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V: 1.0 Revised: 9-9-2015

Pg: 8

STANDALONE TRANSCEIVER

POWER CONNECTION

Connection for the 7-30Vdc power adapter.

Pin

RS485

Description

1

TX/RX+

Positive Transmission Line

2

TX/RX-

Negative Transmission Line

5

GND

Ground

DIP Switch

Switch 1 should always be in the ‘off’ position for half-duplex 
communication.

Switch 2 is for full-duplex communication. This switch should not be 
configured as most devices only support half-duplex communication.

RESET BUTTON

The reset button is used to reboot the transceiver. It is equivalent of power 
cycle the transceiver.

Pin 1

TX/RX+

Pin 2

TX/RX-

Pin 5

GND

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Summary of Contents for AcuMesh Wireless RS485

Page 1: ...AN SOLUTION Shop for Power Metering products online at 1 877 766 5412 www PowerMeterStore com...

Page 2: ...e following symbols in this manual and on Acuvim II series meters are used to provide warning of danger or risk during the installation and operation of the meters Electric Shock Symbol Carries inform...

Page 3: ...e Transceiver LEDs 7 2 4 Standalone Transceiver Power Connection 8 2 5 AXM Mesh Attaching to Acuvim II 9 2 6 AXM Mesh Configuring with Devices 9 Chapter 3 Advanced User Settings 10 3 1 AcuMesh Softwar...

Page 4: ...nges of retrofit applications LONGER RELIABLE COMMUNICATION The AcuMesh wireless system makes use of the Mesh network structure which allows each transceiver to act as extension points in the network...

Page 5: ...newable Energy Generation such as Solar PV Wind and etc Any network with device using RS485 communication with any protocols HARDWARE OVERVIEW AcuMesh is available as two types of transcievers these t...

Page 6: ...B dipole antennas RF Data Rate Up to 200 kb s Antenna Impedance 50 ohms unbalanced Networking and Security Supported Network Topologies Mesh point to point point to multipoint peer to peer Addressing...

Page 7: ...he RS485 network master device can be a PC PLC data acquisition server or gateway e g AcuLink 710 Data Acquisition Server The slave devices can be our Acuvim II series power meters or any other meter...

Page 8: ...s There are two sets of LED lights on the transceiver that indicate the transceivers behaviour The RSSI LED s indicate the signal strength of the incoming signal 3 LEDs ON Very Strong Signal 2 LEDs ON...

Page 9: ...1 should always be in the off position for half duplex communication Switch 2 is for full duplex communication This switch should not be configured as most devices only support half duplex communicat...

Page 10: ...in Protocol 2 please set Baud rate 2 and Parity 2 to 9600 and None1 respectively CONFIGURATION WITH OTHER DEVICES For other meters or devices that communicate through a RS485 port the devices must hav...

Page 11: ...work configuration 1 OPEN SOFTWARE Open the AcuMesh software The following screen will appear The AcuMesh RS485 wireless network set up is complete You are now able to communicate wirelessly with all...

Page 12: ...ver 2 LOCATE TRANSCEIVER To begin the software will need to locate the transceiver that is connected to the computer s USB port Click on the to discover the Com port that the transceiver is connected...

Page 13: ...ation and settings related to the transceiver under the Radio Configuration view NOTE To configure a remote transceiver in the network the transceiver needs to be in remote control mode More informati...

Page 14: ...e Network ID to communicate with each other Transceivers with different Network ID will not be able to join the wireless network EE Encryption Enable This parameter is for enabling an encryption for t...

Page 15: ...dentified in the network when searching for transceivers By default no identifier is assigned to the transceivers SH Serial Number High A read only parameter for returning the upper 32 bits of the 64...

Page 16: ...this parameter must be set in AT Communication Mode 0 To configure an individual transceiver this parameter must be set to AP1 Remote Control Mode 1 D7 RS485 Configuration If the transceiver is conne...

Page 17: ...Parity for the serial communication Default is None 1 SB Stop Bits Number of stop bits used in the serial communication Default is one stop bit To discover other transceivers within the network press...

Page 18: ...r in the pop up box Press Add Selected Devices Once added these remote devices will appear under the local standalone transceiver and will be denoted as remote modules NOTE By default these remote mod...

Page 19: ...lect the remote module you wish to configure and its information will load under the radio configuration view NOTE The settings for the remote modules are identical to that of the local transceiver Sh...

Page 20: ...k ID so that the local and remote modules can communicate To configure a remote module from default settings Modify the network ID in the remote transceiver Modify the network ID in the local transcei...

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