Gasboy Magnetic Card Encoder - Manual (Page 35)

MDE-4507 Magnetic Card Encoder User’s Manual · June 2006 Page 7-1
Preventive Maintenance
7 – Preventive Maintenance
The magnetic heads of the MCE reader should be cleaned every 1000 passes or six months,
whichever occurs first. Proper and regular cleaning of the magnetic heads helps to ensure
longer life of your unit.
Cleaning cards are available from Gasboy and sold in lots of 50 (P/N Q11482-01 is one box of
50 cards). Each card is saturated in cleaning fluid and individually wrapped.
To clean the reader, log in to MCE and do the following:
1 Select Raw Read Mode from the Edit menu (refer to “Writing and Reading Cards in Raw
Mode” on page 5-1 ) and click Read.
2 Enter the cleaning card into the reader with the rough wet side of the card turned up.
The unit sends the card through the reader as any other mag card and display an error message.
3 Repeat step 2 several times.
4 Throw away the cleaning card.