Tyco Electronics 15A2 15" LCD Multifuntion Touchcomputer User Manual

Elo TouchSystems  15A2  User Guide     49

The MSR is a USB 1.1 device which reads all three data stripes on standard credit cards

or driver’s licenses conforming to ISO/ANSI standards.  The MSR has foreign language

capability.  The credit card is read by sliding the credit card through the MSR, stripe side

toward the display, forward or backward.  The MSR is powered from the USB port; no

external power is needed.  The specifications are:

• Power source: from USB port

• Message format: ASCII

• Card speed: 3 to 50 IPS

• Electronics MTBF: 125,000 hours

• Mechanical MTBF: 1,000,000 passes

• Operating current: 30 mA maximum

• Non-operating current: 300u maximum

The Customer Display is a twenty character two line vacuum fluorescent display (VFD).

It consists of a VFD and VFD controller.

Characters per row

20

Number of rows

2

Character configuration

5x7 dot matrix

Character Height

9.5mm

Character width

6.2mm

Character configuration

ASCII

Character color

Blue green

MTBF

300,000 hours