Gasboy MCE300 - Manual (Page 56)

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Section 10
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
The magnetic heads of the MCE 300 reader should be cleaned every 1000 passes or 6 months,
whichever occurs first. The maintenance interval for the number of passes can be monitored by
the TOTAL PASSES THROUGH READER count found in the T command (see Section 4).
Proper and regular cleaning of the magnetic heads will help to ensure longer life of your unit.
Cleaning cards are available from GASBOY and sold in lots of 50 (GASBOY P/N C08757 is 1 box
of 50 cards). Each card is saturated in cleaning fluid and individually wrapped.
To clean the reader:
At an asterisk (*) prompt -
1.
Enter the R command.
You will be prompted: ENTER CARDS
2.
Enter the cleaning card into the reader with the rough wet side of the card down.
The unit will send the card through the reader as any other mag card and print READ
ERROR on the data terminal.
3.
Repeat step 2 several times.
4.
Throw away the cleaning card.