KatchAll Technology Group TT04 Users Guide

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This registration card must be completed and returned to KatchAll Technology Group, Inc. within

30 days of purchase in order to validate the warranty on your new Temp Trak software and

hardware components.

By registering your Temp Trak system, you will receive free software upgrades for one year from

purchase date and notification of any new modules or advances to the system.

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£ Health & Safety Inspector

£ Trade Article

£ Trade Show Visit

£ Other:_______________

£ Dealer Recommendation

£ KatchAll Factory Representative

£ Another Food Service Operator

£ Advertisement

£ Private Club

£ In-House Food Service

£ Other:_______________

£ Correctional Facility

£ School System

£ Lodging Property

£ Health Care Provider

Middle Initial Last Name

User Information

What kind of food service operation is

your establishment?

£ Independent Restaurant

£ Chain Unit Company Store

£ Chain Unit Franchise Store

£ Caterer

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£ Fixed Temperature Monitoring

£ Random Temperature Monitoring

£ HACCP Monitoring

£ Check on Employee Monitoring Routine

£ Product Rotation Tool

£ Prepared Product Tracking / Use Tool

£ Use By Dating Tool

£ Non-Food Temperature Monitoring

£ After-Hours Monitoring / Alerting on

Temperatures

£ Inventory Processing / Control

How do you intend to use your Temp

Trak System?

Temp Trak Plus system?

£ Owner / Operator

£ Chain HQ Management

£ Organizational Management

Who purchased your Temp Trak or

Questions

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INTRODUCTION

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Congratulations!

Temp Trak is a quantum leap into the future of food service
management, and you have its benefits today.

With Temp Trak, you possess the most advanced total quality
management and time-on-task breakthrough in the history of our
industry. It is easy to learn and user friendly to operate.

Temp Trak is a unique, innovative system that gives you the
capability to read and record temperatures, and with Temp Trak
Plus — track inventory, all automatically! Both Temp Trak and
Temp Trak Plus are wireless, accurate and global, allowing man­agement to obtain precise operating information anytime, any­where.

Welcome to the world of Temp Trak, the new standard in food
service management from KatchAll Technology Group — Bring­ing you the Future in Food Safety!

Need Help?!

Temp Trak and Temp Trak Plus include a wide range of on-line
help files that assist with many common problems. For instance,
if you’re having trouble setting up a new printer, on-line help will
guide you through the process — just click on the Help button,
it’s that easy!

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If you would like to visit our web site, direct your browser to:

http://www.katchall.com

There you will find answers to commonly asked questions, soft­ware upgrades and new products.

Warranty & FCC Licensing

Temp Trak and Temp Trak Plus both come with a standard 90
day warranty on parts and labor.

The Temp Trak units have been tested and found to comply with
the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to 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 that may cause undesired
operation.

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END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR TEMP TRAK SOFT­WARE

IMPORTANT – READ CAREFULLY: This End-User license Agreement (“EULA”) is a legal agreement between you (either an
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above, which includes computer software and may include associated media, printed materials, and “online” or electronic
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the original media is required to use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on the computer, you may make one copy of the SOFTWARE
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KatchAll Industries International, Inc.
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Cincinnati, Ohio 45242

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INSTALLATION

Step 1  Installing The Program

If you do not know how to determine which comm

port is which, refer to your computer manufacturer’s

manual or contact your system administrator.

— Insert the Temp Trak CD into your CDROM drive.

— Follow the instructions on the screen.

— Double-Click on the Temp Trak icon.

Step 2  Communications Setup

During Installation and Setup use the serial cable provided
to connect the Commander units to the PC, even if you
will eventually use a computer network.

— Select Communications Setup from the menu.

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— Set CommType to Serial.

— Select an appropriate Comm Port.

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Step 3  Registering the Commander

(Repeat this step to register additional Commanders)

— Connect the system as shown.

PC

Ethernet Port

Sentry

Serial Port

Commander

— Press the Attention button on the Commander.

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Step 4  Registering Sentries

When the attention button on the Sentry unit is

pressed a series of beeps will be heard. Within 5 to

10 seconds the bar code identification and tempera-

ture sampling interval will appear on the screen.

For added protection for you

investment, it is suggested that

you use a surge protector when

using AC power adapters to power

your Temp Trak system.

(Repeat this step to register additional Sentries)

— Insert a 9V battery into the Sentry or plug it into a

wall outlet with the AC power adapter.

— Place the Sentry next to the Commander.

— Select Sentry (and XP) Registration from the menu.

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— Follow the instructions from the Sentry Registration

window prompt.

— You may change the sampling interval at this time

or wait until Step 9 where we will discuss this in
further detail.

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Step 5  Registering Sentry XPs

(Repeat this step to register additional Sentry XPs)

The Sentry XP is very similar to the Sentry in many re­spects. The major difference and advantage of the Sentry
XP over the Sentry is that it has eight thermocouple ports
instead of two. This expansion to the Sentry allows the
user to monitor more temperatures in a given area without
having to have multiple Sentries.

When registering the Sentry XPs follow the same proce­dure as when registering a Sentry.

— Plug the Sentry XP it into a wall outlet with the AC

power adapter.

— Place the Sentry XP next to the Commander.

— Select Sentry (and XP) Registration from the menu.

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— Follow the instructions from the Sentry Registration

window prompt.

— You may change the sampling interval at this time

or wait until Step 9 where we will discuss this in
further detail.

Step 6  Registering Echos

(Repeat this step to register additional Echo units)

If you have to go the extra distance or have to reach around
corners or large obstacles, you may need to use an Echo.
This unit aids in extending your radio range by acting as a
“repeater” to a local Commander unit. The Echos can be
strung together one after another in a fire chain fashion in
order to reach a maximum distance of 300 meters (or four
Echo units in a row). When placing echos in your facility,
follow the same procedures as when positioning Sentries.

— Place the Echo next to the Commander.

— Select Echo Registration from the menu.

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— Follow the instructions from the Echo Registration

window prompt.

When selecting a location within the current configuration
tree for the echo unit, be aware that the hierarchy displayed
in the tree must mimic your physical configuration for the
system to work properly. For instance if your echo unit to
be registered is going to communicate with Commander­TTB0000000999TT in the field, this is the unit you must
select in the configuration tree when you register the Echo
unit. If you are going to configure the Echo unit to commu­nicate to another Echo unit, you must select that Echo unit
in the configuration tree when registering the new Echo.

As a note, you may have multiple echo units communicate
to a single commander or other echo unit, but the maxi­mum number of “children” that can talk to a single “parent”
is three and the maximum number of “generations” allowed
is four.

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Step 7  Registering the Liberator

(Repeat this step to register additional Liberators)

— Assemble the Liberator and the Communicator.

Liberator

Communicator

— Hold the Liberator next to the Commander.

— Select Liberator Registration from the menu.

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— Pull the Liberator trigger to wake it up.

— Follow the instructions from the Liberator Registra-

tion window prompt.

— Use the up/down arrows on the liberator keypad to

select option 4. Attention.

— Press the Enter button on the Liberator to select

the Attention option.

Step 8  Printer Setup

There are two types of printers that Temp Trak Plus uses,
Auto Labeler label printers for printing labels and regular
office printers for printing placards. Placards can only be
printed from the Temp Trak software and only to an office
printer connected to that PC. Labels, however, can be
printed from and to almost anywhere as long as you have
installed and assigned an Auto Labeler correctly.

Auto Labelers can be physically connected to a PC, Com­mander, Echo, or Liberator and can be printed to by any
operator using a Liberator or PC. The only exception is
that an operator can only print to Portable Auto Labelers
that are directly connected to their Liberator.

To use an Auto Labeler you must first install your Auto
Labeler and then assign it to be the default printer for a PC
or Liberator. Once assigned as a default printer, the Lib­erator or PC will print to that Auto Labeler until the default
printer is reassigned.

— Connect the Auto-Labeler printer to PC using a

standard parallel printer cable.

INSTALLATION

— Open the Printers folder. This
is found under the Start Menu
and then under Settings.

— Double-click on the Add
Printer icon.

— Click Next.

— Select Local

Printer and click
Next.

— Under the

Manufacturers

list, select

Generic.

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— Under the Printers list, select Generic / Text Only.

— Click Next.

— Under the Available Ports list, select LPT1.

— Click Next.

— Click Next.

— Select No for printing a Test Page and click Finish.

— In Temp Trak select Install Label Printers from the

menu.

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— Click Setup.

— Follow the instructions in the Label Printer Set Up

window.

— Repeat this for each of your printers.

— Now assign a default printer for your computer and

each of your liberators. Select Assign Default
Printers from the menu.

— Next to each of the devices listed click on the ‘...’ to

select a printer to be the default printer for that
device.

Multiple Auto Labelers can be used in a Temp Trak Plus
system. To change printers, simply reassign the default
printer to the desired printer.

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SYSTEM SETUP

Step 9  Configuring Sentries

— Make sure a Commander unit is connected to the

PC with the serial cable (Step 3).

Even if you are eventually going to use an existing com­puter network to communicate to your Commander unit(s),
connect just one Commander to your PC using the serial
cable provided.

— Place all of your

Sentries near the
Commander.

— Repeat Step 4 and

set the Sampling Interval for each Sentry.

Sampling Interval is the time that the Sentry unit will wait
before it “wakes up” and takes a temperature reading, or a
sample. Between each sample, the Sentry sleeps and uses
little or no power, which means that the longer the Sentry
sleeps the longer its battery will last. Conversely, the more
often the Sentry takes samples (or the shorter the Sam-
pling Interval), the more power will be used, therefore short­ening the battery life.

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gested that a power cable is used to supply the Sentry
with power.

When choosing an appropriate Sampling Interval make sure
to take into consideration what the sentry will be monitor­ing.

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Sampling Intervals. These num­bers are only a rough estimate
and will vary depending on the
type of battery used and the
conditions your system is run­ning in. Note that any Sentry
operating with a Sampling Inter-
val of 1 minute or less will use
up batteries in a matter of
weeks! In situations where an
interval of 5 minutes or less is
necessary, it is strongly sug-

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