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1/800/221-7060 U.S.A. and Canada

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P/N 99760-0010 Rev.E © Jan. 2006 STI

Scientific Technologies Inc.

Optical Sensor Division

Manufacturing and Sales Office

6550 Dumbarton Circle

Fremont, CA 94555-3611

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www.stiscanners.com

Vehicle Scanner

VS6400 Series

Installation and Operating Manual

Summary of Contents for VS6400 Series

Page 1: ...60 0010 Rev E Jan 2006 STI Scientific Technologies Inc Optical Sensor Division Manufacturing and Sales Office 6550 Dumbarton Circle Fremont CA 94555 3611 1 888 510 4357 Phone 510 608 3400 Fax 510 744 1442 www stiscanners com Vehicle Scanner VS6400 Series Installation and Operating Manual ...

Page 2: ...SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGIES INC 31069GenstarRoad HaywardCA94544USA R ...

Page 3: ...tion and Connections 3 Section 3 Setup Software 5 Section 4 General Setup Commands 6 Section 5 Relay Outputs 6 Section 6 Serial Output 8 Section 7 Array Modifying Commands 14 Section 8 Specifications 16 Section 9 ASCII Terminal Emulators 18 Section 10 Dimensional Drawings 19 Table of Content ...

Page 4: ... liable for any damage due to improper engineering or installation by the purchaser or third parties Proper installation operation and maintenance of the product becomes the responsibility of the user upon receipt of the product PATENTS Elements of the electronics and optics essential to meet the specifications and performance standards of STI controls are covered by one or more of the following U...

Page 5: ... qualified personnel MOUNTING THE TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER Mount the transmitter and receiver parallel to each other with no vertical nor horizontal offset and with their connectors pointing in the same direction See Section 10 for mounting dimensions TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER CABLES Connect the scanner as shown in the diagram RS 485 connections are optional Conncect the shield on both the transmit...

Page 6: ...Com RS485 Communication Link Table 1 Cable Identification by Pin Assignment VS6400 Cable Identification Pin No Color Code Function Description Power 2 Brown VDC 24VDC 7 Blue 0 VDC Ground Scanner Transmitter Receiver Synchronization 6 Pink Sync Synchronization Link 1 White Sync Synchronization Link Control Outputs 5 Gray Output 1 Control Output 4 Yellow Output 2 Alarm Output Serial Communication 8 ...

Page 7: ... the lower left corner of the window Be sure you have 19 200 baud rate selected Then click on OK Note that none of the other selection boxes function when used with the VS6400 You must make changes in the terminal window To access the terminal window click on Terminal in the menu Click on the box Add Linefeed If the display prints with double line spacing you can de select Add Linefeed ENTERING SE...

Page 8: ...he scanner for the current setting The scanner returns the current mode set either NO or NC Example RELAYOUT1 NC sets relay 1 output to normally closed Relay 1 Output Detection Hysteresis Mode This mode allows separate settings for turn on size and turn off size and is normally used for detecting vehicles Syntax RELAY HIST x y where x is the turn on size and y is the turn off size Example RELAY HI...

Page 9: ... that the user needs to fill in For example DIAGS x would indicate to type DIAGS followed by a space followed by a number say DIAGS 100 There are two versions of commands used for this function a simplified and a complex set SIMPLIFIED COMMAND Command Format DIAGS x where x is a number representing the length of time in seconds the beam s must be blocked before the scanner will ignore it Using thi...

Page 10: ...l emulators The data transmitted are the ASCII codes for the hexadecimal characters Each ASCII character requires one byte All values are reported in hexadecimal Example An object blocks ten beams In the ASCII SIZE mode the scanner sends the ASCII code for the character A The ASCII code number is 6510 or 4116 ASCII NULL Mode ASCII NULL Mode turns off serial data reports Syntax ASCII NULL Data form...

Page 11: ...hexadecimal space 0008 0002 space 0012 0002 carriage return line feed Interpretation two objects detected the 9th beam is the first beam blocked by the first object the first object blocks two beams the 19th beam is the first beam blocked by the second object the second object blocks 2 beams the carriage return and line feed delimit the report ASCII SIZE Mode ASCII SIZE Mode gives the size of the ...

Page 12: ...o show a blocked beam There are no delimiters BINARY PSIZE Mode BINARY PSIZE Mode gives the position and size of the largest object detected Syntax BINARY PSIZE Data Format Report is two bytes giving the position and size of the largest object detected First byte is the position the beam blocked closest to cable Position starts counting beams from zero The second byte is the size the number of bea...

Page 13: ...Report gives a variable number of pairs of bytes one byte for each object detected followed by one byte of value 0016 If no object is detected only one byte is given of value 0016 In each pair of bytes the first byte is the position beam closest to the cable blocked by the object and the second byte is the number of beams blocked by the object Beam position numbering starts at one for the beam clo...

Page 14: ...ncluded just 3 consecutive data bytes Syntax BINARY LBB FBB NOBJ Note This command is not available on the Windows Software check off boxes Use the Terminal Window to enter this command See Section 4 Windows Software for details SERIAL TIMING COMMANDS If you are using the serial reports you must set a timing command The scanner has two serial timing modes synchronous timing and software trigger If...

Page 15: ...e and disable the function and one to set the time interval for these reports Syntax HBENA Y turns on this mode HBENA N turns off this mode Syntax HBTIME n where n is the time interval in seconds between heartbeat reports SOFTWARE DEMAND MODE This function provides serial reports on demand using a software demand request Ctl E is the request for a report Syntax DMD sets the scanner to software tri...

Page 16: ... interprets and reports them This is commonly used to invert the status of the beams to report holes in a material or to ignore specific beams that are blocked by a stationary object Two commands are used for masking one sets a mask pattern and the other defines masking logic The scanner always uses masking The default settings however result in the real beam status SETMSK SETMSK set mask is used ...

Page 17: ...c causes the scanner to report beams that are actually blocked or shown as blocked in the mask pattern AND logic only reports blocked beams when the same beams are blocked in the mask pattern This can be used to turn off specific beams blocked by a permanent obstruction EXCLUSIVE OR logic inverts the status of any beam shown as blocked in the mask pattern and show the true status of beams shown as...

Page 18: ...transmitter and receiver Operating Range 20 m 66 ft with a gain margin of 2 Beam spacing 22 or 43 mm Misalignment Allowed 4 degrees Scan Lengths Scan Times Relay Hyteresisis Scan Time Response Time Scan Length No of Beams Normal Double Normal Double 22mm 0 85 in Beam Spacing 524 mm 20 6 in 24 1 4 2 8 4 2 8 4 698 mm 27 5 in 32 1 9 3 8 5 7 11 4 872 mm 34 3 in 40 2 4 4 8 7 2 14 4 1046 mm 41 2 in 48 2...

Page 19: ...dual Beam Indicators illuminate to indicate which beams are blocked Construction Painted aluminum housing plastic window ENVIRONMENTAL RATINGS Ambient Light Immunity Up to 40 000 lux outside of 5 degree angle of incidence upon the receiver Operating Temperature Range 40 to 70 C 40 to 158 F Sealing IP65 Vibration Per IEC 60068 2 6 0 to 55 Hz at 1 octave minute 0 35mm amplitude 3 axes Bump Shock Per...

Page 20: ...he following setup parameters in the emulator Terminal type ANSI or ASCII Inbound CR LF Translate CR to CR and LF Function Arrow and Control Keys Set for terminal use not used for Windows Line wrap allowed Baud Rate as set on the scanner Data format 8 data bits 1 start bit no parity bits N 8 1 Com Port Set to the port the scanner is connected to Hardware Flow Control Off Software Flow Control Off ...

Page 21: ... 8 2175 85 6 System Shipping Weight kg lb 9 5 21 10 0 22 11 4 23 10 9 24 11 8 28 Section 10 Dimensional Drawings A DETECTION ZONE 20 63 524 0 SHOWN B MTG 23 35 593 1 SHOWN 2 80 71 1 1 75 44 5 3 50 88 9 2 79 70 7 1 57 39 9 0 55 14 0 BOTH ENDS 1 15 29 2 C 24 45 621 0 SHOWN 40 4 1 59 O D DIA 14 2 58 28 7 0 C L L C 1 80 45 7 1 38 35 0 2 12 53 8 1 25 31 8 0 66 16 6 Vehicle Scanner VS6400 FRONT VIEW SID...

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