Daisy Chain Id - Microscan MS-9 User Manual

RS-232 Auxiliary Port
The conditions for a daisy chain application are as
Conditions:
follows:
1. The master scanner's trigger must be Serial
2. All scanners are enabled to Daisy Chain
3. Each scanner's auxiliary port must be connected to the Host port of
4. Each secondary scanner in the daisy chain must be set to send its
5. All but the master scanner must have Postamble enabled and set
6. All but the master scanner must have their noread messages disabled.
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-

Daisy Chain ID

Usage: Used in a daisy chain setup in cases where the host needs to know which
scanner sent the data.
A one or two character prefix which identifies the particular daisy chain
Definition:
scanner from which the data is being sent.
<K101,aux port mode,baud rate,parity,stop bits,data bits,daisy chain ID
Serial Cmd:
status,daisy chain
Default: 1/
Any one or two ASCII characters.
Options:
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or External; the secondary scanners' triggers
are configured for Serial.
mode.
its secondary scanner.
data no less than 20
to CR (^M) only.
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.
ID>
mS before its preceding scanner.
Host
Secondary
Master