Contents. NT-9800 Wireless Laser Barcode Collector. Manual. I. Product Description. Ⅲ.Operation Details. Ⅱ. Using. 1. Functional characteristics

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1 NT-9800 Wireless Laser Barcode Collector Contents Manual I. Product Description 1. Functional characteristics 2. Technical parameter 3. Appearance & Accessories 4. Application Ⅱ. Using 1. Battery and Charging 2. Power on and power off 3. Keyboard Using 4. USB Wireless base stations 5. Abnormal conditions and reset Ⅲ.Operation Details 1. Wireless scanner mode (Real-time transmission model) 2. Barcode collecting mode (Batch scan and bulk transmission) 3. Inventory mode NT-9800 Wireless Barcode Collector = Wireless Laser Barcode Scanner + Simple Wireless Data Collector 4. System Configuration 5. Charging NT / 18 NT / 18

2 I. Product Description 1, Function Characteristic Welcome to use NT-9800 which is a new generation wireless barcode scanning product. NT-9800 wireless barcode collector is an unique wireless barcode scanning product in the market which combines the function of wireless barcode scanner and simple wireless barcode data collector, user can use this product without any programming. NT-9800 Products have keyboard and screen, can achieve the functions wireless barcode scanners can't do such as when barcodes are damaged, you can input by using the keyb board; it can display the current radio channel, wireless signal strength and battery level, etc. Wireless base stations communicate using USB Port. It can be used in WINDOWS without any driver. Users can also select the USB serial COM Port mode or hardware serial port mode Custom hardware for specific application. Wireless frequency used by NT-9800 wireless barcode collector is 433M two-way communication, the wireless signal strength displayed on LCD screen. Maximum 32 radio channels supported that is 32 groups of NT-9800 wireless barcode collectors can be used at the same time and will not interfere with each other simultaneously; each channel can support up to 255 devices in practice the same channel may conflict, equipments used at the same channel at one time, preferably should be no more than 5. In the case of obstruction free the transmission distance can generally be m in the occasion of interference or the need to cross several large walls the wireless communication distance may be considerably shortened. NT-9800 wireless barcode collector did not use Bluetooth because Bluetooth transmission distance is very short, usually not more than 10 meters and Bluetooth use 2.4G ultra hi frequency radio waves whose ability of passing through barriers is much weaker than 433M while matching the PC Bluetooth devices need to install the driver before use the operation is more complex. NT-9800 wireless barcode collector uses the laser barcode scanning engine which increase the scanning speed and enlarge the depth of focus to meet the needs of most industries. Most of the laser scanner on the current market still use 8-bit microcontroller to complete the decodification, but NT-9800 use 32-bit ARM CPU to achieve decodificaiton which is more than ten times faster and more accurately. NT-9800 Wireless barcode collector has a simple barcoe data collecting function. Support offline batch scan mode Can scan and save maximum 100,000 barcode data. After collection the user can wireless)y bulk transmitted barcode to a centralized computer. For many simple barcode collection applications, you can directly replace the original expensive and 2. Technical Parameter l ) 32-bit high-speed ARM series CPU 2) FLASH memory 2MB, 1.8MB for user's data space 3) Power supply: two AA batteries (recommended mah of NiMH rechargeable battery), support USB Port charging. 4) Display: 128x128 FSTN LCD screen, support 10 row 10 line character display, with bright back light. 5) Size: 165 x 65 x 45 mm, about 200 grams 6) 26 high-quality silicone keyboard key 7) Over a half year (according to the remaining battery); with a lower consumption than most similar products in the market complicated data collection terminal, to reduce the user's procurement and 8) Continuous work hours: hrs, one times/ per ten second averagely. use cost greatly. 9) Completely turned off on-site protection you can always switch on and off, also NT / 18 NT / 18

3 supports automatically}, shut down. 10) Barcode scanning mode: 650nm laser Scan Depth :3-35cm(with 13mil EAN13 barcode) Scan the barcode width: 30cm or less Reading barcode types: EAN13, EAN8, 39 code, 93 code. 128 code, interleave 25 codes (IT25), codebar (Code bar), UPCA, UPCE etc. 11) Wireless communications use 433M dedication wireless data transmission chip, data transmission with high reliability. Wireless frequency: 433M, two-way communication, two-way data transmission verification Maximum wireless Transmit Power: +10 db Wireless receiving sensitivity:- 102dB Wireless Channel: 32 Number of devices per channel: Appearance & Accessories NT-9800 wireless barcode collection terminal contains handheld terminal and wireless base station. Wireless signal strength indicator Wireless communication use CRC check, to ensure the accuracy of the wireless transmission of data. 12) Wireless base stations, paired with hand-held terminal. A base station utility, recommended maximum five hand-held terminals. Wireless base stations using USB port, USB keyboard or USB emulation mode serial mode, to access WINDOWS without drives. For special applications, wireless base stations can also provide hardware serial port to connect with the device. Hardware-based serial port wireless base station can communicate with the non-pc devices, can. also be applied to some specific requirement, such as to prevent the occasions of Handheld terminal Wireless base station illegal importation. Default serial communication configuration of hardware serial wireless base station as follows 9600 baud rate; 8 data bits; 1 stop bit; No parity. NT / 18 NT / 18

4 4. Application II. Using NT-9800 Wireless barcode collector can completely replace the traditional wireless scanning guns In fact it is a better wireless scanning gun, just appearance differs from traditional wireless scanning guns. NT-9800 wireless barcode collector is particularly suitable for logistics, large warehouse and barcode scanning of bulky items. At the same time its keyboard and screen provides functions wireless barcode scanner can not achieve such as manual input barcode scan and read the barcode the wireless signal strength monitoring, battery level monitoring. Wireless transmission distance of NT-9800 wireless barcode collector range up to meters indoors it can also serve as a data collector in small supermarket small bookstores and small warehouse. NT-9800 Wireless Barcode Collector is not only a wireless barcode scanner, it also has simple barcode capture and storage capabilities a built-in FLASH memory can store up to 30,000 barcodes data the collection for the barcode of office equipment, clothing inventory, receiving and shipping inventory, and other similar applications is also very suitable. Through wireless bulk transmission, bulk collection can be automatically transferred to the Excel sheet can also be sent to a text file so that the collected data can be upload to management software. NT-9800 wireless barcode collector also supports simple inventory, can support up to 30,000 kinds of goods inventory. 1. Battery and charging NT-9800 Wireless Barcode collector use two AA batteries, you can either use dry batteries or rechargeable batteries. Please try to use the alkaline battery for disposable battery, if ordinary batteries stay a long time for no using, thus it will be prone to leak out the solution which can result cells and board corrosion. Recommend the use of NiMH rechargeable batteries which capacity is generally in the rAH to ensure the operation of the handset for a long time. NT-9800 wireless barcode collector comes with the function of recharge, you can charge the NiMH battery through the USB Port at the bottom of the handset. Charging voltage is 5V, you can use the computer's USB port for charging, or use an external 5V Power supply. The handset will monitor the charging status automatically. Fully charged then automatic shutdown. The general time to charge a pair of 2000mAH NiMH rechargeable battery is hours. Note: only the rechargeable battery can be charged, it is unsafe to charge the disposable battery. Long time no using equipment, please take the battery out otherwise will cause the battery leak a liquid and damage the PCB-board.). 2. Turn-on & off Put on the battery, the handset can be turned on and goes to the main menu. The middle red button at the bottom is the power button, for switching on & off. Turn off the handset the handset retains the current state. Rebooting it will be stayed at the state before shutdown. NT / 18 NT / 18

5 3. Using keyboard Handset totally holds 26 buttons, divided into 3 Parts: 1 On the left top row button is often used as the OK button, the right top key often as the cancel button; on the middle the yellow button is scan key; the down row is ESC and ENT,and ENT is enter key, also called OK button. The other is and arrow keys, left and right key can also use as F5,F6 keys 2 Row 4-7 are the number keys and the Background-light key, after switching the input method, these keys can also be used to input letters. 3 The last row are function key F1 - F4 and Power. 4. USB wireless base station Wireless base stations can be used after pairing with the corresponding use of handset. The handset and wireless base stations have been set paired by the factory, and can be used directly. Matching method is described in detail in a later ( three operation) 5. Anomalies and Reset When no response always encountered from the handset keypad, the handset crash happened by some uncertain reasons then there are two solutions: Clicking the reset bottom of the shell hole with the reset pin, the handset will be forced to reset Take out the battery for 10 seconds before loading. Wait 10 seconds for the handset to make sure the internal fully discharged. USB wireless base station is a PC-side device of the barcode scanner, for receiving the barcode data which send by the handset, and sending the barcode data to the PC through the USB Port. USB wireless base station is USB Plug and play device, the emulation keyboard mode do not need to install any driver. After USB connected, the LED light on the base panel will flash If the wireless base station's indicator is not flashing, it could be a bad contact or other USB Problems, then just unplug the PC side USB connector back into the USB Port or for a re-inserted. III. Operation Details that means the wireless base station is working properly. By observing the LED blink, you can determine the current state of wireless communications, which combines some detail in the back of the handset functions. Each wireless base station has a radio channel number also called wireless channel number while using different wireless base stations at the same time must ensure that the wireless channels are different. NT / 18 Following will combine the Handset operate interface to describe the using of NT-9800 wireless barcode Collector. Right picture shows the main interface after boot. The top of the column is the status bar, CH1 means wireless channel number is 1 CH32 shows radio channel number is 32; shows the wireless signal strength, the greater the distance the lower the wireless signal strength. no signal means communication is not connected. NT-9800 NT / 18

6 handhelds contact the wireless base stations every 2 seconds; the right is battery Power. To determine the state of wireless communications: After the base station connect with power, the first 2 seconds the light lf flashes quickly and consecutively, indicating the wireless base station is searching the configured requested; if not, wireless base station will enter the normal communications state if yes, you will enter the configuration state. There are two cases normal communication state, when there is no contact between handset and wireless base station the indicator light flashes for 0.5 seconds every 3 seconds, indicator light for a long time; if there is contact on the handset and wireless base station, the indicator light flashes for 0.1 seconds every 2 seconds indicator light for a short time, it is easy to distinguish whether the situation connected or not. If the indicator does not light, it may not plug in USB or wireless base station has failed. Below the status bar is the menu, a total of 5 projects. Menu selection mode directly can enter from digital 1 5, or use the arrow keys Up Next to scroll the current item, press M1 key to enter the menu. 1. Wireless scanner mode Wireless scanner mode function is the same as traditional wireless scanner, which can scan the barcode and immediately transfer to the computer. Right picture shows the interface into the feature. Blow the status bar, it displayed the scanned barcode. the maximum allowable value to display is 2 lines of 40 characters. At the left of the top status bar is T: xx xx means the scanned number. The uncertainty of wireless communication in the case of occasional break communications, NT-9800 wireless barcode scanner still collect the barcode and automatically cached a maximum of about 200 barcode can be cached. The specific number depends on barcode length. When communication is restored NT-9800 will automatically send the cached barcode to the base station. The number of barcodes that wait to send means the number of those haven t be sent successfully and stored in the temporary buffer. In practice, the defaced or non-stander print barcode and other non-standard variety of reasons, often can not be recognized. At this time wireless scanner can't do anything. NT-9800 Wireless barcode collector with a keyboard and screen logger allows to enter barcode manually. Press F1 to enter the manual state or enter number keys directly also can enter the input state. There are three kinds of manual input mode: numbers lowercase letters, uppercase letters. The input mode shows at the upper left corner in the status bar. 123 means digital mode abc stands for lower case mode ABC said the uppercase mode. Press F4 key to switch during the three input mode. Input error can press M2 (delete key) to delete. End of input, press the M1 or ENT key to confirm. Press ESC to cancel. 2. Barcode Collect Mode This model is a non-real-time transfer mode, and close to the traditional inventory which send the barcode after the end of mass collection, just wireless way only. For the purpose of saving power, during scanning the barcode time the wireless communication temporarily suspend, wireless signal strength is NT / 18 NT

7 no longer displayed. All of the scanned barcode are stored in scan order in FLASH memory, even power-down will not cause data loss. Above picture shows the batch mode interface. Scanned barcode number shows the total number of barcode currently saved. Manual input is the same way as wireless scanner mode above. Batch mode is suitable for applications require wide scan range and a big number of barcodes. Many applications do not require the actual real-time barcode data transmission, all scanning is complete, once again send all the wireless barcode data to the computer. Pressing ENT will enter the barcode collector mode's sub menu, go into this interface wireless communications will be restored if there is not wireless signal, data will not be able to send to the computer. The way barcode collect mode send data to the computer is the same as wireless scanner mode just the former is automatic after sending a barcode, it will automatically wrap. 1. Transmit feature Before entering into Please prepare receive procedures on your computer. Common procedure to receive is EXCEL and Notepad. Right picture shows the sending interface of barcode capture mode. 2. Clear all data is to empty all of saving barcode data. After bulk upload it does not automatically cleared. Therefore, if the upload is successful and do not need to save the barcode data, please use the clear command. 3. Delete last is to delete the last record of scanned barcode. 4. Interval time is to set sending interval. Wireless transmission time interval of the barcode can be modified to suit the needs of some NT applications. If you enter 9999, it means pressing the key each time will send a barcode so that the entire upload process is complete access to manual control. 5. Deal same barcode is to set the repeated barcode mode. which used to set the processing mode when scanning the repetitive code. (1). Do not handle duplicate Barcode (2). when encounter repeated barcde, it will prompt to save or skip (3). Prohibiting to scan repeat barcode, unconditionally filtering. 6. Set end char is to set the end of transmission character. The Enter key is set as the end of transmission character by default. Users can modify the end mark generating after the code during transmission. 3. Inventory mode Inventory mode is a simple inventory mode, only barcode and number, without the item name. a maximum of saving is 30,000 records barcode. Inventory mode main menu as follow: to select or press keys to select, press ENT button to confirm. 1. Inventory Scanning barcode automatically add the number or manually input the number, after scanning one barcode, the corresponding number of barcode will plus one, or you can press F4 to change the number of input manually. When scanning the barcode can not be successful, you can press F 1 to enter the barcode manually. NT / 18

8 2. browse inventory On the screen line, there displays record number, barcode and barcode number. If (Record number + barcode + barcode number display longer than one line the last several barcodes will be replaced with '...', at the bottom line: 1/105, record number is 105x3=1365. F4: Jump: Press F4 to enter the record number, also can jump to the page where the record number of location. Press: Previous page, next page press: first page last page 3. Data export: Import data to a txt file. Please connect the base station to PC and open the txt file. Put the input cursor in the text when the handsets and base stations can communicate handset enters into the sending state. Set the separator: The middle separator means the separator between the barcode and numbers. Default is a comma, you can select the frequently used delimiter or enter the ASCII value of delimiter. Common delimiter options: Commonly used separator character, comma, space, TAB, Press the 1-4 keys to select the separator, when selected mark will appear, press the backspace key to cancel the selection, press the ENT key to confirm the selection and Save the selected delimiter character. Enter the separator(ascii)code Set the ending separator: set the ending symbols of each row, the default is Return its setting is the same as that of the middle separating character. NT /18 When exporting data and quantity, users could set the export separator, delimiter of exporting can also be set, if there is no necessary separator in the separator selective entry, you can enter the separator (ASCII value). We can conclude that the ASCII value of characters is between 32 to Clean data: Clear all of the inventory data, make sure to empty the original inventory of stored data. 5. Query inventory: By scanning the barcode or entering the barcode check whether it has been made an inventory, if yes, then display the inventory number. Otherwise, point out this barcode hasn't be made of inventory and display the message. 4. System Configuration System configuration includes Barcoe type configuration, parameters configuration of wireless transmission display contrast settings and check device serial number. System Configuration menu. Right is the 1. Barcode Setting: set the barcode identification. Barcode set is used to set barcode types that need to be supported by NT-9800 terminal. Barcode types are fixed in many industries to the scanner, the less the type need to be decoded the faster decoding speed will be accuracy is also higher. Right picture shows settings interface of the barcode type recogn iti on The bar type with * indicates that the type of decoding is activated, you can identify; without * means decoding of the barcode type is prohibited, NT /18

9 As the picture shows, there is no * before Code93 and postal code indicates that these 2 codes can't be decoded by NT-9800 terminal. Press the corresponding number key to switch to decode /not decode. After setting, press ENT key to save and exit. 2. Wireless Setting: Wireless Configuration includes setting machine address and wireless communication channels and radio channel and wireless base station configuration. The machine address ranges from using the same channel at the same time The machine address can not be the same will cause confusion transceiver. Value of wireless channels range from l to 99 (the best value should be within 32) different wireless communications channels means that the frequency is different, multiple wireless channels machines at the same place can be used at the same time and doesn't disturb each other. information is saved to base station. there is no need to match base station later. Only modifying the channel of handsets is required. Set the base station transmission mode: there are 3 transmission mode rfom PC to base station. USB keyboard mode, USB emulation serial port mode and RS232serial Port(hardware serial Port)mode. The default mode is the USB keyboard. USB emulation serial port mode and RS232serial port (hardware serial port) mode are used for special software and equipments, and also suitable for two-way data transfer occasions. 3. Display Contrast Setting: If you are not satisfied with the default LCD display contrast, use this setting to modify the display contrast. Press the arrow keys to increase and decrease contrast. Handsets and wireless base stations must be paired before use. Matching 5. principle is: one wireless base station can support multiple handsets but the machine address of handsets can not be the same the same channel can only have one wireless base station. Charging If you are using rechargeable batteries, such as nickel hydride or nickel cadmium, you can charge the rechargeable batteries through the internal charging circuit of Pairing method of wireless base stations and handsets: a. Disconnect the base station b. Set the address and channel on handheld terminal. c. Enter 3. Match Base station interface. d. Access the wireless base station, under normal circumstances tips that the base station have been found will appear on the screen. Then press the ENT key match wireless base stations and handsets. After pairing, the configuration handsets. Users can use USB to charge directly, you can also use an ordinary 5V Power supply plus USB A type Plug to charge the battery. Internal charging circuit will automatically cut off power supply if fully charged. The right picture is charging interface. NT / 18 NT / 18