User's Manual

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8700 Series Mobile Computer Reference Manual
1.7 CHARGING & COMMUNICATIONS
Normally the mobile computer ships with a USB cable for charging and communi cations.
A variety of cradles are also developed and made available to you to meet your needs.
USB Interface Cable
Task USB Cable
Charging USB direct charging
 500 mA: USB icon
 0 mA: Disable charging for 8700
5 V charging from the adapter (Plug icon)
Communications USB Virtual COM — If you have FORG E Application Generator instal led on
your PC, you may use a download ut ility to receive data from your PC; or
you can run HyperTerminal.exe to receive data directly.
USB HID — Run a text editor on your PC to receive data directly.
USB Virtual COM_CDC —If you have FORGE Application Generator installed
on your PC, you may use a download utility to receive data fro m your PC;
or you can run HyperTerminal.exe to receive data directly.
Note: (1) If you are u sing USB Virt ual COM for the first time, you must install its driver
from t he CD -ROM. Driver v ersion 5. 3 or lat er is requ ired. P lease remov e old er
versions! The virtual COM port will not be assigned until the USB port is in use.
(2) If y ou are u sing USB Virt ual C OM_CDC for t he first t ime, y ou mu st in stall it s
driver from the CD-ROM. USB CDC driver installer can be f ound in the “Windows”
folder. It will proceed to install the driver to your PC.
(3) A standard USB cabl e releases a COM por t in the fol lowing conditions: (i) the
cable is det ached from t he mobil e compu ter direct ly, (ii) t he cable is det ached
from t he cradle direct ly, (iii) t he cable is at tached t o t he cradle, bu t the mobi le
computer is removed from the cradle, (iv) the mobile computer is powered off, (v)
no application that requires a virtual COM port is running on the mobile computer.
(4) For an application program that requir es a COM port to be oc cupied all t he
time, it is suggested that you use a 308 USB Virtual COM Interface cable instead.