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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