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<blockquote data-quote="Star B" data-source="post: 2998252" data-attributes="member: 61246">Yes, aging hardware and more requirements.&nbsp; It&#039;s also running out of local storage according to the engineer... but then that&#039;s what you get when you load the entire stations manifest (every single package assigned to the station) on a unit.&nbsp; The bigger the station, the bigger the problems, I bet.What do you mean?&nbsp; The &quot;barcode scanner&quot; aka imager is a Zebra imager that just takes a picture the 1D/2D barcode and spits the data back to the application once it gets a good decode.&nbsp; The only &quot;laser&quot; in the powerpads is the box and the crosshairs.&nbsp; The red that is splashed all over the scan area?&nbsp; Those are just LEDs like in your alarm clock just to light up the area and create contrast to help the imager pick up the contrast.&nbsp; You could throw bright white LEDs in place and make it flash white and it would probably still work.&nbsp; Intermec makes a nice Windows7mobile unit with white LEDs and a red crosshair to help with aiming.I&#039;ve found that the application has just become unresponsive at times... if I were to guess it&#039;s because it&#039;s not multi-threaded (sign of the age of the app) and it can&#039;t properly handle the GPS logging, scanning requests and dealing with the batch queue at the same time.EDIT:&nbsp; Maybe the unresponsiveness is what you are talking about.&nbsp; Well, here&#039;s a possible explanation of it:&nbsp; When the barcode scanner gets a good read, it needs to hear back from the application whether or not to allow another imager activation.&nbsp; It may be set in software to only allow one successful barcode scan per imager activation.&nbsp; If the software is frozen due to the previously mentioned threading issue, you scan the barcode, the imager decodes it and sends it to the software and waits for the software to respond.&nbsp; Because the software is frozen, it can&#039;t get the OK to do another scan, so it appears that the scanner is busted but when it is the software that is holding up the show.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Star B, post: 2998252, member: 61246"] Yes, aging hardware and more requirements. It's also running out of local storage according to the engineer... but then that's what you get when you load the entire stations manifest (every single package assigned to the station) on a unit. The bigger the station, the bigger the problems, I bet. What do you mean? The "barcode scanner" aka imager is a Zebra imager that just takes a picture the 1D/2D barcode and spits the data back to the application once it gets a good decode. The only "laser" in the powerpads is the box and the crosshairs. The red that is splashed all over the scan area? Those are just LEDs like in your alarm clock just to light up the area and create contrast to help the imager pick up the contrast. You could throw bright white LEDs in place and make it flash white and it would probably still work. Intermec makes a nice Windows7mobile unit with white LEDs and a red crosshair to help with aiming. I've found that the application has just become unresponsive at times... if I were to guess it's because it's not multi-threaded (sign of the age of the app) and it can't properly handle the GPS logging, scanning requests and dealing with the batch queue at the same time. EDIT: Maybe the unresponsiveness is what you are talking about. Well, here's a possible explanation of it: When the barcode scanner gets a good read, it needs to hear back from the application whether or not to allow another imager activation. It may be set in software to only allow one successful barcode scan per imager activation. If the software is frozen due to the previously mentioned threading issue, you scan the barcode, the imager decodes it and sends it to the software and waits for the software to respond. Because the software is frozen, it can't get the OK to do another scan, so it appears that the scanner is busted but when it is the software that is holding up the show. [/QUOTE]

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