Tyco Electronics 17A2 Peripherals Specifications, Magnetic Stripe Reader MSR, Customer Display

Peripherals Specifications

Magnetic Stripe Reader (MSR)

The MSR is a USB 1.1 device which reads all three data stripes on standard credit cards or driver’s licenses conforming to ISO/ANSI standards. The MSR will have foreign language capability. The credit card is read by sliding the credit card through the MSR, stripe side toward the display, forward or backward. The MSR is powered from the USB port; no external power is needed. Here are its specifications:

•Power source: from USB port

•Message format: ASCII

•Card speed: 3 to 50 IPS

•Electronics MTBF: 125,000 hours

•Mechanical MTBF: 1,000,000 passes

•Operating current: 30 mA maximum

•Non-operating current: 300u maximum

Customer Display

The Customer Display is a twenty character two line vacuum fluorescent display (VFD). It consists of a VFD and VFD controller.

USB Version

Optional Parameters
Characters per row	20
Number of rows	2
Character configuration	5x7 dot matrix
Character Height	9.5mm
Character width	6.2mm
Character configuration	ASCII
Character color	Blue green
MTBF	300,000 hours

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