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Technical and Operational Description
For normal use, the unit is powered by battery. Push the Power Switch Button for about 2 seconds to turn on the
unit. Also push the Power Switch Button for about 2 seconds to turn off the unit at Switch Mode. After the unit is
turned on, the power would be turned off automatically if there is no scanning a card on the unit in 30 seconds (default) at Auto
Power Off Mode. This means the unit would be turned off if no scanning a card again in every 30 seconds (default) after every
card scanning. It would have Low Battery Detect/Warning indication when the unit is powered by battery.
When PCR200/MFR200 is connected/disconnected to external power adapter by the WAS-T0017 RS232 cable or USB port
by the WAS-T0233 USB cable,, it would be turned On/Off automatically. When the unit is connected with the PC through the
communication Cable (WAS-T0017 or WAS-T0233) and the PC is running PCR200/MFR200 software and the unit is turned
on. Then you can do the unit Setting, Configuration or data downloading. When the device is powered by cable from PC, the
Power Switch would have no function and the unit would have no Low Battery Detect/Warning function.
Before start using the unit, you must set the Real Time Clock (RTC) inside the unit to your local time. If there is no battery
for quite a while or it is powered by cable for quite a while this would cause Real Time clock (RTC) malfunctioned due to no
power supply. When put on the battery to turn on the unit and the Red/Green LED take turns to blinks, this means the RTC is
malfunctioning and you must do the RTC time setting before you use the unit.
When the device is powered by battery, it would have Low Battery Detect function. When the battery goes low, the LCD
would display “ “ and you must change battery immediately ; otherwise, the unit would shut down any time without
pre-warning.
Log database memory is full. You are not able to add any new records. Free the log database memory by uploading the data
to the PC.
FMM allows you to quickly upgrade your PCR200/MFR200 internal firmware via com port and also check validity of
currently loaded firmware. Contact your dealer for most recent firmware upgrade files.
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You must use external power when the PC connect to PCR200/MFR200 by WAS-T0017 RS232 cable, or else the
communication is not action. You should press any key on PCR200/MFR200 until the communication is finished, if you don’t
use external power.
The PCR200/MFR200 allows you to manage database by software . The Logical Erase Database will logically clean the
database. The Recovery Database will recover the previous erase and not yet covered database. The record pointer will return
to the top of the database after any erase.
When PCR200/MFR200 is showing the status of any function on the screen, after presenting a RFID card to PCR200/MFR200
reader, PCR200/MFR200 is displaying card ID and record(s) information on the screen immediately. When PCR200/MFR200 is
not working for next card scan , PCR200/MFR200 reader will back to default screen automatically.
Before setting calendar function, please delete remaining records from PCR200/MFR200 reader, if there are records in the
memory of PCR200/MFR200 , your operate setting for Calendar, PCR200/MFR200 reader will display ” Record no empty”
on the screen.
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