CONTENTS Package content ........................... 5 View of the product ........................5 Product description ........................5 Warning ............................. 6 Installation ..........................7 Operation ........................... 7 Communication protocol ........................8 Maintenance ..........................13 Maintenance ..........................13 10. Customer service ........................13 STORICO REVISIONI Revisione n°...
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Alberici S.p.A. reserves the right to modify, without prior notice and in any way, any part of this manual and the technical specifications of this product, as part of the continuous pursuit of improvement of its products.
Dear Customer, we would like to thank you and congratulate for your choice. We trust that you will appreciate the quality and performance of the LYNX card reader. This system communicates by cctalk protocol, AES 256 encrypted by the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol. Please read carefully this handbook, to obtain the most from this product.
3.2 Compatible cards The IC card (microchip) must comply with the ISO 7816 standards (providing size and positions of the 8 contacts). The physical features of the magnetic card must comply with ISO 7810 and ISO 7811: - dimensions: 85.60 × 53.98 mm (see ISO7810 ID-1) - relief: see ISO7811-1, -3 - recording format: (see ISO7811-2, -4, -5, -6) 3.3 Technical specs...
Installation Dimensions The front panel of the LYNX reader can be positioned outside or inside the cabinet. Its snap-in/clip-out system easily delivers the reader body in hand for any quick maintenance operation. Connections 5.2.1 ccTalk socket pin-out Operation When the card reader is in stand-by, its LEDs light up in still blue color. While the card is being introduced into the reader slot, the LEDs light up in still yellow color.
Communication protocol ccTalk communication commands - Baud rate (BPS): default 9600 BPS - Default ccTalk specific address = 0x33 (can be changed by header 251 Address change) 7.1 Extracting the date of birth (full age control) Send the "Read date of birth" command at intervals from the master to the reader (see header FFA0 in section 7.2). The reader replies NACK until the card gets inserted.
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Example of full reading from chip: Example of full reading from magnetic stripe: TX > 33 02 01 FF A0 01 2A TX > 33 02 01 FF A0 01 2A RX < 01 08 33 00 31 39 39 30 30 31 31 30 2F RX <...
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- header FFABxxssnn - Read the characters of the Magnetic stripe partition track (available from v. A1.0.6 up) Replies the ASCII characters read in the requested partition track; replies NACK if the card is not inserted, or if the requested data are not available.. Pay attention: the number of characters includes all the available ones (including, if present, ‘start’, ‘end’, ‘LRC’).
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7.3 ccTalk commands for reading the source file - header FFAD00 - Reading of the "source" Returns NACK if the card is absent (or not recognized); returns 1 byte, if the card is inserted and recognized, with the following possible values: 1: magnetic stripe has been read;...
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Manufacturer: TX > 33 00 01 F6 D6 RX < 01 08 33 00 41 6C 62 65 72 69 63 69 A9 (Alberici) 245 Request equipment category id the reader replies by indicating what type of device it is: TX >...
- detailed report of the problem found and the circumstances in which it occurs. Before sending the product, please get in touch with your Dealer or with Alberici S.p.a. (+39 051 944300); very malfunctions can be fixed via a simple phone call, saving you costs and time.
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Lettore di tessere LYNX Lettore di tessere FALCH...
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NOTICE Alberici S.p.A. reserves the right to make changes to the equipment described and to its technical specifications at any time and without notice, in pursuit of continual improvement of this product...
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Progettazione e produzione di sistemi di pagamento, accessori per videogames e macchine vending Design and manufacture of payment systems, accessories for videogames and vending machines Via Ca’ Bianca 421 Tel. + 39 051 944 300 http://www.alberici.net 40024 Castel San Pietro Fax. + 39 051 944 594 Terme (BO) – ITALY...
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