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Chapter 16: Powering the TriCoder ....................................................................................................................................................... 93
Turning the TriCoder ON and OFF ................................................................................................................................................. 93
Battery Power and Wall Power ........................................................................................................................................................ 93
To change the Li-ion battery: ........................................................................................................................................................... 94
Storing the TriCoder ......................................................................................................................................................................... 94
Chapter 17: Firmware Upgrades ............................................................................................................................................................ 95
Failsafe Firmware Update ................................................................................................................................................................. 98
Appendix A: How to scan a bar code ..................................................................................................................................................... 99
Appendix B: Laser Scanner Options .................................................................................................................................................... 100
Special Laser Settings .................................................................................................................................................................... 100
Appendix C: Cable Pin-outs ................................................................................................................................................................. 101
Appendix D: Optional Features ............................................................................................................................................................ 103
Appendix E: USB Driver Installation Recovery .................................................................................................................................. 104
Resolving incomplete, aborted, or incorrect FULL SPEED driver installation ......................................................................... 104
Manually Updating TriCoder High Speed USB Driver on Windows 7, Vista, & XP ................................................................... 104
Manually Updating TriCoder High Speed USB Driver on Windows 2000 ................................................................................... 104
Manually Updating Tricoder USB Driver on Windows 98/Me ..................................................................................................... 105
Resolving incomplete, aborted or incorrect HID driver installation ........................................................................................... 106
Windows 7, Vista & XP: ............................................................................................................................................................... 106
Win98/ME: .................................................................................................................................................................................... 106
Win2000: ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 106
Appendix F: Specifications for Code 39............................................................................................................................................... 107
Code 39 Advanced Features and Functions ................................................................................................................................... 108
Special key sequences for USB ..................................................................................................................................................... 111
Appendix G: Code 128 Specifications .................................................................................................................................................. 114
Appendix H: Interleaved 2 of 5 Code ................................................................................................................................................... 115
Appendix I: UPC Specifications ........................................................................................................................................................... 116
ISBN Specifications ....................................................................................................................................................................... 116
The UPC/EAN checksum character ............................................................................................................................................... 117
Checksum calculation for UPC-A, EAN-13 and EAN-8 ............................................................................................................... 117
UPC-E Checksum Calculation ....................................................................................................................................................... 118
Appendix J: Codabar Specifications .................................................................................................................................................... 119
Codabar start/stop transmission ..................................................................................................................................................... 119
Appendix K: MSI/Plessey Specifications ............................................................................................................................................. 120
The MSI Mod 10 check digit is calculated as follows: .................................................................................................................. 120
The MSI Mod 11 check digit is calculated as follows: .................................................................................................................. 120
Appendix L: Code 93 Specifications ..................................................................................................................................................... 121
Appendix M: ASCII Code Equivalent Table ........................................................................................................................................ 122
Appendix N: RS-422 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 123
TriCoder Coding Form_____________________________________________________________________________________ 124 Full Ascii Menu__________________________________________________________________________________________ 125
REVISION 7-2010
