Table of Contents Features ..................3 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station Overview ........3 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station Features ........3 Description ..................4 Connections ................... 5 Installation ..................7 Operating the Diagnostic Charging Station ........8 Powering Unit On ................... 8 A Search for Bluetooth devices begins ...........
Features Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station Overview 15” 1024 x 768 SVGA colour display with touch screen Six radio handset charging ports Wire bound connector for testing wire bound handset 12 Volt auxiliary supply output terminals ...
The unit is equipped with a touch screen for easy onsite operation, negating the need to use a keyboard or mouse for every day testing. Radio handsets are detected during a search when they are on charge. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 4 / 30...
Ethernet port CANBUS ‘D’ connector USB port Radio Handset charging connectors Wire bound handset socket The external connections on the left hand side of the unit are shown below: November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 5 / 30...
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Cooling Fan ON / OFF Switch Power IEC Socket (Fuse Holder Below) November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 6 / 30...
Ventilation to and from the unit must not be restricted The operators should be trained in the safe use of the equipment, such that operational hazards arising from misuse are avoided. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 7 / 30...
The unit is powered on by operating the switch on the left hand side of the unit and will automatically load the diagnostic display shown below Touch the “SEARCH FOR HANDSETS” button to start the search. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 8 / 30...
OFF if the handset is logged on to it (Handsets online to a Radio Receiver will not be found). The search will find all discoverable Bluetooth devices including mobile phones, laptops etc. but will then discard any that are not Radio Handsets. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 9 / 30...
On this screen simply select using the touch screen the handsets you wish to connect. Once highlighted simply click the OK button and the unit will connect to the specified handsets. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 10 / 30...
Screen showing connected handsets A maximum of 6 radio handsets can be displayed at once. Note: If a wire bound handset is connected then this is reduced to 5. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 11 / 30...
Testing for correct operation of handset keys The above shows 2 handset keys depressed – all keys are monitored in this way November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 12 / 30...
Touch the panel again to de-select it. With a detected radio handset highlighted the “update software”, “update font chip” and “Set S/N & H/W Version” buttons become available for that handset. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 13 / 30...
A password is then required to continue and a password box is displayed: The “Enter Password” box. The Password is entered by touching or selecting the squares as shown above. This takes the form of an uppercase “E” November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 14 / 30...
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Selecting OK shows a “select file” box containing a list of available files. Select the required file to update the radio handset Select OK to start the update. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 15 / 30...
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A progress bar indicates the current updating progress as shown below: On completion touch the “OK” button to return from the update screen November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 16 / 30...
A password is then required to continue and a password box is displayed: The “Enter Password” box is available The Password is entered by selecting (touching) the squares as shown above. This takes the form of an uppercase “E” November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 17 / 30...
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On selecting “OK”, the download automatically starts as shown below: On completion touch the “OK” button to return from the update screen Note: This update takes approximately 40 minutes to complete November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 18 / 30...
A password is then required to continue and a password box is displayed: The “Enter Password” box is available The Password is entered by selecting (touching) the squares as shown above. This takes the form of an uppercase “E” November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 19 / 30...
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Move the highlight to other fields that are required to be altered. When happy with the entry, click the OK button to send to the handset. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 20 / 30...
After a Radio Handset is turned off it is displayed as “Offline” as shown above. Touch “RECONNECT HANDSETS” button to try and reconnect any radio that is offline. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 21 / 30...
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Offline handsets are attempted (up to 3 times) to be reconnected. If successful the handset will come online again. If not it will stay as offline. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 22 / 30...
The keys can be tested the same as the radio handsets. When a wire bound handset is connected the maximum number of radio handsets which can be displayed is limited to 5. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 23 / 30...
These occasional low readings are normal (this is how Bluetooth works) and therefore should be ignored only looking for the long periods that the reading is green and around 65mW. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 24 / 30...
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Before checking the RF power the RF power level on the handset should be set to RF4/MAX – see the “Eickhoff Bi-Di Radio Mk2 User Manual” for details. *The RF power meter is calibrated to read Bluetooth power from a MK2 Radio Handset and using the factory supplied TNC lead only.
5.13 Updating Diagnostic Station S/W and adding new .hex Files 1) Copy the required files (Eickhoff Diagnostic Station.exe and any new handset software version – EHRv#_##.hex) onto a pen drive and insert into the USB port on the RHS of the diagnostic station.
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4) Navigate to folder D:\Eickhoff Diagnostic\ and rename “Eickhoff Diagnostic Station.exe” to “old Eickhoff Diagnostic Station.exe” 5) From the pen drive (E:\) copy “Eickhoff Diagnostic Station.exe” to D:\Eickhoff Diagnostic\. 6) Copy any new software .hex file (EHRv#_##.hex ) and paste into D:\Updatefiles\ 7) Unmount and remove the pen drive.
5.14 CANBUS / MK2 Machine Radio C515184 Test 1) Select Diagnostic Station software “CSL Eickhoff CANBUS Radio Test Program MK2”. 2) Connect Machine Radio to Diagnostic Station 12Vdc O/P terminals and connect Machine Radio (X2-CANBUS) to Diagnostic Station “CANBUS” connector.
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For more detailed information about the take-back and recycling contact Controlled Systems Ltd. November 2015 – Issue 1.6 Eickhoff Diagnostic Charging Station 30 / 30...
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