Sooo, as expected, this this isn’t worth it’s weight in saw dust.
Check out these tolerances.
Comes with the reader and some RGB LEDs. Both have USB for power. I guess you are supposed to use the only two USB slots they give you…the ones on the side that are supposed to be used for charging your phone.
As @Pilgrimsmaster called it, the read distance on x series is about 3mm. Never going to get a read through the MDF. Oddly the instructions seem to indicate to put batteries in the unit AND plug it in which seems odd. They do not provide batteries.
I thought maybe I could just interface a xAC to the existing lock, but then I’m reminded about how bad the rest of this thing is. Well really it’s just the drawer and the lack of power though the latter could be corrected easy enough. The drawer front that is so obviously out of square is not so easy to fix, and of course it’s the most obvious part of the thing other than maybe the top surface.
I wonder if walmart will take it back partially assembled.