[Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?

[Jacob Kruger]

Oh yes, I've now basically had mine for around a year and a half, and I'm 
pretty sure there were other guys getting the A model after I got mine, so, 
I suppose, that while maybe those were just ones that were stocked up before 
the change, it just seems weird that the A model was still being supplied 
after the B one was available, and, also, FWIW, my unit has in fact needed 
to be reset around 4 times even though the battery didn't really run flat - 
it just hung up for whatever reason while being used, so this isn't really 
something you have control over/can avoid.

Stay well

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk at cknet.co.za>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?


> 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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