Serial Communications - Motorola RD5000 Integrator Manual

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Serial Communications

Serial communications are connected in the same way that the battery charging is connected. Except that the
Charging Cable with Serial Communications (see
Serial communication is only used for software de-bugging and for image uploading.
Power Supply Connection
Figure 1-5
Table 1-3
LED Indication
BATTERY LED
Green
Green-Red Flash
Solid Red
Off
Slow Blinking Amber
Solid Amber
Fast Blinking Amber
Power
Supply
Charging
Cable
RD5000 LED Indicators
Reader is on, battery charge is greater than 80%.
Reader is on, green LED flashes red when charge is less than 80%.
Duration of the red flash increases as the battery charge drops. At 79%
very short red flash, at 41% longer red flash.
Battery charge is less than 40%, at 20% a beeper sounds every ½
second, at 13% the unit turns off.
Reader is off.
Reader is charging.
Charging complete.
Error in charging; check the reader.
Figure 3-7 on page 3-8) is used instead of the Charging Cable.
Battery Charging and
Serial Communications
Description