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Visual Touch TTY
Model: KVT100
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
First Edition 2005
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Krown Visual Touch TTY | Instructions | 1st Edition | April 2005 Krown Manufacturing, Inc. 3408 Indale Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76116 voice: (817) 738-2485 | TTY: (817) 738-8993 | Fax: (817) 738-1970 E-mail: info@krownmfg.com | Web site: www.krownmfg.com
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FCC REQUIRED INFORMATION The Federal Communications Commission under Part 68 Rules and Regulations has granted your Braille-TTY KVT100 a registration number for direct connection to the telephone lines. The FCC requires that you be advised of the requirements involved with owning a telecommunications device. 1. Connect your KVT100 to the nationwide telephone network through a telephone company-provided registered jack.Your KVT100 cannot be plugged into a party line or directly connected to coi
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FCC REQUIRED INFORMATION 5. Your telephone company may make changes in its facilities, equipment, operations or procedures that could affect the proper functioning of your KVT100. If changes occur, you will be notified in advance to give you an opportunity to maintain uninterrupted service. SERVICE REQUIREMENTS If your KVT100 needs repair, pack it in the original shipping box along with the adapter/charger. Please be sure to enclose a note describing the problem you are having. You may send th
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INTRODUCTION Welcome to state-of-the-art Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf, Deaf Blind and Hearing Impaired manufactured by the industry pioneer: Krown Manufacturing Inc. We have provided a full line of telephone devices to meet the many individual needs. Expert craftsmanship, superior design and affordable prices are what Krown Manufacturing stands for. Your new Visual Touch Braille-TTY KVT100 is the very latest from Krown Manufacturing Inc. This manual is set up so that you are able
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FCC Requirements.............................................................................................................................................1 Service Requirements .......................................................................................................................................2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................
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Table of Contents IV. Direct Connect.......................................................................................................................................20 • Direct Connect Modes • Keyboard Dialing • Memory Dialing • Call Progress Indicators • Answer a Call in Direct Connect Mode •Tone/Pulse Dialing • Auto Answer • Remote Message Retrieva V. Important Information ....................................................................................................................
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CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED SETTING UP YOUR VISUAL TOUCH BRAILLE-TTY PHONE Place your Visual Touch Braille refreshable (Vtouch) and the KVT100 TDD on a table in front of you. Have the KVT100 and the Vtouch keyboard facing you either side by side or the KVT100 on top of the Vtouch near your telephone outlet. Turn OFF the power switch on the KVT100. Plug the adaptor to the electric outlet. Plug the other end of the adaptor to the KVT100 power connector. Let the machine charge up to 24 hours befor
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CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED ACOUSTIC/DIRECT CONNECT MODES Acoustic coupling: Place the telephone hand set on top of the TDD with the cord on the left hand side. Type your greeting message and finish with a GA (Go Ahead).To check KVT100 status, press CTRL-P. If the KVT100 is in ACOUSTIC MODE the display will read as: “ACOUSTIC” If you read: “ONLINE READY” or “OFF LINE” Press, at the same time, the CTRL-DIAL keys to change mode to acoustic. USE OF BRAILLE CODE KVT100 uses Braille code in the bas
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CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED BAUDOT CODE The standard 45.5 Baud Baudot code is used For North America. The rest of the world uses 50 Baud baudot. To make a call outside of the country, press and hold the CTRL key then tap the LEFT ARROW key. By pressing “Y” on your keyboard, you choose to change speed of your TTY to make an international call. PERKINS-STYLE MODE AND FULLTYPE MODE The KVT100 has 2 keyboard typing modes - Perkins-Style Mode and Full-T ype mode. To switch between these two modes, pr
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CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED ELECTRONIC VOICE The Electronic Voice is a single unchangeable voice message that is stored in the memory of your TDD. The message is used for calling hearing people at a VOICE/TDD number. It tells them by electronic voice: “Please use TDD for hearing-impaired caller.” The voice message will be repeated until your TDD conversation begins (when your TDD receives a signal from another TDD). As soon as the other person begins to type, the electronic voice message stops
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CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED The Ni-Cad batteries will operate for approximately 3 hours when fully charged. The batteries will automati- cally recharge whenever the units are plugged into the AC charger/adapter. To help the battery last longer, let the units run down until the KVT100 stops working. When this happens, you must charge the battery by using AC power.You can continue to use the KVT100 until you recharge the battery. It is suggested that you use the Braille-TTY battery power in a reg
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CHAPTER 2 USING YOUR VISUAL TOUCH BRAILLE-TTY PHONE After setting up and turning on your KVT100 you see the message “BRAILLE MODE READY” or “TTY MODE READY” on both units. The machine is ready to use. Try brailing or typing some characters. For example: “abcdef.” You will see the characters you brailled dis- played from left to right and ended by six lower dots of a Braille cell. This cell is called the “cursor”. It shows you the next character position. When the 20th character is filled,
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CHAPTER 2: USING YOUR VISUAL TOUCH BRAILLE-TTY PHONE Continuing to press RIGHT ARROW toward the end of conversation will link the two units back together automatically when cursor hits the current position. If you want to exit this function without having to browse to the end of the message, press RETURN any time to force the KVT100 to link to the Visual Touch Braille Display. NOTE: Do not forget to quit UNLINK mode after you used the read-back function. It is faster if you use CTRL-E to jump to
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CHAPTER 2: USING YOUR VISUAL TOUCH BRAILLE-TTY PHONE ANSWERING A CALL IN ACOUSTIC MODE 1. Turn the Power Switch on. 2. Pick up and place your telephone handset firmly into the acoustic cups of the KVT100 with the cord to the LEFT. 3. By pressing the SPACE BAR, you start the conversation. Type your greeting message. For example: “BARBARA HERE GA” 4. When both people have finished the conversation, place your telephone handset back on the phone. 5. Turn OFF power switch. MAKING AN OVERSEAS CALL T
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CHAPTER 3 THE MEMORY The TTY has a 32K (32768 characters) memory. The memory feature can save you time by letting you save often used messages, prepare a message before making a call to save on long distance charges, and to save frequently called numbers. MEMORY AREAS The KVT100 memory is divided into 6 blocks, consisting of 5 “areas” labeled M1 to M5 plus a directory for phone numbers: • M1 and M2 can hold 32 characters each. These are suitable for short messages such as a greeting that might
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CHAPTER 3: THE MEMORY 3. Type the message you want to store with a full-type keyboard. Do not use 6 keys in Braille mode. Your message will be displayed as you type with a space between each character on your Braille display. These extra spaces will not appear when your message is sent. 4. Press CTRL-9 to save. The message will be stored and the display shows: “MEMORY SAVED”. 5. Press CTRL-1 to check the message you typed. If it is not correct, repeat steps from 1 to 5. Use the same method f
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CHAPTER 3: THE MEMORY VIEWING A STORED MESSAGE To read a message stored in memory, you must first access the memory areas by pressing CTRL-5, then type a number to tell the KVT100 where the message is stored. The area name (for example, M2) will be shown on the right side of the display, and the message will be shown in the center of the KVT100 display. The Visual Touch starts the message from the left hand side. Press RIGHT ARROW, you will notice the cursor moves to the first cell. As you con
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CHAPTER 3: THE MEMORY 4. Press spacebar The location’s label and the cursor will appear on the right end of the display. 5. Type the name and number 6. Press CTRL-9 to save. “MEMORY SAVED” will appear on the display. NOTE: Numbers can be separated with a “-” DASH but only numbers will be dialed. Letters and dashes will not affect dialing. If needed for the operation of a special business system, a pause or delay in dialing string can be inserted between numbers. Type a (+)PLUS for each one se
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CHAPTER 3: THE MEMORY CREATING A PASSWORD You will need a password to retrieve your message in your house answering machine when you are away from home. Your password will be stored in location 0 (zero) of the Phone Directory. A password must be at least five characters in length. To create a password: 1. Press CTRL-5 2. Press “D” for directory 3. Press “0” ”TYPE PASSWORD” is shown. 4. Press the SPACE BAR then type your password. 5. Press CTRL-9 to save. “MEMORY SAVED” is displayed. CLEARING TH
