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1. cause the SIT to emit the indicated sound through the built in speaker There is no buffering of commands which generate sounds Since these sounds can last many character times to produce a properly spaced chain of any of these sounds the host must delay short time between issuing these commands Cursor Style Underscore Cursor On ESC Underscore Cursor Off ESC G Blinking Cursor On ESC Blinking Cursor Off ESC S These commands nay be used to establish the presence and style of the cursor Key Click Control Key Click Enable ESC U Key Click Disable ESC V These commands may be used to enable and disable the audible keyclick Identify Send terminal IS ESC Z This Command causes the terminal to reply with a device identification string of the form TTI nnnn where nnnn is the four digit hexadecimal for mat checksum of the firmware in the terminal SIT Hand Held Terminal EA 098 1980 CODE Cie H Ur SOUunns sell HEH 208 D 49 Ci ED JM U l Paad Cini E 22 T Vr Bul 2 7h 1 91 10 1 Dal Jg ME 079 All other codes will be ignored SIT Hand Held Terminal ACCESSORIES The SIT is supplied with a 7ft coiled cable Connection to the SSC by the coiled cable can be done using the DB 25 Connector COILED CABLE RJ11 DB25 RS 232C WHITE 1 9 SUPPLY IN BLACK 2 6 HANDSHAKE IN RED 32. moves to the leftmost position on the next row When a character is written in the last position on the bottom row the cursor temporarily becomes invisible The next character received causes the contents of the display to be scrolled up one row and that char acter is placed in the leftmost position on the new bottom row The cursor then appears in the second column of the bottom row When visible the cursor takes the form of a blinking block with a non blinking underscore KEYPAD OPERATION The standard keypad is comprised of the uppercase alphabet digits 0 through 9 punctuation marks and symbols as well as keys for escape space backsp and enter There are five user programmable function keys Modifier keys are shift and ctrl OPERATING MODES The SIT has two operating modes One is using the main serial port which enables the user the full range of commands to the controller This is a ter minal mode where the user can program the controller and query it for current status The user can also respond to the program running in the controller For example the program prompts for velocity distance part number etc The second mode is using the auxiliary port This uses a gender changer refer to Connecting the SIT section and changes the communication parameters as stated below This mode allows the user to respond only to the program running in the controller The program prompts for velocity distance part number etc the
3. same as in terminal mode SETTABLE PARAMETERS This section discusses each of the configuration parameters in detail A summary of the parameters and their initial delivery values is shown PARAMETER PRESET OPTIONS BAUD 9600 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 DATA BITS 8 7 8 PARITY EVEN EVEN ODD MARK SPACE IGNORE DISPLAY PE ENABLED ENABLED DISABLED REPEAT ECHO DISABLED SLOW FAST DISABLED SIT Hand Held Terminal ECHO DISABLED ENABLED DISABLED HANDSHAKE ENABLED ENABLED DISABLED SELF TEST DISABLED ENABLED DISABLED be able to plug and play as terminal mode on the main port configure the parameters to the following settings PARAMETER PRESET OPTIONS BAUD 9600 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 DATA BITS 7 7 8 PARITY IGNORE EVEN ODD MARK SPACE IGNORE DISPLAY PE DISABLED ENABLED DISABLED REPEAT ECHO FAST SLOW FAST DISABLED ECHO ENABLED ENABLED DISABLED HANDSHAKE ENABLED ENABLED DISABLED SELF TEST ENABLED ENABLED DISABLED Baud The data rate used The SIT can be set to 300 600 1200 2400 4800 or 9600 BAUD Data Bits The number of bits in each character Either 7 or 8 data bits can be selected Parity When enabled an extra bit is added to each character the terminal sends This bit is used by the receiving device to perform a simple error check on incoming data The SIT can be set to transmit an even odd mark or space parity bit With any of these settings the receiver in the terminal will per form the correspo
4. 7 HANDSHAKE OUT GREEN 4 2 DATA IN YELLOW 5 3 DATA OUT BLUE 6 5 COMMON SIT Hand Held Terminal SIGNAL NAMES ASSUME AN INVERTING CABLE SUCH AS THE SUPPLIED COILED CABLE DB 25 SIGNAL DIRECTION IS RELATIVE TO TERMINAL 123456 MODULAR 6 PIN TO D TYPE 9 PIN CONNECTOR SIT Hand Held Terminal SIT DIMENSIONS TOL O MATIC Ww X i E BACKSP Y seon coun ny oad 11 i 3000 Telephone dis 78 4 tp www tolomatic c
5. Host COTTON Of The SIT adu FO 6 Host Commands P 7 CONTENTS C rsor HOME NN ias 7 E I YF FEN 7 SONAS FFF 8 CULT SOV SIG CE HYNN FARF Aa Inkl pr Mu 8 Kep Click E ddy 8 NM HM e f FN EY 8 Accessories Coiled P FF 10 Cable Adapters T E 11 SIT RU I T 12 SIT Hand Held Terminal INTRODUCTION The SIT is a hand held ASCII terminal for use with computers or computer controlled instruments and industrial machinery It features a 45 key key pad with tactile feedback and a liquid crystal alphanumeric display show ing 4 rows of 20 columns The terminal provides user selectable communi cations parameters programmable function keys and other features which make it ideal for industrial applications requiring flexibility and solid reliable operation DISPLAY OPTIONS The standard display employs a reflective twisted nematic type liquid crys tal This display is useable over a angle of approximately 45 degrees For applications which require a greater viewing angle a reflective supertwist ed nematic display is available This display is useable over a viewing angle of approximately 90 degrees A backlighted display is available for applications where the ambient light l
6. compatible with telephone lines or sig nals Connecting the SIT to a telephone line will damage the unit and will void the warranty The pinout of the connector is shown below The connector is shown from outside the terminal IN indicates an input to the terminal OUT indicates an output from the terminal 123456 RS 232C 1 SUPPLY IN 2 HANDSHAKE IN 3 HANDSHAKE OUT 4 DATA IN 5 DATA OUT 6 COMMON Caution Standard cables with modular connectors on both ends will reverse the signals NOTE For customers that will use the Aux Port on the SSC Controller to communicate with the SIT hand held operator interface the following should be noted You must have a 9 pin straight through gender changer connector i e male to male type as both hardware 9 pin connectors on SSC Aux Port and SIT are female type connectors Also pins 2 and 3 need to be switched on gender changer connector for communicating between SSC and SIT DISPLAY OPERATION The terminal screen displays the standard ASCII 96 character set consist ing of upper and lower case alphabetics numerals 0 through 9 and punc tuation characters SIT Hand Held Terminal Received characters are placed into the display at the cursor location In the absence of commands which alter the cursor location the cursor move from left to right as the characters ar received When a character is written in the last position in any of the first three rows the cursor
7. dure returns all of the parameters and the programmable function keys to the delivery configuration Any changes made to the parameters characters previously programmed into the function keys will be lost FUNCTION KEYS The five function keys work with the shift and ctrl keys to provide a total of 15 programmable keys Each key may be programmed with any single character including non printing character All programmable function key settings are stored in the SIT nonvolatile memory SIT Hand Held Terminal The table below shows the function key characters at delivery The notation Hnn indicates hexadecimal representation KEY ALONE SHIFT CTRL Fl a f F2 HI2 b g FA F5 HI5 PROGRAMMING THE FUNCTION KEYS To program a function key hold the ctrl and shift keys while pressing F2 The terminal then will display the prompt press function key to define Select which function key to program by pressing that key while holding the shift or ctrl key if appropriate The terminal will then display the cur rent programmed data for that function key Data is displayed in hexadeci mal notation with an upper case H prepended the name of the function key is selected For example sF1 indicates the shift F1 combination A menu appears in the bottom row of the display You may move on to change the data for that function key by pressing F1 or select a different function key by pressing F3 Press F5 to re
8. evel would produce the use of a reflective type display The Backlight adds approximately 100 milliamperes to the current requirement of the terminal OPERATING CONFIGURATION The SIT is readily adapted to many diverse applications due to it s user set table operating parameters and programmable function keys All setup functions performed with the help of on screen menus Access to these menus may be locked out to prevent unwanted changes Parameter settings and data for the programmable function keys are stored in the terminals built in nonvolatile memory This insures that the chosen configuration will be retained when power is removed Any time data is stored in the nonvolatile memory the message SAVING DATA appears When the terminal has finished saving data and all the keys are released the display is cleared DELIVERY CONFIGURATION Each adjustable parameter and programmable function key is assigned an initial value by Tol O Matic These values are stored in the terminals permanent memory and can be transferred to the nonvolatile memory at any time Factory Settings 9600 Baud 8 Data Bits Even Parity Display PE Enabled Repeat Fast Echo Enabled Handshake Enabled Self Test Disabled SIT Hand Held Terminal CONNECTING THE SIT A six pin modular connector is provided for all connections to the terminal Although this connector is similar to the popular modular telephone con nector the terminal is in no way
9. m A 5 74 e ELECTRIC LINEAR MOTION PRODUCTS SIT Hand Held Terminal User Manual w TOL O MATIC INC Excellence in Motion 3600 4085 02 Copyright 2003 Tol O Matic Incorporated All rights reserved Axidyne and Tol O Matic are registered trademarks of Tol O Matic Incorporated All other products or brand names are trademarks of their respective holders 4 03 20 LC CONTENTS TRUE OL TA OT FFR 1 TIES Ep iod AF CY E DDOD NN GU H 1 Operating Con uii a LOT audor ya CU pa 1 Delivef UT LO ad A FYD A dd binds 1 jor Y RE ET 1 Connecting The ME 2 IR 80771707 2 Keypad 7771175 ENNIU FYNY S 3 Hon Modes ea oo DO GRY WN 3 Settable Parameters dated 4 Data BUS FFF CND PITE 4 PTT SN YNYR Y TY WR UN FYFYR TR FF NEN EF FR 4 Display UN 4 REPEAT coos 4 TU YY 5 I vL T a Self TeSt CEFR 5 Setting Ihe Parameters aa 5 Function CVG ERYN ADN 3 Programming THE Function Keys Sod LLANYNYS 6 Locking Out The Configuration 6
10. metimes called escape sequences In the following description of escape sequences ESC is used to indicate the ASCII escape character hexadecimal 1B Any occurrence of a numeric parameter is indicated by the notation pn Escape Sequences are required to be sent to the terminal exactly as shown with no embedded blanks per mitted at any time HOST COMMANDS Cursor Movement Commands CURSOR UP ESC A CURSOR DOWN ESC B CURSOR RIGHT ESC C CURSOR LEFT ESC D In the above sequences the cursor moves one position in the indicates direction The cursor will not cause the display to scroll CURSOR POSITION ESC Y Pr Pc In the above sequence pr is the row number and pc is the column number of the target cursor location These parameters are formed by adding hexa decimal 1F to the row and column numbers Row and column numbers are absolute with row 1 column 1 Pr H20 Pc H20 representing the upper left corner of the display CURSOR HOME ESC H Note that this command is functionally equivalent to cursor Position com mand with Pr H20 and Pc H20 Erasing Clear display and Home ESC E Clear Display ESC I Cursor to of Display ESC J Cursor to End of Line ESC K Line Containing Cursor ESC SIT Hand Held Terminal Note that the erase commands include the character at the cursor location The last four do not alter the cursor position Sounds Short Bell ESC T Long Bell ESC L Click ESC Alert ESC Q These commands
11. nding check on incoming data In addition the parity option can be set to ignore Selecting the ignore still causes the transmitter to add a parity check bit to each character but the value of that bit is inde terminate Display PE When Parity is set to even odd mark or space and this option is set to enabled any character received containing a parity error is not displayed Instead a special parity error symbol is displayed as received Repeat The SIT can be set to repeat a keypad character while the key remains pressed at a slow or fast rate The slow repeat rate is approximately 10 char acters per second while the fast rate is about 18 characters per second SIT Hand Held Terminal There is a short delay between the initial character and the start of the repeat When set to disabled key repeat is disabled Echo When set to enabled characters sent by the terminal are also written to the display This enables the terminal to be used in half duplex installations When set to disabled only characters received by the terminal are dis played Handshake This setting controls the operation of the two handshake lines available in models equipped with the RS 232 interface When set to enabled the ter minal will not send characters unless the handshake input line is asserted Instead the terminal will beep to indicate that it cannot transmit Also if the terminal is temporarily unable to process incoming characters i
12. t will dessert the handshake output line Any characters sent tot the terminal ignores the state of the handshake input line and the handshake output line is always asserted Self Test When set to enabled the SIT will conduct a self test when first turned on The display is exercised and the internal RAM and ROM are checked Any errors encountered are reported on the s display In units equipped with the internal battery option this test also verifies the operation of the power saver circuitry If the power on off button is released prior to test comple tion the terminal will turn itself off at the end of the test To prevent this hold the power on off button down until the test is completed SETTING THE PARAMETERS To access the set parameters menu press F1 while holding the ctrl and shift keys The menu now appears on the lower three lines of the display The parameter selected and it s current setting are shown on the top line To move through the possible values for this parameter press F1 To move trough the list of parameters press F2 to move forward or F3 to move backward Both F4 and F5 return to terminal mode Exiting without saving the settings will leave any new settings in effect until power is removed The Terminal may be returned to the delivery configuration by applying power while simultaneously holding down the ctrl shift and F1 Keys After the saving data message has appeared the keys can be released This proce
13. turn the SIT to terminal mode leaving the function key characters unchanged In the function key programming menu labels for the programming keys occupy the bottom row of the display and the name of the function key being programmed is displayed in the top row Any valid hexadecimal digit key pressed will be entered into the function key 0 9 or A F F3isa rubout key and permits backspace editing of entries Press F1 to return to terminal ode without saving any changes In order for function key pro gramming to take effect you must save the new data in SIT s nonvolatile memory Changes to function key data are saved by pressing F5 LOCKING OUT THE CONFIGURATION MENUS For those applications in which access to the settable parameters and func tion keys features is undesirable the SIT provides a menu lockout feature To disable access to these features hold the ctrl shift and F5 keys and apply power to the terminal After the saving Data message has appeared the keys can be released The lockout state is stored in the built in nonvolatile memory to regain access to the menus repeat this proce dure On delivery accessto both menusis enabled SIT Hand Held Terminal HOST CONTROL OF THE SIT The SIT has been designed to allow it to be controlled by the device to which it is connected referred to in this manual as th host By sending the terminal special character sequences begin with the ASCII escape charac ter they are so
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