User's Manual

XCRF-860 USER’S MANUAL
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The 4 SMA ports for coaxial cable are on the back panel of
XCRF-860 reader for connecting the reader to external
antennas. Low-loss RF cable is used as the connection cable.
Tightened connections are required among cable, antenna and
the reader.
2. Installing External Antennas
The external antennas of XCRF-860 readers are usually
installed outdoors. The beam coverage is the effective range of
reading and writing electronic tags by the system.
The external antennas can be installed in a horizontal
top-mounting way (the gantry of a vehicle channel) or a vertical
side-mounting way (pillar mounted). Adjust the antennas’
positioning (inclination or rotation) to achieve the optimum
position through read/write test.
Antennas of various specifications can be configured to
XCRF-860 reader according to application requirements.
Linear polarized antennas are recommended for XCRF-860
reader (to eliminate the decrease of antenna gain).
During on-site
installation, polarization matching of the reader’s antennas and
the electronic tags’ antennas should be considered; neglecting
this factor results in the affected reader’s read/write distance to
the electronic tags.
3. Connecting to PC
XCRF-860 reader offers RS-232 serial port, USB port, and
Ethernet port.