Placement Options; Software Installation Information; Pin Assignments And Cable Wiring - Moxa Technologies NPort 6450 Series Quick Installation Manual

Placement Options

The NPort 6450 can be placed flat on a desktop or other horizontal surface.
In addition, you may use the DIN-Rail or wall-mount options, as
illustrated below.

Software Installation Information

For the NPort's configuration, the default IP address of the NPort is
192.168.127.254. You may log in with the account name admin and
password moxa to change any settings to meet your network topology
(e.g., IP address) or serial device (e.g., serial parameters).
For software installation, download the relative utilities from Moxa's
website:
https://www.moxa.com/support/support_home.aspx?isSearchShow=1
• Download the NPort Windows Driver Manager and install it as the
driver to run with Real COM mode of the NPort Series.
• Execute NPort Windows Driver Manager; then map the virtual COM
ports on your Windows platform.
• You may refer to the DB9 Male pin assignment section to loop back
pin 2 and pin 3 for the RS-232 interface to carry out a self-test on the
device.
• Use HyperTerminal or a similar program (you may download Moxa's
program, called PComm Lite) to test whether the device is good or
not.

Pin Assignments and Cable Wiring

RS-232/422/485 Pin Assignments (male DB9)
Pin RS-232
1 DCD
2 RXD
3 TXD
4 DTR
5 GND
6 DSR
7 RTS
8 CTS
9 –
Wall-mount
RS-422/
4W RS-485
TxD-(A)
TxD+(B)
RxD+(B)
RxD-(A)
GND
–
–
–
–
2W RS-485
–
–
Data+(B)
Data-(A)
GND
–
–
–
–
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DIN Rail