Connecting The Emd - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

Chapter 8: Power and Environment
8.3.1

Connecting the EMD

The Environmental Monitoring Sensor (EMD) connects to any serial port on the Console Server via a special EMD Adapter and
standard CAT5 cable. The EMD is powered over this serial connection and communicates using a custom handshake protocol.
It is not an RS232 device and should not be connected without the adapter:
The EMD can be used only with a Console Server and cannot be connected to standard RS232 serial ports on other
appliances.
• Select Environmental as the Device Type in the Serial & Network: Serial Port menu for the port to which the EMD is
to be attached. No particular Common Settings are required.
• Click Apply
• Select the Serial & Network: Environmental menu. This will display all the EMD connections that have already been
configured
• Click Add
• Plug the RJ plug on the EMD Adapter (model B090-EMD-ADP) into RJ45 Port on the EMD
(model B090-EMD). Then connect the Console Server serial port to the RJ45 port of the
EMD Adapter using the provided UTP cable. If the 6 foot (2 meter) UTP cable provided with
the EMD is not long enough it can be replaced with a standard Cat5 UTP cable up to 33 feet
(10meters) in length (Tripp Lite N002 series cables)
• Screw the bare wires on any smoke detector, water detector, vibration sensor, open-door
sensor or general purpose open/close status sensors into the terminals on the EMD:
o B090-WLS
o B090-DCS
o B090-VS
o B090-SD-110 Console Server Smoke Detector - 110V
o B090-SD-220 Console Server Smoke Detector - 220V
Console Server Water Leak Sensor
Console Server Door Contact Sensor
Console Server Vibration Sensor
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