Specifications

C•CURE apC/L Technical Manual
Overview
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Card Readers
A card reader is made up of a read head or reader electronics and a small
circuit board, called a personality board or module.TheapC/Lusesthe
RM series personality module.
The RM module is approximately 4.5” x 3.5” (11.8 by 9 cm) and can be
installed in the reader housing or in a 6” x 4” (minimum) junction box.
Electronics for accepting either the magnetic stripe or Wiegand reader
technologies are located on the RM series personality module.
RM Series Readers
The RM series readers incorporate either magnetic stripe, Wiegand, or
proximity read head technology into the same polycarbonate all-weather
housing. Two types of proximity read heads are available as well as a
magnetic stripe (only one type of magnetic stripe is available) and a
Wiegand read head to cover any type of application.
Each reader is configured with a six position DIP switch. A 0-F rotary
switch defines the address and an onboard tamper switch protects the
electronics. See “Setting the apC/L Switches” on page 6-4 for a complete
description.
A 2-line, 16 character per line, backlit display is offered as an option with
the RM2 series (reader with keypad). Each reader provides two class A
supervised inputs on the personality module and two logic driven relay
outputs for use by ARM-1s (#131-912).
See “Setting Up a Reader” on page 4-9 for further information.
Magnetic Stripe Readers
The magnetic stripe reader is enclosed in an all weather housing with a
slot through which a magnetically coded card is passed, or “swiped.” The
RM-4 personality module decodes the data on the card and transmits it to
the apC/L for processing.
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