Sea Tel DAC-2202, Installation And Operation Manual

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Diagnostic M&C Software Installation & Use DAC-2202 Antenna Control Unit
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Note: If you experience a communications fault, as evidenced by a RED communications LED, ensure your
communication settings are correct. If you are using a USB to Serial Adapter, verify the Com Port number
assigned to it is set correctly, ProgTerm restricts comport selections to up to COM20, if your adapter has
assigned a higher value you are required to reconfigure your port. Refer to you computer and/or USB to
Serial Adapter manual for detailed information on how to do this.
7.18. DacRemP Find Dac’s
The Find DACs dialog box is a UDP Broadcast (IP Port Number 3000) utility tool, used to identify and locate all Local
DAC2202/2302 Antenna Control Units running on the same Network (Subnet) as the client PC running the DacRemP
program.
Mouse click on “Tools>Find Local and Remote DACs
(UDP Broadcast)” or hit Ctrl+F on your PC’s keyboard
to bring up the Find DAC’s utility tool.
With the Port Number set to 3000, click on Find All
local DAC’s. All of the discovered ACU’s will display
their respective IP addresses the display window.
With the Port Number set to 3000 and the IP address
set to a known ACU IP address click on Find Specific
DAC. If properly connected, the IP address will be
shown as available in the display window.
Double mouse click on an IP address to open that
ACU’s internal HTML page. To open an TCP/IP based
connection to an ACU, click on Configure Port to open
up the Comm Ports dialog box.
7.19. Parameter Dump using DacRemP
DacRemP versions 1.00 or later provides a means to save all ACU, COMMIF, and PCU parameter settings into a text
file. This text file may be used to restore the parameter settings in the system to a known configuration. It is
important to verify all settings are correct and your system is operational prior to saving a parameter dump file. Use
the procedure(s) below to dump all of the parameter settings to a text file.
Under the Tools menu, Click on the Parameter Dump
button.