Introduction to the A350C

The a350c is a RFID terminal that can be used with either proximity cards or proximity fobs supplied by Clocking Systems. In this article we will go over some of the basics of navigating the terminal to make any set ups or changes easier for you. This article is only meant to help you get familiar with controls and how the menus work, and is not meant to explain the menus themselves.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction to the A350C
• Using The Button Controls
  • Numbered keypad
  • Navigation controls

Using The Button Controls

The A350C uses a non standard, touch button keypad. Due to it not having complete directional buttons, this can make the terminal difficult to navigate sometimes, so this tutorial aims to help with that. 

Numbered keypad

On the A350C you will see a numbered keypad that will be used for all of your data inputs. These numbers are 0-9 but you will notice that each number has letters associated like the T9 style keypads of old. As the A350C uses exclusively numbered IDs, you won't need to use the letters assigned to the keys often if at all.

Navigation controls

Next we have all the navigation buttons. On the front page pressing 'M' will take you to the admin login to access the menus, any time after that 'M' will act as a back or return button, taking you back to the previous page you were on. To log in to the menu screen we have a default user and password set up, the user ID being '0' and the password being '7856'. In the event that the device has been factory reset the password may also be '12345'. We try to keep the user and password as what we set purely to make any support you may need on the device easier for our support staff. 

To get around the menus you have the 'in' and 'out' buttons, which also act as left and right as shown by the arrows on the buttons as well. These will be your main buttons for navigating the main menus.

Once you select a menu you want to edit you will be presented with more of a list layout. To cycle through the list you will want to use the 'OK' button. This will essentially accept the current setting and move on to the next one. If a setting is highlighted you will have 2 options depending on the input it requires. You will be able to type using the keypad, this is usually for editing and changing IP addresses or employee IDs, or you will have a left and right navigation, which is often used for enabling or disabling certain settings among other things. For the navigating the left and right menus you will be making use of those 'in' and 'out', or 'left' and 'right' buttons again. 

Once your settings have been chosen, there will either be a 'set' button at the bottom, which you will be able to get to by pressing 'OK' until your at the end of the menu, or if the menu doesn't have a 'set' button it means that the settings are immediately applied and you can press 'M' to back out.

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