Hi Jerry,
OK. When Willard first mentioned speed, as in go faster, as a potential
issue, I was skeptical, but now it's starting to sound reasonable :).
But, now I wanna try the oscilloscope ( I love any excuse to get my
Rigol and/or Salae out). So, tell me, how did you hook up stuff? Did you
just put the scope in between wand and m100 for power and then monitor
the other talking pins, or did you just apply power to the wand via
another power supply and monitor the talking pins without the m100 being
involved, or what?
Thanks,
Will
On 11/1/22 12:43 PM, Jerry Davis wrote:
I have the barcode reader and software. When I first started using it
I had the exact same problem you did. None of the drivers and demo
applications seemed to work. The wand LED is very dim on mine. The
first thing I did was print out some barcodes from a Google search.
There are some websites that will create a barcode from data you enter
on a web page. I attached an oscilloscope to the wand and saw that it
actually does a great job of detecting light and dark
transitions regardless of background illumination. I decided to
accept that the software and hardware are working and find out if the
problem was the way I was using the wand. As William suggested in his
response, I had to practice a bit to find the correct speed. It's
almost a "flick of the wrist" for me. After I got the hang of it, I
was able to make the demonstration software beep almost every time.
All of the bar codes and drivers worked for me once I figured out how
to use the wand.
Jerry
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:19 PM Will Senn <[email protected]> wrote:
So, I bought a BCR on Ebay, unboxed it and hooked it up. Loaded
the driver, and the basic program to do the scans. But, when I
scanned, the light came on, but no joy on beep or numbers. It's a
pretty dim light... Any ideas to troubleshoot/fix? Supposedly, the
only user serviceable component is the cap and that's fine. That
dim light is concerning - were they usually a pretty bright light
or were they always dim?
Regards,
Will
