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• The PC's RF400 needs its own 12 VDC supply.
• This network behaves the same as the ‘minimum network’.
• You can install a Neighbor Filter in CR10XPB making it a ROUTER and
add CR205s to the network. By so doing you would end up with the Quick
Start network described in Section 2 of this guide.
3.1.4 Minimum + Phone Modem + RF400 Network
Adding a telephone modem link for the first hop:
PC
(LoggerNet)
{Phone
Modem}
RF400 Series
CR10XPB
RF400 Series
COM210
or
CR200 Series
CS I/O
null-modem
• LoggerNet’s Setup device map now looks like this:
ComPort_1
PhoneBase
PhoneRemote
PakBusPort
CR10XPB
• If the RF400’s Active Interface is configured for “COM2xx to RF400” a
PS100 and an A100 will be needed to power the two peripherals and
provide a CS I/O null modem. Or the RF400 Active Interface can be set for
CSDC (7) and a PakBus datalogger connected along with the COM210.
• Alternatively, for TCP/IP communications substitute an NL100 for the
COM210 and an IPPort in LoggerNet instead of the COM port.
• Multidrop communications could be used substituting a pair of MD485s
for the PC modem and COM210. An RS-485 twisted pair cable connects
MD485s. Additional MD485s with dataloggers can be added. Remember
to give each datalogger a unique PakBus Address.
3.1.5 Interface/ Com Port Considerations
A PakBus datalogger can interface to a communications peripheral using the
protocols listed below. The CR23XPB, CR200 Series, and NL100 have an RS-
232 port.
• Modem Enabled
Non-CRBasic PakBus dataloggers support M.E. (modem enabled)
communications (like non-PakBus dataloggers, only one M.E. device can
be connected to a datalogger).
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