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Port power and settling time – ThingMagic M6e User Manual

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Antenna Ports

A D I V I S I O N O F T R I M B L E

Functionality of the Mercury6e

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Note

The “missing” logical antenna settings are still usable when only one GPIO
line is used for antenna control and simply results in redundant logical
antenna settings. For example, using only GPIO 1, logical setting 4 and 8
both result in GPIO1=Low and M6e port J4 active.

ONLY GPIO 2 Used for Antenna Switching

Port Power and Settling Time

The M6e allows the power and settling time for each logical antenna to be set using the
reader configuration parameters /reader/radio/portReadPowerList and /

3

Low

J3

4

Low

J4

9

High

J1

10

High

J2

11

High

J3

12

High

J4

Logical Antenna

Setting

GPIO

Output 2

State

Active M6e

Physical Port

1

Low

J1

2

Low

J2

3

Low

J3

4

Low

J4

5

High

J1

6

High

J2

7

High

J3

8

High

J4

Logical Antenna

Setting

GPIO

Output 1

State

Active M6e

Physical Port