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Testing Communications
You can prove that the reader is communicating by plugging the reader into your computer,
powering it up (reader and computer) and starting up the Configurator © program. The
settings should automatically appear in the Configurator © screen. If not select the option to
“Get Settings”.
If the data does not appear it is likely that there is a problem with the communications. This
might suggest that the Receive Wire is broken. Try reading a tag. The number should appear
at the bottom of the screen. If it does, this would tend to confirm that it is possible that 1 wire
(the Receive wire) from the Control Box might be broken. IE it can send data out but not
receive data. The fact that the tag number has been received in the Configurator © would
show that the reader is transmitting data. In this case, the reader will still work fine with most
scale heads and computer programs, but you will not be able to change any settings using
Configurator® program.
If you connect the Configurator © program and the nothing appears on the screen and a tag
number doesn’t show up after being read, it would suggest that there may be a problem with
the Transmit wire. In this case, it would be advisable to close Configurator © program and
try another program. Also if you don’t have Configurator © program, there is another
program called HyperTerminal © that comes installed as standard on most computers . You
can also use this to test communications.
Note: you cannot operate Configurator ©, HyperTerminal ©, or any other software that uses
the serial ports on your computer simultaneously. That means you can only have one program
open at once.
Using HyperTerminal ©
. In most computers you can find the HyperTerminal © program by clicking on Start, then
Programs, then Accessories, Then Communications, then HyperTerminal.
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