Intel J2 650 system manual Cash Drawer Ports Cash Drawer Pin Assignment

Cash Drawer Ports

The 650 is equipped standard with two Cash Drawer ports. These ports are located in the cable well and use the industry standard RJ-11 connector and pin out (illustrated below).

Cash Drawer Ports

Cash Drawer Pin Assignment

6 1

Pin	Signal
1	GND

2SOLENOID

3STATUS

4	24V
5	NC
6	GND

The application may address the Cash Drawer port in a number of ways. They are:

1)Using the J2 supplied OPOS drivers for Vista, XP, WEPOS and XP Embedded.

2)Using the J2 supplied Virtual COM port for CE.NET, XP, WEPOS and XPe.

3)Direct access to the I/O port that controls the firing of the cash drawer and the I/O port for reading the drawer status.

The Virtual COM port driver is standard on Windows CE.NET and the cash drawer appears as COM5.

To open Cash Drawer One: Send a bell character to the COM5 serial port. (The bell character is the ASCII 07 hex character “Control G.”)

To open Cash Drawer Two: Send an ESC character, then a bell character to the COM5 serial port. The open/close status of the drawer may be obtained by reading the status

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Version 0.4 August 20, 2008