Has anyone tried to purchase an Autosweep RFID and actually use it to get through the Easytrip lanes at NLEX/SCTEX?
Has anyone tried to purchase an Autosweep RFID and actually use it to get through the Easytrip lanes at NLEX/SCTEX?
On the news, this guy from NLEX wants a law to penalize people who enters expressway with insufficient balance or defective RFID. I understand the balance, it can be easily prevented. Pero yung defective, the only time you'll know it's defective eh pag nasa expressway ka na. Besides, misnsn sila ang may defect, nababasa sa ibang toll gate yung rfid pag dating sa iba hindi.![]()
"your product is defective, and you are penalizing us for it?"
heh heh.
there was a time,
every other slex tollgate couldn't read my car's rfid. as we all know, we had to whip out the card for the attendant to shoot it with her scanner...
also,
a number of times in slex tollgate, even recently, the machine wouldn't give me a read-out on how much my card still had.
i had to ask the attendant to see how much was still in it.
during those days,
i had the impression the slex system worked better than the nlex system...
Last edited by dr. d; April 5th, 2024 at 09:30 AM.
There was one time when my wife’s RFID wasn’t read at NAIAX. The attendant told her that her RFID was defective. She was able to pass using the card, but she can’t get over the fact that someone told her it was defective. After that, every time we pass another toll gate and her RFID is recognized, she murmur "yan ba defective!". She kept saying that for days, when I noticed she stopped, I started shouting it to mock her "yan ba defective!"
Diyan din sa NAIAx hindi ma-scan RFID ko dati na nakadikit sa headlight. Isa lang attendant diyan takbo siya palipat lipat. Sa araw-araw na dumadaan ako diyan, ni-tag niya ung sasakyan ko (nakalimutan ko na kung ano ung tagging). Kaya pinapalitan ko na ng nakadikit sa windshield (may charge P200+) plus balance transfer.
Frankly, I think the staff would prefer the RFID tags not to work from time to time, otherwise they'd be out of work!![]()
que 100 percent mabasa or not, there is always someone occupying the tollbooth.
heh heh heh.
Last edited by dr. d; April 5th, 2024 at 09:49 PM.
I think SCTEX uses your license plate number instead of the RFID sticker. Wala na yung rfid ko but the toll booth would open the barrier and show me my balance even without bringing out my card.
Applied for an Autosweep Go account at C5/SLEX. Installer mounted the RFID inside the windshield. Windshield has light VKool casa tint.
Result: 0 successful reads from 4 different gates. Kahit yung gate mismo sa unahan lang ng C5/SLEX office nila di mabasa![]()
Yeah VKool is metallic. The tint is like a faraday cage around your car.
Even phone signal goes down and that's with an active radio.
The RFID tag is just a passive device so it's even weaker.
Yup it's most probably the tint. Natawa lang ako sa installer. Gabi na kasi and mukhang sya na lang mag-isa. Cashier, account opening, install, etc. And they wonder why humahaba ang pila sa tollgate tsk.
My EasyTrip RFID was removed from my car's windshield after replacing the tint. I plan to get a replacement for the EasyTrip RFID next week and have my Autosweep account integrated with it. Today I just found out I don't need to do this.
I went to Tagaytay this morning via SLEX and CALAX. Upon exiting CALAX going to sta rosa tagaytay road, I was surprised that the RFID scanner was able to charge my EasyTrip account. It looks like my Autosweep RFID account was automatically enrolled to my EasyTrip.
Sweet!