Worth Data 701 RF manual Problems with a new installation

If you are using rechargeable batteries, you must change the Batteries parameter in the Terminal Setup to reflect the usage of rechargeable

batteries, otherwise you will strange behavior on the Terminal including:

Intermittent laser beams, continuous beeping, black bars on the screen, etc. See Chapter 2: Batteries to change the setting. To display the remaining

battery life of the AA batteries and the type of batteries the Terminal is expecting, press the STATUS key shows:

AAxBAT￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿￿-zz%

x=a when Alkaline batteries are specified in Battery setup

x=n when NiMH or NiCad batteries specified in Battery setup

Press the STATUS key again to resume processing.

Problems with a new installation:

“Waiting for Base to Acknowledge” is a normal message, generated when

you first try to establish radio contact. If your Terminal continues to generate this message and it ultimately results in a "Transmission Failed"

message, your radios are not communicating. Be sure they’re on the same channel and try again. If you have multiple terminals, try another terminal. If the 2nd terminal also fails on the same channel, the base station is bad. If the 2nd terminal passes the Site Test, the first terminal is bad.

If the Terminal displays the “Waiting on Host Prompt” message, the host program is not communicating with the Base Station. There is no radio problem, because the Base Station has already acknowledged the Terminal’s Sign In. The Terminal is waiting on the Host to tell it to do something. Try the demo program; if it works the problem is your program.

If using the Active X program with XP, be sure "connection pooling" is disabled.

If the demo program fails, the problem is one of the following:

1.The cable between the Base Station and host computer is bad. Try the test with extension cables removed.

2.The host COM port is bad or assigned to another device driver installed. Try another COM port or try another computer.

3.RARELY !!!The RS232 chip (U13 location) on the Base Station is bad. If you have other Bases, swap these pluggable chips to see if the problem goes away.

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