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Digital Tachograph EFAS-4.8 User Guide (EN)
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Digital Tachograph EFAS-4.8 Copyright No specifications in this user guide may be changed without the written permission of Intellic GmbH. Intellic GmbH does not assume liability for this user guide. Use and reproduction are only permitted in accordance with the contractual stipulations. No part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or translated into another language without the express written permission of Intellic GmbH.
Table of content Introduction ............................... 3 General ......................................3 Legal Requirements ................................3 Operation ................................4 Display and Controls ................................4 Working with menus ................................4 Display Symbols and Combinations ......................5 Menu Structure ..............................6 Operation of EFAS – Driver and Co-Driver ....................8 Before Starting..................................8 Automatic Settings .................................8 Time Zones ....................................8...
Introduction General The digital tachograph EFAS-4.8 (hereinafter abbreviated as EFAS) logs the work periods, driving times, rest periods and availability periods of the driver and co-driver. Furthermore, EFAS logs automatically the speed and distance covered by the vehicle. The protocols logged by the digital tachograph serve as proof for controlling bodies (e.g.
Operation Display and Controls The digital tachograph EFAS features the following display elements and controls: 1. Service interface cover (cap) 2. Red warning light to display the operating mode Display Meaning The warning light flashes upon activation (functional check). EFAS is ready for operation. Permanently red y If an FE warning is displayed EFAS awaiting the acknowledgment of this warning.
Display Symbols and Combinations Symbol Meaning Availability, current availability period Driver, driving, mode: OPERATIONAL, continuous driving time Rest, current rest period Work, current work period Break, cumulative break time Unknown Company, mode: COMPANY Controller, mode: CONTROL ...
Symbol Meaning Daylight saving time activated Speed monitoring Register company on digital tachograph De-register company from digital tachograph No card --- Card valid to Driver card Company card Control card Workshop card rest needed !...
Operation of EFAS – Driver and Co-Driver Before Starting Before starting your trip, you must insert your driver card into the left-hand slot (with chip side up). Your card will be read. Your name, the date and the time of your last card withdrawal will be displayed. Next, the display shows the question “Complete manual inputs?”...
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5.4.1 Odometer The first line displays the following information from left to right: y Symbol for driver activity (in this case, driving). y The card symbol indicates that there is a card in the driver slot. The card symbol is hidden when no card is inserted.
5.4.5 Remaining Times ( iCounter ) The screen provides important times to organize further trip activities. Most important information is always shown in row 1. The screen shown above is an example and may differ from EFAS. For further information see section 5.10.
Digital Tachograph not required (OUT) For trips which are excluded from the provisions of EC Regulation or the driving staff regulations, you may activate the specific condition “out of scope” (OUT). Select OK g Inputs g OUT Begin Press OK. In order to switch-off the condition “out of scope”...
Display Meaning auto. switching to Driver has to switch to REST driving break manual switching to Remaining driving period until next driving break of (now) driving break of 45 minutes. 45‘ 1 minute of 45 minutes driving break are over. 00h01 daily rest period No more remaining time available...
Automatic Setting of Activity after Ignition ON/OFF (Option) In the modes COMPANY and CALIBRATION, by using the function “Activity Ignition”, the activity can be selected which will be automatically set for the driver and/or co-driver after the ignition is turned on/off. This function can also be switched off, so that after switch over the ignition, the current activity is maintained.
While data is being downloaded from the digital tachograph, a flashing twin arrow is displayed. If you insert a tachograph card into a card reader slot during a download, the card will only be read by EFAS, after the download has completed.
Printing Data The built-in printer allows you to print data stored within EFAS and on tachograph cards: Select OK g Printout and, on the following menu level select among: Daily report from your driver/workshop card (stored on the inserted card) Daily report from the vehicle unit (stored within the digital tachograph) Events and faults from the driver/workshop card (stored on the inserted card) Events and faults from the vehicle unit (stored within the digital tachograph)
Driver’s times summary ( iCounter ) The print out of current driving times can be done using the print function „ Driver’s times summary“. Remarks: y A question mark (“?”) is printed after a value when periods of unknown activity were consulted in order to calculate - printing time ...
Service Identifier The printout of the last max. 100 Service-IDs (events/faults) can be shown via the print menu “SrvId“. The printout is in reverse chronological order, latest events/faults are printed in the list above. Faults that are still pending, are marked with of time “--h--”.
10.2.2 Display Brightness If your EFAS is not connected to the central brightness control for the dashboard lighting of your vehicle, the display brightness for day and night can be set via the menu. The day mode is stored when the vehicle lights are off.
10.4 Time and Date Use this menu item and its respective menu sub-items to correct the time, set the time zone, activate/deactivate the automatic switch to daylight savings time, change the format of the date display and time format (12h/24h). Due to legal restrictions the time can only be changed fully in calibration mode by using a workshop card.
Symbol Card status Company card - start of validity period not yet reached or expiry date exceeded Data error on control card Control card - start of validity period not yet reached or expiry date exceeded Data error on workshop card ...
Display Meaning The previous card withdrawal was not completed properly. This event is triggered when the driver activity changes without valid card to DRIVING or changing during driver activity DRIVING to another operating mode. The two inserted tachograph cards must not be used together. Remove one of the cards.
11.2 Repeated Display of events and faults The display of events / faults, the cause of which is not yet completed, will be displayed again after a change of driver / workshop card or once a day. The display appears with a acoustic signal until it is terminated by pressing the 9 or OK.
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Display SrvId Warning S122 Warning when reaching maximum daily driving time of 10 hours ! hhhmm (XX minutes before 9 hours reached). (hhhmm represents the current daily driving time to the date on which the warning was generated.) XX minutes represents a configurable warning time in minutes. The default value is set in EFAs to 30 minutes.
Important Pictogram Combinations Display Meaning Place of begin of working day Place of end of working day Start time End time Team Driving time in one week I Driving time in two weeks II Card conflict !...
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