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Rs-232 cable connections, Single tuner, Multiple tuners – Contemporary Research 232-STSi V 4.5 User Manual

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RS-232 Cable Connections

Single Tuner

5 GND
2 RXD
3 TXD

RXD 2

GND 5

TXD 3

Control Wiring – Single Unit

9-pin D-sub

female

RS-232

Control Port

Channel Up 4

Channel Down 9

RS-232 wiring for control or programming should only use pins 2, 3, 5. Cables with all pins wired can
lock out front-panel programming and data communication (Pins 4 and 9 are inputs).

Multiple Tuners

Up to nine tuners can be daisy-chained from one RS-232 control port. Remember that you will need to
use the Unit# address in your programming when you control more than one tuner from the same
control port.
Set the first unit in the RS-232 chain to the highest Unit#, then wire in sequence to the last tuner in
the chain. The reason for this is that CR tuners use an intelligent data bus - the highest number tuner
receives all commands, and then passes on commands addressed to tuners with lower unit numbers.
The next tuner in the chain does the same, and so on until the last unit.

5 GND
2 RXD
3 TXD

RXD 2

GND 5

RS-232 Wiring – Two Units

Unit 2

9-pin D-sub

female

RS-232

Control Port

Unit 1

9-pin D-sub

female

TXD 3

GND 5

TXD 3

RXD 2

5 GND
2 RXD
3 TXD

RXD 2

GND 5

TXD 3

RS-232 Wiring – Three Units

Unit 3

9-pin D-sub

female

RS-232

Control Port

Unit 2

9-pin D-sub

female

Unit 1

9-pin D-sub

female

TXD 3

GND 5

GND 5

TXD 3

RXD 2

RXD 2

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