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RS-232 Auxiliary Port
Conditions: The conditions for a daisy chain application are as follows:
1. The master scanner's trigger must be Serial or
2. All scanners are enabled to Daisy Chain mode.
3. Each scanner's auxiliary port must be connected
4. Each slave scanner in the daisy chain must be
5. All but the master scanner must have Postamble enabled and set
6. All but the master scanner must have their noread messages dis-
7. If Multisymbol is enabled, Multisymbol Separator characters
8. Symbology ID enable/disable must be the same in all scanners.
9. All but the master scanner must have their diagnostic warning mes-
10. Daisy Chain ID Status enable/disable and the number of charac-
Command Processing Mode
Usage: Allows user to send configuration from the Host port or the AUX port.
Definition: When enabled, Command Processing allows commands to be entered
via the aux port. The following rules apply:
1. Bar code data, including the serial trigger if used, will be transmit-
2. If a reset occurs, all data will be transmitted to the host port.
Serial Cmd: <K101,aux port
ID status,daisy chain ID>
Options: 5 = Command Processing
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External; the slave scanners' triggers are con-
figured for Serial.
to the Host port of its slave scanner.
set to send its data no less than
to CR (^M) only.
abled.
must match in all scanners 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 scanner up the line.
sages disabled.
ters in Daisy Chain ID must be the same in all scanners.
ted to the last port from which a command was sent.
mode,baud rate,parity,stop bits,data bits,daisy chain
20 mS before its preceding scanner.
Host
Slave
Master