Intel J2 650 Personal Computer User Manual


 
650 System Manual (Draft)
Version 0.4 August 20, 2008
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Cash Drawer Ports
The 650 is equipped standard with two Cash Drawer ports. These ports are located in the
cable well and use the industry standard RJ-11 connector and pin out (illustrated below).
Cash Drawer Ports
Cash Drawer Pin Assignment
The application may address the Cash Drawer port in a number of ways. They are:
1) Using the J2 supplied OPOS drivers for Vista, XP, WEPOS and XP Embedded.
2) Using the J2 supplied Virtual COM port for CE.NET, XP, WEPOS and XPe.
3) Direct access to the I/O port that controls the firing of the cash drawer and the I/O port
for reading the drawer status.
The Virtual COM port driver is standard on Windows CE.NET and the cash drawer
appears as COM5.
To open Cash Drawer One: Send a bell character to the COM5 serial port. (The bell
character is the ASCII 07 hex character “Control G.”)
To open Cash Drawer Two: Send an ESC character, then a bell character to the COM5
serial port. The open/close status of the drawer may be obtained by reading the status
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Pin Signal
1 GND
2 SOLENOID
3 STATUS
4 24V
5 NC
6 GND