Would this cable simply be the black cable the scanner already uses?
Or is there a different cable to buy?
I ask because the standard included scanner cable would not provide the scanner with 12volts. I assume there is a new cable similar to the one from the Metro line that would have a powet line.
BTW I know you going to ask if you can use the cable from MetroY series , well the answer is NO you should not
The transmission rate of the new dedicated cable is much faster to match the proper speed of Tracking scanner while scanning as standalone
There is no a pin in the older cable that can be attached to the scanner . The end of the Metro series power/data cable has a different end that would need to be broken off to make it work.
the black cable that came with my trackit does not work, so I assume it is not the same cable as the one they are selling. this is a function that should have been included at launch, and having to buy an extra cable doesnt really seem fair.
I already explained in my above post and there is nothing else to guess about . Please buy the dedicated cable as described.
I understand that it my be a bitter-sweet situation but the standalone feature was not planned , it was added after lots of users asked for it and special cable was produced for that reason.
After that I realized there’s no place to inject power without the Tracker hub, and all the weird right-angle connectors make reusing the cables impossible even if they would work without power.
My bad , I refered to the dedicate cable rather to the black cable that can’t support the power for obvious reason , your computer can’t power Trackit, it needs 12V not 5V it would burn up your USB port probably even if somehow you made it to work.
I should be more clear in my first reply , however I explained exactly later but I see everyone pretending it is not there.
You get the same result as you scanning with Trackit in Marker mode , maybe slight faster , there is not markerless scanning obviously .
Users wanted to use Trackit in marker mode without the need to attach everything to the Tracker , now they can use it and leave the Tracker in the case, that is all.