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connector. The keypad is scanned whenever a key is pressed;there is no continuous key scan. This means
that key presses are dealt with immediately without any appreciable latency. This also prevents electrical
noise which is often caused by continuous key scans.

9.2

Auto Transmit Key Presses On

Syntax

Hexadecimal

0xFE 0x41

Decimal

254 65

ASCII

254 “A”

Description

In this mode, all key presses are sent immediately to the host system
without the use of the poll keypad command. This is the default mode
on power up.

Remembered

Yes

Default

On

9.3

Auto Transmit Key Presses Off

Syntax

Hexadecimal

0xFE 0x4F

Decimal

254 79

ASCII

254 “O”

Description

In this mode, up to 10 key presses are buffered until the unit is polled by
the host system, via the poll keypad command 254 38. Issuing this
command places the unit in polled mode.

Remembered

Yes

9.4

Poll Key Press

Syntax

Hexadecimal

0xFE 0x26

Decimal

254 38

ASCII

254 “&”

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