user-manual emit mini time recorder version 3 and thermal printer
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1. USER MANUAL EMIT MINI TIME RECORDER VERSION 3 AND THERMAL PRINTER Emit 19 0ct 2003 rev 3 Emit AS Tel 22910300 Bank 6011 05 80439 St Halvards gt 33 Fax 22910301 WEB www emit n 0192 OSLO E mail emit emit no Foretaksnr 930127868 Page 2 The Emit Mini Time Recorder version 3 MTR3 is especially developed for use together with our Electronic Punching and Timing system when using electronic timing i e when the runner s total time is to be recorded by the electronic card carried by each participant The MTR3 is programmed to communicate both a PC or with the thermal printer EPR 3 or the previous version Martel MCP9810 PRINTER OPERATION Printing on Martel MCP9810 In order to print with MTR3 to the Martel printer a special split cable Y cable has to be used This cable is available as optional equipment from Emit Connect the cable to the MTR3 and printer and PC if PC is in use before turning on the Martel Printer Printing on the EPR 3 A separate cable with a small 6 pin PS 2 cable is used to connect to the EPR 3 Plug the cable into the printer before powering up the printer If this cable is too short it can be extended by using a PC keyboard extension cable Maximum 3 meters of extension is allowed as longer cables can draw more current from built in battery Simultaneous printers and PC It is possible to connect printer and PC at the same time It is also possible to conn2. press MODE once shortly and count the number of times the ERROR LED blinks 4 Repeat step 3 until the ERROR LED blinks only once it will cycle through 1 2 and 3 blinks 1 blink means RS 232 C protocol 5 Press FEED button once shortly the MODE LED will blink twice indicating that we are entering baudrate selection mode Count the number of blinks on the ERROR LED it should be 4 meaning 9600 baud If there were NOT 4 blinks press MODE shortly and count number of ERROR LED blinks Repeat step 6 until ERROR LED blinks 4 times 8 Press FEED button once the MODE LED should blink 3 times Count the number of blinks on the ERROR LED it should be 2 9 If there were NOT 2 blinks press MODE shortly and count number of ERROR LED blinks 10 Repeat step 9 until ERROR LED blinks 2 times 11 Press FEED button once the MODE LED should blink 4 times Count the number of blinks on the ERROR LED it should be 1 12 If there was not 1 blink press MODE shortly and count number of ERROR LED blinks 13 Repeat step 12 until ERROR LED blinks 1 time 14 Press FEED button once the MODE LED should blink 5 times Count the number of blinks on the ERROR LED it should be 3 15 If there were not 3 blinks press MODE shortly and count number of ERROR LED blinks 16 Repeat step 15 until ERROR LED blinks 3 times 17 Press MODE and FEED simultaneously to store new settings nG Page 5 PC OPERATION POWER ON To connect the MTR3 to
3. light when charging the printer When fully charged it will change to a green light Battery capacity new and full battery pack has sufficient power to print continuously for approximately 1 hour When battery level becomes low the green power LED will blink red while printing indicating that battery should be changed or charged One hour of printing is approximately printing of 1200 ECards with 15 punches Power On Self Test The self test procedure is initiated by turning on the printer with the FEED button pressed Release the feed button and the self test procedure will start This will check most of the printer functions and also print the firmware version and protocol in use The protocol should show MODE RS 232C SERIAL 9600 BAUD 8 DATA BIT NO PARITY 1 STOP BIT Resetting the protocol The protocol of the printer was correctly set when the printer left EMIT If the protocol has been changed it can be reset to the correct reading by following this procedure If in doubt you can at any moment turn the printer off in an on to start over without storing modifications The modification will only be stored when pressing MODE and FEED at the same time see step 17 below 1 Turn the printer ON Press and hold the MODE button down until the red ERROR LED has flashed 5 times then release MODE The MODE LED should now blink once com settings and the ERROR LED should also blink once RS232C Mode 3 Ifthe ERROR LED didn t blink once
4. T start control to the last control before the FIRST MTR2 or 250 control Under normal situations the maximum number of controls that the ECard can hold is 48 controls not counting Start 0 and MTR 250 Page 3 The remaining printout is one for every control visited it consists of 4 fields Field 1 Control counter This is a sequential count of every line control of the race The last control is printed with an for finish instead of the sequence number Field 2 Split time The time from the previous control to this control Field 3 Accumulated time The time from the start unit 0 until this control Field 4 Control code of this control If the MTR3 s internal battery is low a special line is printed after the last line of controls with some parameters and the word low at the end of the line Memory dump printout If an ECard is placed on top the MTR3 for more than 6 seconds a Memory dump printout of all 50 positions in the ECards is printed This printout in meant for debugging purposes i e if more than one race is stored in the ECard The attached printer will on the first line print the tag number the total time and for non yellow ECards the number of races the ECard has been used Example 12345 1 02 17 10027 meaning Ecard number 12345 total time 1 hour 2 minutes and 17 seconds and 27 races Low power controls When controls have week batteries they insert a 99 code just before their control number Th
5. e MTR3 does print this 99 control number as an ordinary control just after the control with low battery The control counter in the first field of the printout will in such case be too high THE EPR 3 THERMAL PRINTER The Emit EPR 3 is a compact and light weight portable thermal printer with an RS232 serial interface via a 6 pin PS 2 style connector It is powered from an environment friendly replacable7 2V Ni MH battery pack Average printing speed is 12 lines per second and paper width is 57 or 58mm Operating range is 0 to 50 degrees C Paper out detection The printer will automatically detect when the paper has run out and the red ERROR LED will blink rapidly After replacing the paper the printer will continue to print all data in its 10K buffer This is sufficient to hold print data for about 20 ECards with 20 controls each One should NOT power off the printer during replacement of the paper as the print data then will be lost but the MTR3 keeps the data so spooling to PC will still work Inserting new paper Note that maximum roll diameter for EPR 3 is 40 mm The printer has a clam shell design making it very easy to change paper The paper roll is inserted into the compartment and the end of the paper is extended outside the printer while closing the cover o2 SS Page 4 Charging the battery The power adapter will charge an empty battery full in approximately 4 to 5 hours The adapter shows a steady red
6. ect 2 printers at the same time with or without the PC but a special Y cable has to be used for this purpose When using a two printer setup no extension cables should be used Reset The MTR3 can be reset making a short circuit on pin 23 and 24 OPERATION To read an ECard place it in on top of the MTR3 The antenna in the ecard is on the opposite side of the rubber band attachment That side of the ECard should be centered to make the MTR3 read the Ecard The green LED thumbs up on top of the MTR3 will flash and a beep will sound when the ECard has correctly been read by the MTR3 If the red LED is lighted no sound the MTR3 has not correctly read the ECard Try to realign the ECard in order to get a better antenna contact between the ECard and the MTR3 The MTR3 will only make one printout of an ECard if you want another printout of the same ECard another ECard has to be read first before allowing the previous ECard to be re printed Normal printout First line of printout is EMIT timing system Second line is time and date in hh mm ss DD MM YYYY format Third line is the ECards serial number followed by race time or Total time in expanded font The total time is the time from the ECard left a start control 0 to the time it was placed on the last control before the MTR3 reads the ECard If the ECard has been placed on several start control s or placed on several MTR s or 250 controls the total time is the time from the LAS
7. rage use The most power consuming operation is spooling the MTR s memory The lifetime calculations have been done by assuming that every card that is read by the MTR3 is sent 3 times to a PC printer once when reading and then 2 later spooling operations If spooling is done much more frequent or software is abusing the MTR by requesting information repeatedly polling the lifetime of the MTR will be shortened ENVIRONMENT The MTR3 is almost waterproof It is not advisable to submerge the MTR into water as the buzzer might be damaged from the water pressure It will work fine in temperatures down to minus 20 degrees Celsius the thermal printer however is not designed to tolerate water or temperatures below 0 degrees
8. the PC using the enclosed 9 pin female to 25 pin male connector If using the optional split cable Y cable the 9 pin female connector is for attaching to a standard PC serial port the 9 pin male connector for connection a Martel printer The protocol used is public and can be found on EMIT s WEB site www emit no OPERATION OF MTR3 WHEN PC IS CONNECTED The MTR is operated in the same way as when the printer is attached If the PC is sending commands to the MTR requesting data or status messages delays can eventually be noticed when reading an ECard ECARD HISTORY FILE The MTR will store the most recent ECard s internal memory ECard history file When this memory is filled the oldest data is discarded The number of ECards that a MTR can hold depends on the number of controls stored in each ECard The following guide gives an indication of how many ECards a MTR3 can hold 10 controls gt 1000 ECards 20 controls gt 600 ECards 50 controls gt 250 ECards The MTR3 also stores pointers to the first ECard read after an approximate 8 hour delay without reading or after sending a NS new session command Some software programs might use this information to ease the downloading of data from the previous event and not loading data from earlier events The last 8 session pointers are kept in the MTR3 BATTERIES The MTR3 uses a built in 3 6 V Lithium battery This battery has sufficient power to provide approximately 10 years of ave
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