Xi an NovaStar Tech GPC100 Gasoline Price Controller User Manual

Xi'an NovaStar Tech Co., Ltd Gasoline Price Controller

User Manual

Rev 1.0.1 NS120100069
User’s Manual
Gasoline Price Controller GPC100
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STATEMENT
Dear users,
Welcome to use GPC100 of Xi’an NovaStar Tech Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Nova”). It will
be our great pleasure if this manual can help you better understand and use the product. During the
preparation of the manual, we have tried our best to make it the most accurate and reliable. Nova
may revise and alter the contents of the manual at any time without further notice. If you have any
problems or suggestions during use, please inform us in accordance with the contact information
provided in the manual. For the problems you may encounter during use, we will do our best to
provide support. As for your suggestions, we would like to express our sincere appreciation and will
make assessment for adoption as soon as possible.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright of this manual is owned by Nova. Any individual or organization is not allowed to copy or
extract whole or any part of the contents in any form without prior written approval from Nova. All
rights are reserved.
TRADEMARK
is the registered trademark of Xi’an NovaStar Tech Co., Ltd.
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FCC Caution
Any Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance
could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two
conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any
interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital
device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable
protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses
and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the
instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no
guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause
harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the
equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of
the following measures:
—Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
—Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
—Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is
connected.
—Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
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Table of Contens
1 System Overview ....................................................................................................................... 1
2 Configuration List ....................................................................................................................... 1
3 Appearance ............................................................................................................................... 2
4 Basic Functions .......................................................................................................................... 2
4.1 Paring .............................................................................................................................. 2
4.2 Gas price modification ..................................................................................................... 3
4.3 Country selecting ............................................................................................................. 4
4.4 Error detection ................................................................................................................. 4
4.5 Brightness setting ............................................................................................................ 5
4.6 Pos Protocol setting ......................................................................................................... 6
4.7 Configuration file upgrading ............................................................................................. 6
4.8 Program file upgrading ..................................................................................................... 7
4.9 Configuration parameters back-up and restoration ........................................................... 7
4.10 IFSF Protocol ............................................................................................................... 8
4.11 GILBARCO Protocol ..................................................................................................... 8
4.12 VERIFONE Protocol ..................................................................................................... 8
5 Dimensions ................................................................................................................................ 8
6 Technical Parameters ................................................................................................................ 9
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1 System Overview
In order to solve the problem of gas price modification inconvenience through remote controller,
Nova has launched GPC100 which is not only capable of effectively controlling multiple control
cards GPU100 of gas price board but also connecting commonly-used communication protocols of
obtaining gas price on market to achieve centralized management of gas price board control card
GPU.
Features:
1） Supporting centralized management of gas price board control card GPU100;
2） Supporting wireless control of gas price board control card GPU and with a frequency of
433MHZ;
3） Supporting multiple gas price control of different countries such as the US, Canada and
Mexico;
4） Supporting gas price modification protocols of RS232 communication, GILBARCO,VERIFONE;
5） Supporting gas price modification protocol of Ethernet port communication, IFSF;
6） Supporting lost connection detection, error inspection control, brightness control, upgrade of
configuration and program of gas price board control card GPU100;
7） Supporting U disk back-up and restoration of configuration information;
8） Supporting export of record information of gas price modification via U disk;
9） Supporting gas price modified by synchronous remote controller;
10） Supporting error detection of gas price;
11） Supporting program upgrading by U disk;
12） Supporting power down protection.
2 Configuration List
Product
Model/Version
Functions
GPC100
V1.0.0
Controlling GPU100
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3 Appearance
RS232: Serial port, using for connecting VERIFONE protocol and VERIFONE protocol
ETHERNET: Ethernet port, using for connecting IFSF protocol
USB: USB port, using for the program upgrading of GPC100 and the backup and restoration of
device parameters.
DC12V: Power port, using for providing power supply to GPC100.
Antenna interface: Using for connecting antenna of 433M.
Interface definition of RS232
Pin2
TX
Pin3
RX
Pin5
GND
4 Basic Functions
4.1 Paring
Click →GPU Card to enter the page of GPU100 pairing. Click Add to add pairing card
GPU01 (4 pairing cards GPU01~ GPU04 can be added at most) . Click GPU01 to enter the
corresponding page of pairing information. Click Search to pair within three minutes after GPU01
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power on. Part of the corresponding information of GPU100 will be displayed on the interface after
pairing completed.
Click Delete to delete the last added pairing card.
4.2 Gas price modification
Click Gas price on the main interface of start-up to enter the state of gas price modification and
highlight. And now slide on the figures using finger to modify the figures. Click gases marker after
gas price modification completed to exit the interface of gas price modification. Then click Send to
send gas prices to display screen.
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4.3 Country selecting
Click → → to enter the interface of “Select country” and select
corresponding country.(The default is USA.)
Select gasoline: Correspond to the four kinds of gas on the main interface respectively.
Corresponding gases will take effect if checked. While the gases cannot be set if not checked.
4.4 Error detection
Click ->Error Detection->GPU01(Add and delete error detection card depending on the
adding and deleting of pairing card) to enter Error Detection interface. Click Detect for detection.
Select Channel01~Channel10 to achieve graphic display of the error detection results.
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4.5 Brightness setting
Click ->Function-> to enter the interface of Brightness setting. Choose the pairing
cards that require setting to set brightness either manually or automatically.
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4.6 Pos Protocol setting
Click ->Function-> to enter the interface of Pos Protocol setting. Select protocol
type and Baud rate of RS232 serial port.
Please click Set for setting after selecting.
4.7 Configuration file upgrading
Copy configuration files card01_config.gaso~card04_config.gaso generated by software GASO
TOOLS to the following directory of U disk with FAT file system:
\GPC100\CFGParameters\Recovery\000000000000. Plug U disk into device and the interface will
display the progress bar of copying process from file to U disk. Pull out the U disk after copying
completed.
Click →Function → to enter the Config file interface. Click Update to
upgrade and progress bar will display the process of upgrading.
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4.8 Program file upgrading
Copy upgrade file GPU100_APP.bin to following directory of the U disk with FAT file system:
GPC100\CFGParameters\Recovery\000000000000; Plug U disk into device and the interface will
display the progress bar of copying process from file to U disk. Pull out the U disk after copying
completed.
Click →Function → to enter the Program file update interface. Click to
upgrade and progress bar will display the process of upgrading.
4.9 Configuration parameters back-up and restoration
Plug U disk with FAT file system into the device. The device will copy configuration parameters to
the following directory of U disk: \GPC100\CFGParameters\Backup\xxxxxxxxxxxx
(“xxxxxxxxxxxx” is the SN of backup device).
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If you want to restore backup parameters or copy the configuration of device A to device B quickly
and change xxxxxxxxxxxx to the SN(This can be found in the version information of GPC100) of
restored device or to “000000000000”(All devices can be restored if it is all zeros while only the
corresponding device can be restored if it is a specific SN.). Plug into device. Configuration
parameters under the directory of U disk \GPC100\CFGParameters\Recovery\xxxxxxxxxxxx will be
copied to the device.
\GPC100\ ICONSource \Backup\xxxxxxxxxxxx is the backup of picture logo information of the
device.
The use of the folder Recovery and “xxxxxxxxxxxx” is in accordance with the above.
4.10 IFSF Protocol
Connect device to network equipment(router) with the functions of DHCP server. Physical Local
Subnet is 8 and Physical Local Node is 1. Modify gas price 0x11~0x18 according to IFSF protocol.
4.11 GILBARCO Protocol
Device will connect GILBARCO protocol communicated through RS232 to the third party device.
Modify gas price in 0~7 channels in accordance with GILBARCO protocol.
4.12 VERIFONE Protocol
Device will connect VERIFONE protocol communicated through RS232 to the third party device.
Modify gas price in 0~7 channels in accordance with VERIFONE protocol.
5 Dimensions
Fig. 5-1 Dimensions (Unit: mm)
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6 Technical Parameters
Rated voltage（V）
12.0
Rated current（A）
0.18
Max.
2.0
Ambient temperature(℃)
Max.
60.0
Min.
0.0
Ambient humidity (%)
Max.
90
Min.
10
Storage and transportation
temperature(℃)
-20 to70
Net weight
696g
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