Rs-422 serial port (on card cage) – Gilderfluke&Co BR-ANA Analog Output Smart/Dumb Brick User Manual
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G) RS-422 Serial Port (on Card Cage)
(RJ-12 or RJ-45 Connector)
This is used for configuration, uploading and downloading configurations,
status enquiries, AutoDownloading show data to Flash memory, and serial
port RealTime updates. It is compatible with all the RS-422 Serial Ports and
protocols used on Gilderfluke & Company products.
The four active lines on this connector are bussed to the backplane of the
card cage. This allows you to communicate to a whole card cage full of Br-
ANAs, 'Smart' Brick Brains, Electronic FeedBack (EFB) 'Smart' Bricks and
other cards through the connector on the card cage. They just need to be
set to different addresses.
The serial data signals from the Br-ANA are brought out on a six position
RJ-12 (six position, six conductor modular telephone style connector) on the
card cage. Facing the end of the cable with the release latch upwards, its pin
out is as follows:
POSITION
WIRE #
COLOR
SIGNAL NAME:
LEFT
RIGHT
1
white
Signal Ground
2
black
- Serial data out from card
3
red
+ Serial data out from card
4
green
- Serial data in to card
5
yellow
+ Serial data in to card
6
blue
Ground
Computers donʼt normally come with serial ports on them anymore. In-
stead, you use a USB-to-Serial (
r
adapter,
BlueTooth-to-Serial (
and
Ethernet-to-Serial
(
adapter, or WiFi-to-Serial
) adapter. For the
Br-ANA you will need one that provides a RS-422 connection, instead of the
more common RS-232. These are available from a number of different
sources, including Gilderfluke & Company. Our part number is
for the USB-to-Serial adapter. It provides both RS-232 and RS-422 con-
nections.
The Br-ANA expects to see the serial data in the following format:
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