Hello everyone, i recently ordered an TTL interfaced magstripe reader to be able to do this project: http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-magnetic-stripe-decoder/#step1
However im not sure how to wire it to my arduino since the wires on the F2F decoder is labelled differently than the one in the tutorial.
The tutorial states that you should wire like this:
DATA - pin 2
CLK - pin 3
LOAD - pin 5
But my wires are labelled like this:
So my question is, in what pins should i place the RDT, CLS and RCK wire?
Im a beginner in electronics as you might notice, and i would appreciate any help that can point me in the right direction.
Best regards
Lassemajsan
From my extremely limited experience with these card readers I have observed that there are usually three output signals. One tells you when a card has been detected. The second is a signal or strobe that tells you when the data is valid. The third is the data line itself. After looking at some Magtek data sheets I would imagine that in your case 'RDT' is the data line, 'CLS' is the card loaded signal, and 'RCK' is the data valid strobe line. So you should try connecting (1) RDT to DATA - pin2, (2) CLS to LOAD - pin 5, and (6) RCK to CLK - pin 3.
floresta:
From my extremely limited experience with these card readers I have observed that there are usually three output signals. One tells you when a card has been detected. The second is a signal or strobe that tells you when the data is valid. The third is the data line itself. After looking at some Magtek data sheets I would imagine that in your case 'RDT' is the data line, 'CLS' is the card loaded signal, and 'RCK' is the data valid strobe line. So you should try connecting (1) RDT to DATA - pin2, (2) CLS to LOAD - pin 5, and (6) RCK to CLK - pin 3.
