Acuity Controls nLight Pocket Manual

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Pocket Guide

This pocket guide will help you quickly and easily get your nLight® devices

connected and operating.

The guide includes:

• Basic terminology

• Expected, out-of-the-box functionality

• Bus power budget considerations

• Connecting devices to create an nLight Control Zone

• How to inter-connect multiple Control Zones using nLight Backbone

devices

• Troubleshooting tips

• Installation Do's and Don'ts

The guide assumes:

1. A basic familiarity with nLight products and concepts

2. Familiarity with CAT-5e cabling and terminations

3. nLight devices are installed and wired to line voltage per device datasheets

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Page 1 Pocket Guide This pocket guide will help you quickly and easily get your nLight® devices connected and operating. The guide includes: • Basic terminology • Expected, out-of-the-box functionality • Bus power budget considerations • Connecting devices to create an nLight Control Zone •...
Page 2 With as little as a switch or sensor and a Power Pack wired to others consume it. Most nLight devices use only 3-4 mA, some up to ~8mA; lights, you can create a perfectly functional nLight Control Zone.
Page 3 Daisy-chain (linear) topology is strongly recommended, however use of splitters is allowed if the cable run is short. Control zones can have a maximum of 128 nLight devices wired together in any order on a single bus of CAT-5e cables. The maximum cable length for a zone is 1500 feet.
Page 4 5 Blinks Too many Adds/Deletes on the port. Reset the Bridge. 4. Plug in one nLight zone at a time to the Bridge. Check that the Gateway’s device count increments by the number of devices in 6 Blinks Two Bridge ports are cabled together, creating a Bridge each zone added.
Page 5 DO leave a short service loop at the end of each cable run. DO NOT damage the jacket or overstress the conductors. DO NOT exceed 1500 feet CAT-5e per nLight Control Zone. DO check the port for debris or bent pins before inserting connector.