Kramer Electronics 648 User Manual
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KRAMER: SIMPLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
Using the 648 FireWire 800/1394b Optical Repeater
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5 Using the 648 FireWire 800/1394b Optical Repeater
You can use your
648 FireWire 800/1394b Optical Repeater for various
applications. For example, you can connect your host computer to:
A remote peripheral device (see section 5.1)
Several surveillance cameras (see section 5.2)
IEEE 1394a standard devices (see section 5.3)
Before connecting and using your repeater, make sure that you have:
A 1394a or 1394b controller (properly installed) with a DS/bilingual port
on your PC or Mac system
Correctly installed the drivers of the devices you are about to connect on
your host computer
5.1 Connecting the 648 to a Peripheral Device
1
To set up the
648 FireWire 800/1394b Optical Repeater units, as the example
in Figure 3 illustrates, do the following
2
:
1. Identify one
648 unit as upstream
3
and the other one as downstream
4
.
2. Connect the upstream unit to the downstream unit, using the duplex LC patch
cord fiber-optic cable
5
in the following way:
The Tx (upstream
3
) to the Rx (downstream
4
)
The Rx (upstream
3
) to the Tx (downstream
4
)
3. Connect the FireWire port on the host computer to the PORT 1 9-pin FireWire
connector
6
on the upstream
3
648 unit, using a copper FireWire cable.
4. Connect the downstream
4
PORT 1 9-pin FireWire connection
6
, to the
FireWire port of the peripheral device.
1 Such as a video camcorder, a scanner, a hard disk drive and so on
2 Not all ports need to be connected. Any unused port should simply be left unconnected
3 The host computer side
4 The peripheral device side
5 A multi-mode glass optical fiber with a 62.5/125 m or a 50/125 m core
6 Or PORT 2