Control-Box - Hardware Description; Front Panel Overview; Top Panel Overview - FALCOM FOX3-2G Series Getting Started

FOX3-2G/3G/4G/-4G-PROMOTION-KIT Getting Started

4 CONTROL-BOX - HARDWARE DESCRIPTION

This chapter gives you some information about the operation of the control box. It allows you to exercise
the function of all inputs and outputs on the FOX3-2G/3G/4G device without the need to add any other
external component to them.
The components on the control-box can be identified from the figures below showing the front, top, and
the rear panels.
4.1

Front panel overview

Figure 10:
A description of each of the items on the front panel is provided in Table 4.
Item Description
INPUT (12V – 32V)
Input power supply for control-box and FOX3-2G/3G/4G device with 1.1 A fuse protected.
Table 4:
4.2

Top panel overview

Figure 11:
A description of each of the items on the top panel is provided in Table 5.
Item Description
LED (+IN) Lights when the +IN-switch is turned to ON.
LED (IGN) Lights when the IGN-switch is turned to ON.
+IN - switch This two-way-switch enables or disables power to the connected FOX3-2G/3G/4G unit. (To enable
power to the device, the Current- switch must be set to "ON")
IGN - switch This two-way-switch wakes up the FOX3-2G/3G/4G device from IGN-sleep mode and sets the IGN-pin
of the FOX3-2G/3G/4G to High or Low signal level for using the rising edge and falling edge events.
IO - switches These pins have dual functions. All are controlled by the internal firmware of FOX3-2G/3G/4G.
Therefore, the user must define whether to use them as analog or digital pins. The configured digital
pins can be inputs or outputs while the analog pins can only be inputs. Their function is controlled
with commands with $PFAL,IO0[1,2].Config=DI,1,10 or $PFAL,IO0[1,2].Config=AI,1,10 by changing
the electrical behaviour of the reference pin to digital or analogue input (DI = Digital input; AI =
Analogue input). These three-way switches (from IO/1 to IO/3) allow operation of the IOs either as
digital/analogue inputs or digital outputs. More details how to test these IOs, are given
Please note that, due to the the PROMOTION-KIT comes with all PREMIUM-FEATURE activated, the
IO2 and IO3 are activated for using the "CAN-INTERFACE". Only IO/1 remains free and can be used as
general purpose input/output pin. For more details please refer to the Related Documents
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Front panel of the control-box.
Front panel overview.
Top panel of the control-box.
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