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Friday, November 18, 2005

Conifgure the Microscan slave for Daisy Chain

The conditions for a daisy chain application are as

follows:

1. The master reader’s trigger must be Serial or

External; the secondary readers’ triggers are

configured for Serial.

2. All readers are enabled to Daisy Chain

mode.

3. Each reader’s auxiliary port must be connected to the Host port of

its secondary reader.

4. Each secondary reader in the daisy chain must be set to send its

data no less than 20mS before its preceding reader.

5. All but the master reader must have Postamble enabled and set to

CR (^M) only.

6. All but the master reader must have their noread messages disabled.

7. If Multisymbol is enabled, Multisymbol Separator characters

must match in all readers and Number of Symbols must be set to

number large enough to include all the symbols it may itself read

plus the number of symbols that it will be expected to relay to the

host or the next reader up the line.

8. Symbology ID enable/disable must be the same in all readers.

9. All but the master reader must have their diagnostic warning messages

disabled.

10. Daisy Chain ID Status enable/disable and the number of characters

in Daisy Chain ID must be the same in all readers.

 

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