PIC-CONTROL

A simple to use cable-tester. One touch button to learn from your master cable, and another button to test your production cables.

Setting Up for Cable Testing

The following is a guideline to using this cable tester to test your cable or wire harness.

1. Get ready the cable that you want to test.
2. Prepare the mating connectors for your cable.
3. Crimp, solder or attach a wire to each pin of the mating connector.
4. Connect each of the wire to each of the terminal port on the Cable Tester. (You can connect up to 64 points)
5. Power up the cable tester via the USB mini-B socket.
6. Connect your Master cable to the mating connectors that are now attached to the Cable Tester.
7. To learn the wiring of your Master cable, press and hold the small learning touch button on the Cable Tester device. Hold it for about 3 sec until you hear a double beep or see the PASS & FAIL LED flashing.
8. The Cable Tester device has learned your Master cable.
9. Remove the master cable from the mating connectors.
10. Replace it with the production cable that you want to test.
11. Press on the “Start TEST” to begin testing the cable. The test result will be available almost instantly within a second.
12. You should be able to see a green LED PASS lighted up if the cable has the same wiring configuration as your Master cable.
13. If the cable is not the same, you should see a red LED FAIL light up.

Cable Connection Test Report

This cable tester can also be connected via a USB cable to the computer for the display of the cable test result report.

You can use the following software to view the cable tester connectivity report.

• Download -> Cable tester terminal software.

Communication baudrate settings: 115200bps, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity bit, no hardware flow control.

There are a few commands which allow you to measure and generate the cable wiring report.

• Generate a test report with reference to your master cable.
• Current cable connection report.
• Master cable connection report.
• Learn cable connection and save the wiring configuration as the master template.

Through this report, you are able to see at a glance how a cable is being wired. A master cable wiring configuration can be saved to this tester. This tester can then base on this master cable wiring pattern and test the rest of your production cables.

Up to 64 connection points can be tested. A1 to A8 …. to H8 represent the 64 terminal points on this Cable Tester device.

Total EEPROM memory required for 64 connection is 4Kbits (64 x 64 connection points).

Test Result Example:

O	– Correct Connection
M	– Missing Connection
X	– Wrong Connection
–	– Correct No Connection

Fully Automated Test Solution

This cable tester can also be integrated into your production machine for a fully automated test system for your cables.

Click here to check up more details of this PIC-350 Cable Harness Connectivity Tester.

 

 

Raspberry Pi HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) is a specification that allows developers to create add-on boards that extend the functionality of Raspberry Pi computers. Customised modules for Raspberry Pi HATs are designed to meet specific needs or applications, offering tailored features and capabilities that standard modules may not provide. This flexibility is one of the key advantages of the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, enabling hobbyists, educators, and professionals to innovate and create unique projects.

Customised Module for Raspberry Pi

We can help you customise an attachment suitable for your application.
Ensure that your device can be as compact as possible.
Neater and more reliable wiring connection.

Contact PIC-CONTROL in Singapore for more information.

Other Raspberry Pi Form Factors and Models

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
• Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+
• Raspberry Pi 1 Model A+
• Raspberry Pi 1 Zero W (with wireless and Bluetooth)
• Raspberry Pi 1 Zero
• Compute Module 3, Module 3 Lite, Module 1
• Compute Module IO Board V3

 

References

• Zigbee attachment board for Raspberry Pi

Advantages of a Cashless Payment System

More and more customers are using a cashless card to make payment for their purchase. Customer may not have enough cash notes/coin but they definitely have a cashless card for their daily shopping or transportation in Singapore.

1. Increase Sales
   
2. Fast and Convenient
3. No more collection and handling of cash money notes/coins
4. Reduce the administration, operation, maintenance and banking cost.
5. Daily transaction report
6. Able to accept a variety of payment amount (unlike a notes or coin acceptor).
7. More robust (no mechanical part)
8. Customer does not need to look for cash notes/coins for the purchase.
9. Machine does not need to return change or hold cash.
10. Contactless payment. (Hygiene from germs, bacterial compared to notes/coins)

The use of a cashless payment system eliminate the need of handling of coins. Coins handling charges by the bank can be very costly.

Application

More and more customers are carrying less cash (coins and notes) in their wallet. Cashless is more convenient and faster transaction. Improve and automate your sales by using a cashless payment system.

We offer Rental Package

For $5-$8 dollars a day (yearly package), you will get to own your cashless payment system
to increase your sales and improve your operational efficiency.

Monthly/Weekly rental is also available. Please contact us for the package rates.

Why Rental?

Focus on your business and leave your engineering headache to us.

We have design this package to help businesses cap the cost of maintaining a cashless payment system, as well as lowering the initial engineering cost. Simple to understand price ceiling so that you will not have any price shock.

Technical engineering care support is inclusive in this rental package to ensure that any of your technical problem will be resolved. Free consultation on your machine even if it is not relating to the payment system. This is our support to ensure that your machine will operates smoothly. You success is our success.

Package	Monthly Rental Rate (2 years contract, billed yearly)
[1] Wired internet connectivity available onsite.	S$170 per month
[2] No internet connectivity available onsite. or Wireless connectivity.	S$230 per month

** Rental package is INCLUSIVE of integration work. Subjected to our sales engineer’s assessment.

** Typical lead time for the engineering integration work takes about 6-8 weeks time.

** Standard vending payment procedures. (MDB Payment Terminal model)

** Price package is subjected to our project feasibility assessment.

Charges

We would like to make the pricing clear and simple to understand for our clients.

• 1 year advance rental payment. (assuming Package [1], this will be S$1800)
• 3 months rental deposit. (assuming Package [1], this will be S$450)

The total down payment for Package [1] is $2250 + GST.
Subsequent rental payment will be collected yearly in advance.

Other charges

• Per transaction charges (typically 0.8%, 1.6% to 3%-5%). Depending on your selected payment service provider. Ezlink, Nets and Banks for (Visa, MasterCard)
• Opening of account is required for each type of card payment that you want to accept. There is no charges to the opening of the accounts from us. Some banks or service provider may charge a small fee for using their facilities. You can source or negotiate for a better rate.

Not inclusive of

Every project is unique on its own. If your project requires additional complex work there may be additional engineering cost involve. We can waive off simple engineering work. Please contact us for an assessment. The additional cost would probably comes from the following scenario.

• Electrical and cabling work.
• Complex custom enclosure work.
• Complex integration work.
• Non-standard vending payment procedure. (Customised payment process, or non-MDB payment process.)
  Click here to read more about the standard MDB payment process here.
• Additional note collecting peripheral (+$50/month)
• Additional coin collecting peripheral (+$10/month)

Site infrastructure that you should provision for your project

The following are some of the infrastructure you can start to provision for your cashless payment system.

1. 1x or 2x Power Point Socket
2. 1x Ethernet socket (with connectivity to the internet)
3. Connectivity to machines (May not be applicable to your project)

For your reference, you can check out the dimension size of the payment reader terminal for your machine.

For remote mobile data connection option, check out the standard size dimension of the 3G/4G router modem.

Cashless Payment Mode

There are various card and mobile phone payment available to choose from. Additional charges applies for each transaction. Some providers or banks may charge for opening an account with them. The account offered may change from time to time. So it is good to compare the package offered and negotiate with them for the best rate. We will guide you along for your account opening when you take up our rental package.

The following are the payment mode available to choose from,

• Ez-Link (CEPAS)
• Net FlashPay (CEPAS)
• Visa PayWave
• MasterCard PayPass
• AMEX
• PayNow
• SGQR
• Alipay
• WeChat pay
• Apple Pay
• Google Pay
• JCB, Diners, UPI (NEW)
• GrabPay & Singtel Dash (NEW)

Custom Cashless Payment Integration

Send in your enquiry to PIC-CONTROL today for your customised cashless payment system.

Send in the following information,

1. Photos of your machinery.
2. Machine Documentation (User Manual, Technical Manual, etc…)

Reference:

• Single Payment Terminal serving multiple machines
• Ez-Link Payment System
• Water Dispenser Kiosks
• Centralized Kiosk Payment Station
• Payment Terminals for cashless transaction
• Cashless Card Payment for Vending Machine
• Cashless Card Payment for Arcade Gaming Machine
• Card Payment for Coin Token Exchange Machine
• Payment Terminal for Toy Catcher Machine
• PayNow SGQR Payment System for Vending Machines Merchants, Retailers and Food Stall Operators
• Cashless Payment Solution for Vending Machine