Good afternoon all,
I recently had the opportunity to test out the “soon to be” released, Intermec CK3 unit. From what I heard around the horn, this unit would be replacing the CK30 and possibly even the CK31 series units. I, like many of you, have had one major concern with the CK series over the past two years and that is the battery life of the CK’s.
As many of you have heard from your customers, the CK31 just wouldn’t get a “full shift” out of its battery pack even when the unit was fully optimized. To many customers this was a major setback as they saw this as a waste of having to change out battery packs during an eight hour shift.
This being my primary concern, the first thing I wanted to know about the CK3 was will the battery pack make it through a full 8 hour shift. So I put the demo through a series of tests to find out.
The first test I performed was where I pretty much turned on every thing I possibly could on the CK3 demo and left all items running throughout the day while also performing over 500 scans. I had the backlight on, the radio constantly connected, programs going, etc. With everything “booming”, I was able to get 7 hours out of a fully charged battery pack…which in all honesty, is pretty dang good seeing that the unit was being used to its capacity.
The next day I performed a similar test but this time I optimized the unit a bit. I did keep the radio connected throughout the day and still performed over 500 scans. I only had the backlight on when the unit was being utilized and cut down on the number of programs being utilized. This being done, I was able to get 8.5 hours out of the battery pack before I left for the day. When I turned the unit off, it still had about 1/4 of battery life left as well.
To sum it all up, the CK3 will get a full shift (8 hours +) out of its battery pack which I think will relieve many of you. On a side note, I was also informed that Intermec will be offering an extended capacity battery pack as well and just to clarify, my testing was done with a standard battery pack.
You be the judge:
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Adam Chitwood
Technical Support & Customer Service Supervisor – The Ryzex Group
Filed under: Product Reviews | Tagged: Barcode, Buy New Barcode Equipment, Buy Refurbished Barcode Equipment, Intermec CK3, Wireless Barcode Scanner
Adam, I tested the CK3 recently as well, and was impressed with its performance versus similar Motorola and Datalogic units. We’ll be recommending it to our clients. If I can be of any help in the future, just let me know.
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The CK3 is one of the best products we have integrated into our customers operation, it was so easy to integrate.
We are now recommended these to our clients as standard peices of barcode equipment, it’s better than any PC driven solution.