[Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?

[Jacob Kruger]

Along the lines of this, why didn't they make more of the B-model (which 
happens to be the one I have), and which does in fact have a reset button on 
the left-hand bottom edge, and which doesn't as such need to be recalibrated 
since if it stops working/runs completely flat (then after charging it), you 
merely push that reset button, and after the reset/restart, it works fine 
again?

I hadn't realised that there was even another model when I bought mine, so I 
suppose I was just lucky (especially since I literally know of one other 
reader in my country so far), so it would be almost impossible to find 
someone with any experience recalibrating them this side, but anyway...

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?


> Dave;
> First of all, why didn't they tell us about this recalibration problem
> when we bought the machine.  I am really shocked they would make a
> machine for the blind that we can not recalibrate ourselves.  A reset
> could have been created like in the Humanware devices, so we could
> recalibrate the unit ourselves.  It took me for ever to find someone who
> I could trust and match them up with someone to give them instructions
> on the calibration procedure.  I now keep my unit plugged in when ever
> not in use.
>
> Terry Powers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Wright [mailto:gymnastdave at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:58 PM
> To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?
>
> hey there,
> My name is Dave Wright and I've been working with Jim Gashel for a while
> now with trouble shooting the reader. My contact info is listed below. I
> will be in Washington after 12, so please feel free to give me a call.
>
>
> Regards,
> Dave Wright
> University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC
> Email: dwrigh6 at uic.edu
> Mobile: (832)518-0707
> Please visit and Support:
> http://www.blindscience.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys at localnet.com>
> To: "reader-users" <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:14 PM
> Subject: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?
>
>
>> Will there be anyone I can see Monday at Washington to help
> re-calibrate
>> my
>> reader? My sighted wife will be there, too, and she could learn to do
> it
>> for
>> me should the need arise again.
>>
>> In December I went on a trip where I would not need it, and I left it
>> plugged in to maintain the charge, but it was accidentally touched and
> the
>> wire fell out. When I got home it was dead.
>>
>> I find this to be a major flaw in the reader. The cord from the
>> transformer
>> makes a very weak connection, and I frequently find it out.
> Fortunately it
>> is
>> rarely out for more than one day when I go to use the reader, and
> nothing
>> was lost.
>>
>> Thanks, Ed Meskys
>> Edmund R. Meskys
>> NIEKAS Publications
>> National Federation of the Blind of N.H.
>> Moultonboro Lions Club
>> edmeskys at localnet.com
>> 322 Whittier Hwy
>> Moultonboro NH 03254-3627
>> my credo:
>> Clinton lied, nothing happened
>> Bush lied, thousands died
>> and over 3,000 permanently brain injured
>>
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