Installing The Equipment; Hardware Interface; Figure 1. The Backplane Of The Rx8200 Including Remote Data Card - Ericsson RX8 Series Manual

Supported Alteia Protocol Commands and Messages
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Installing the Equipment

Do not remove the covers of this equipment. Hazardous voltages are present within
this equipment and may be exposed if the covers are removed. Only Ericsson AB
trained and approved service engineers are permitted to service this equipment.
2.1

Hardware Interface

There is a single hardware port available on the back plane of the RX8200 IRD for the
Serial Remote Control, if the Remote Data (Legacy) Card is present. The port is
denoted with RS232/RS485 Remote.
The serial communication mode can be Half-Duplex and Full-Duplex.
The Remote Control Port supports the RS-232 and RS-485 serial interfaces. The
electrical characteristics for the interface must be selected between RS-232 or RS-485
via one of the user interfaces. (See User interfaces in Chapter 2.2)
RS-485 is intended for controlling multiple IRDs from a single controller. The Alteia
protocol includes addressing capabilities and will operate with both RS-232 and
RS-485.
Default configuration:
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Figure 1. The backplane of the RX8200 including Remote Data Card
Remote address:
Remote interface:
Remote duplexity:
Warning!
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RS-232
Half duplex
Document No. ST.TS.EXXXXX.1 2010-03-04