Setting Up the Topcon KR & RM Equipment

If you have questions about the RS-232C communication format, the KR-8900 output data type, or setting up any of your Topcon equipment, contact your Topcon dealer or Topcon Medical Systems by using the address information on the back cover of your Topcon equipment documentation. You can also contact Topcon support at 866.922.6278.

In the ON-LINE screen, you can modify the computer lensometer data receiving format, communication format, and communication speed.

In the SETTINGS screen, you can modify the output data type.

The following topics explain how to set up your Topcon KR and RM equipment:

  1. In the INITIAL MENU screen, press the Measurement switch, and move the cursor to ON-LINE.
  2. Choose ON-LINE.
  3. Press the Measurement switch, and move the cursor to DATA FORMAT.
  4. Press the Print switch, and choose STD1 (Topcon STD1 format).
  5. Press the Measurement switch.

Contact Topcon support at 866.922.6278, and tell them that the Eyefinity Equipment Interface must receive the following file types:

  • XML files for the autorefraction and k-reading data
  • PDF files for the topography images
  1. On the touch-screen monitor, tap Settings.
  2. Tap Index.
  3. Tap Comm.
  4. Set the Format to STD1.
  5. Set the Baud Rate to 2400.
  6. Set the Output Data to ALL.
  7. Set the Output Port to ON.

If you use the Topcon color mapping software and topographer and the KR-8000PA autorefractor/keratometer, you must set the RS-232C communication speed baud rate to the appropriate rate to import your topography images into the color mapping software. You must then reset it to 2400, as instructed below, to import measurements from the KR-8000PA into ExamWRITER.

You cannot import topography images into ExamWRITER.

  1. In the INITIAL MENU screen, press the Measurement switch, and move the cursor to ON-LINE.
  2. Choose ON-LINE.
  3. Press the Measurement switch, and move the cursor to DATA FORMAT.
  4. Press the Print switch, and choose 2400 (baud rate 2400).
  5. Press the Measurement switch.
  1. In the INITIAL MENU screen, press the Measurement switch, and move the cursor to ON-LINE.
  2. Choose ON-LINE.
  3. Set the RS-232C format to OLD FORMAT.
  4. Press the Print switch, and choose 9600 (baud rate 9600).
  5. Press the Measurement switch.
  1. Press the Menu switch.
  2. In the SETTINGS MENU screen, press the Measurement switch.
  3. Set the Output Data Type to Yes.
  1. Press the button with the wrench symbol.
  2. Press the Comm button.
  3. Set the Output to ON.
  4. Set the Baud Rate to 2400.
  5. Set the Serial Connection to STD1.