datasheet. This review therefore passes on no figure.

The decision within the range reduces to four questions, and two involve floor area.

First: is there enough space in front of the machine for stocking? 1,810 millimetres with the door open plus the person in front totals roughly 2.6 metres. If you do not have that, take the 900 with 1,660 or the 750 with 1,470 millimetres.

Second: is there already an FAS machine at the location? Then the FV is the more economical choice: same width as the 750, but 56 instead of 42 selections and 11 kilograms lighter because the operator panel is gone. It costs independence, however — without a host machine it will not run, and it has no pre-cooling compartment.

Third: how is the product mix distributed? Three operating modes per level — spiral, pusher, HCB — allow the allocation between snacks and bottles to be changed later without swapping the machine.

And fourth: will you sell perishables? Then the stated temperature monitoring and pre-cooling compartment of the 1050 are not detail extras but prerequisites.

What supports the range does not hinge on price: four datasheets that present the same fields for each size and thus allow genuine comparison — including depth with the door open, which few manufacturers name. Plus energy class C on three of four models, a CO₂ cooling unit, temperature monitoring in the datasheet rather than the fine print, WLAN and Bluetooth built-in, remote management via Fas Cloud+ and two serious service provisions with a withdrawing cooling unit and tool-free drawer swap.

What is missing is concrete: no price, no annual kilowatt-hour value despite an stated energy class, no climate class and thus no ambient condition for the temperature specification, no maintenance intervals, no noise value and no refrigerant fill amount. The datasheet suffices for choosing size; it does not suffice for an operating cost calculation.

Publicly verifiable operator voices could not be found; this section therefore remains empty rather than filled with quotes.

Status: Last updated 8 September 2026. All data from the four datasheets of the Excellence range (750, 900, 1050 and FV) and from FAS product pages.