Ptu Options; Eio Option: Expansion Serial Ports And Control; Networking; Basic Networking Setup Steps - FLIR PTU-D300 User Manual

PTU OPTIONS

6.1 EIO Option: Expansion Serial Ports and Control

For OEM applications, internal D300 wiring can be brought out on FFC (flat flex connectors)
to provide for additional control signals. For example, other serial devices attached or proximal to
the pan-tilt may require other RS232 serial ports. Please contact FLIR Commercial Systems, Inc.
for additional information on these custom configurations.
The PTU lets you connect up to 127 PTUs to a single host computer port. Your host computer
can then address each PTU on the network as though the PTU were the only unit attached to the
host. In this way, it is simple to migrate existing code developed for a single PTU to a network of
PTUs controlled by a single host computer.
This section describes the basic installation and setup steps required to network your pan-tilt
units.

7.1 Basic Networking Setup Steps

The steps in networking your PTUs to your host computer are:
1. Sketch out the physical placement of your PTUs and host computer.
2. Assign a unique network ID number to each PTU.
3. Connect the PTUs and host computer to the PTU network.
4. Test the configuration by addressing each PTU by its unit ID and commanding and querying
its attached pan-tilt unit.
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6 PTU OPTIONS

7 NETWORKING

PTU-D300 User's Manual (v2.19)