K5EXT300 300m Extender for USB and PS/2 eyboard, USB and PS/2 Mouse, VGA, Serial RS232, Audio and Microphone over Cat 5 UTP cable User Manual Date: 7/20/2007 Version : 130...
OMPUTER ODULE WITH OCAL ONSOLE ONNECTED TO THE COMPUTER INSTALLING THE EXTENDER....................6 K5EXT300, EFORE YOU INSTALL THE TWO PIECES OF YOU SHOULD HAVE THESE ITEMS ON THE : ........................... 6 CHECKLIST READY .......... 6 LAN THE LAYOUT PATH AND DEPLOY THE...
CAT 5 UTP cable, with satisfying video quality and audio output. K5EXT300 comprises two disparate units - K5LC and K5CMLC. K5LC is the local console unit, i.e., the receiver on one end of the UTP cable. K5CMLC is the computer module with local console, i.e. the transmitter on the other end of the UTP cable.
Front-panel and Rear Panel Views The back panels are where the various connectors are located on the two pieces of K5EXT300. Before you connect these two units to any computer, cabling or peripherals, you should get a glimpse of the main connectors you are going to encounter when setting up the system K5LC –...
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 Installing the Extender Before you install the two pieces of K5EXT300, you should have these items on the checklist ready: 1. The computer for extension should be one with either PS/2 or USB interfaces. 2. You should check the display mode of the computer to be within 1600 x 1200 pixel dimension. And refresh rate to be one that is more commonly used such as 60Hz, etc.
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 Configure the K5CMLC (Local) Step 3. Connect one end of the UTP cable to the CAT5 Extension port of the K5CMLC. (Connector n) Step 4. Connect the power adapter to the K5CMLC to power it up before connecting any computer or cables to it.
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 Using the OSD Menu The CAT5 KVM Extender provides intuitive OSD Menus facilitate control and setup operations. Users can set up the video, audio, serial extensions as well as password protection, auto logout, etc. To open the OSD Menu, hit the following keyboard hotkeys: Hotkey sequence = [ScrLk] + [ScrLk] + Space...
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 OSD Menu/Video Page The Video page allows you to adjust the video parameters such as brightness, sharpness, Red Delay and Green Delay. The ranges of adjustment of these parameters are Brightness: 0 ~ 64 Sharpness: 0 ~ 64 Red Delay/Blue: -31 ~ +31...
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 OSD Menu/Status Page The Status page displays the firmware versioning information of the K5LC and the K5CMLC. The versioning number is actually a date code, which has the form of DDMMYY. OSD Menu/Serial Page The Serial page allows you to set up the serial connection extension. It must correspond to the computer settings.
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 OSD Menu/System Page The System page allows you to set the hotkey, the OSD timeout, the Logout time, the password and to toggle the extender into the Firmware Upgrade mode. Hotkey: select the hotkey from among: Scroll; Cap; Num; F12; Esc OSD Timeout: Disable / Enable the OSD timeout (5~30 sec) Logout Time: Disable / Enable the Logout timeout (1~30min) Firmware Upgrade: Enter into firmware upgrade mode...
KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 Optimizing the Video Display on the Remote Console To achieve an optimized display output on the remote console (i.e. the K5LC) will require you to conscientiously adjust the various video parameters such as Brightness, Sharpness, Red Delay and Green Delay in an optimized combination that could most satisfy your visual requirements.
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KEXT300 User Manual Rev 1.3 III. Adjust the Red Delay and Green Delay Red, Green and Blue are the primary colors that constitute the VGA signal. Depending on the cable quality, these three colors may need slightly different times to travel from K5CMLC to K5LC. This phenomenon does not appear with short cables or very good cables.
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