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SPC Installer/User Guide
To change a port’s minimum-off time value:
Position the cursor in the port’s Minimum-Off Time field and press the
Spacebar or the Plus ( + ) or Minus ( - ) key. Each press moves through preset
values to a one hour maximum.
The preset values are: 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds, 1 minute, 1 minute
15 seconds, 1 minute 30 seconds, 1 minute 45 seconds, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4
minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes and one hour.
Wake-up State field
The editable Wake-up State field indicates the state that the port will go to,
in sequence, when the SPC is powered up, either during normal operation
or when power is restored after an outage. The options are On and Off. The
default is On. When power is first supplied to the SPC, the ports are off. Shortly
after the SPC wakes up, the ports are sequenced on in two-second increments.
Only ports that are set with a wake-up state of Off will remain off.
To change a port’s wake-up state:
Position the cursor in the field and press the Spacebar , the Plus ( + ) key or the
Minus ( - ) key. Each press toggles between On and Off .
Group field
The editable Group field may contain a descriptive name. All ports with the
same group name may be acted upon simultaneously with the On, Off and
Reboot commands from the command line. Individual on, off and reboot
commands initiated on the control screen do not affect other ports that have
been assigned the same group name. Only command line actions that contain
the group name parameter will cause all ports within the same group to power
up, down or reboot as a group.
If you assign the same group name to a significant number of ports, consider
staggering the minimum-off time values of the affected ports to help prevent
an excessive in-rush load from occurring when a command is issued to reboot
the group.
To specify a group name:
1. Position the cursor in the port’s Group fi eld.
2. Press e . If you are changing an existing name, press the Backspace key to
erase characters. Type a 1-8 character name. Press Enter or Tab .