TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Precautions Read these instructions You should read all the safety and operating instructions before using this product. Heed all warnings You must adhere to all the warnings on the product and in the instruction manual. Failure to follow the safety instruction given may directly endanger people, cause damage to the system or to other equipment.
TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Safety Instructions Don’t use the power supply with other voltages If you use a power supply with different voltage than the one included with this device, this device may be damaged or inflict damage upon other equipments / personnel. All warranty of this product will be voided in the situations above.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual 4) If the video product does not operate normally by following the operating Instructions in this manual. Adjust only those controls that are covered by the instruction manual, as an improper adjustment of other controls may result in damage, and will often require extensive work by a qualified technician to restore the video product to its normal operation.
TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Physical Description 1) Video Input Connect an analog camera using BNC connector. 2) Serial Port Connection via Terminal Block Connect a serial port device to the supplied terminal block. See Serial Port Connection page 11 for connection details.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual 4) Power LED The LED will light up after device has successfully completed the boot process 5) Serial Port LED LED will light up when serial port is active 6) Power Input Connect the power adaptor here if your power input is DC12V.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Restore to Default Power On Complete On (3s) Off (about 15s) Off (10~15s) Stay On About 20 Seconds 8) Terminal Blocks for Digital Input / Output The IP device supports one alarm input and one transistor output. Please connect DI with Pin 1 and 3 and connect DO with Pin 2 and 4.
TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Basic Connections Follow the procedures below to connect the IP device to the respective apparatuses. 1) Connect an analog camera to the IP device video in (BNC connector). 2) Connect the power adaptor to the IP device.
TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Serial Port Connection If the analog camera supports functions like pan-tilt, zoom, etc., use the serial port to connect the cables/pins of the analog camera to the IP device and use either RS-485, RS-422, or RS-232 to control these functions.
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CAUTION: Incorrect wiring may cause damage to the connected devices. DISCLAIMER: ACTi will not be responsible for any damage caused by improper wiring. 3. Connect a ground wire to one of the GND terminal pins of the IP device (via Power or DI/P terminals) to complete the connection.
TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Accessing the Device Configure the IP Address In order to be able to communicate with the device from your PC, both the device and the PC have to be within the same network segment. In most cases, it means that they both should have very similar IP addresses, where only the last number of the IP address is different from each other.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual When the left mouse is clicked on the device model name, the default browser of the PC is automatically launched and the IP address of the target device is already filled in the address bar of the browser.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Use the default IP address of the device If there is no DHCP server in the given network, the user may have to manually assign the IP addresses to both the PC and the device to make sure they are in the same network segment.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Manually adjust the IP addresses of multiple devices If there are more than one device to be used in the same local area network and there is no DHCP server to assign unique IP addresses to each of them, all of the devices would then have the initial IP address of 192.168.0.100, which is not a proper situation for network...
TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Access the Device Now that the device and the PC both have their unique IP addresses and are under the same network segment, you can use Microsoft Internet Explorer on the PC to access the device. Note: Only Microsoft Internet Explorer is supported by the device at the time of writing this documentation.
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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual Upon successful connection to the device, the user interface called Web Configurator would appear together with the login page. The HTTP port number was not added behind the IP address since the default HTTP port of the device is 80, which can be omitted from the address for convenience.
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