Part Number 100-00191Revision 1.01
Page 1: ...MCU500 Mobile Locator and Control Unit Hardware Reference Manual...
Page 2: ...Part Number 100 00191 Revision 1 01...
Page 3: ...ted and maintained in accordance with the written procedures described herein and should not be used for any purpose that involves the safety of life or limb and should not form any part of a life sup...
Page 4: ...Revision 1 01 Date 5 April 2001 Reference Pendragon documents Manuals Products mcu500 Hardware 100 00191 rev 101 wpd...
Page 5: ...Document Revision History Date Revisio n Initial s Description 26 11 2000 1 00 MJT New document 05 04 2001 1 00 MJT Revised jumper settings and fixed typos...
Page 6: ...as 7 4 Interfaces and connectors 8 4 1 Power and input outputs 8 4 2 COM1serial port 9 4 3 COM2 serial port 9 4 4 Auxiliary port 10 4 5 GPS antenna connector 11 5 Maintenance and trouble shooting 12 5...
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Page 8: ...allows the MCU500 to perform as a high performance vehicle location unit with intelligent rules based position updating The unit incorporates a high efficiency switched mode power supply to minimise p...
Page 9: ...dware Reference Manual MCU500 Mobile Locator Control Unit 2 Revision 1 01 100 00191 Description Thorcom Part Number MCU500 Software Reference 100 00184 Modem Personality Programmer User Manual 100 001...
Page 10: ...V operation WARNING Connection of supply voltage outside of specification may cause damage to the unit this is not covered by the product warranty 2 2 System memory size The MCU500 can be equipped wit...
Page 11: ...for the serial ports COM1 and COM2 and an RJ45 connector for the auxillary port 2 4 1 Front panel layout The front panel of the MCU500 is shown below 2 4 2 Status LEDs The MCU500 has four LEDs used f...
Page 12: ...tor Control Unit Nam e Colo ur Description 100 00191 Revision 1 01 5 SVC Yellow Permanently lit to indicate that a good connection is made with the radio device Flashes to indicate that the personalit...
Page 13: ...ission or transmissions and then go back to sleep When sleeping the unit draws only a few hundred micro amps from the power source This permits operation from a battery for example if the unit were to...
Page 14: ...ex connector Molex part number 39 01 2120 on the front panel Thorcom cable part number 70 00169 for power supply only is available with three pins pre wired with 3m long leads as follows Pin Nam e Col...
Page 15: ...transceiver to a PC laptop serial port this cable can probably be used with the MCU500 The 9 way ports on the MCU500 are pin compatible with standard PC serial COM ports Please consult sections 4 and...
Page 16: ...CU500 The MCU500 s internal GPS receiver module requires a standard antenna on the GPS L1 frequency 1575 42MHz with an active pre amplifier with 26dB gain powered from 5V DC from the cable A passive a...
Page 17: ...eference Manual MCU500 Mobile Locator Control Unit Panorma Part Number Description 10 Revision 1 01 100 00191 GPSM SMBP GPS only mag mount 6m cable SMB fitted GPSP SMBP GPS only panel mount 6m cable S...
Page 18: ...cket Auxiliary connector for RS485 serial port analogue input and additional digital inputs GPS SMB RF socket Antenna connector to the internal GPS receiver 4 1 Power and input outputs This connector...
Page 19: ...tandard DB9 male connector configured as a DTE with a pin out which is compatible with an IBM PC AT serial port Pi n Na me Description 1 DCD Data Carrier Detect input 2 RXD Receive Data input 3 TXD Tr...
Page 20: ...TL CMOS 5V levels or inverted TTL CMOS levels selected by internal jumpers This allows the communications port to be used with a wide range of data communications providers devices including those wit...
Page 21: ...6 or RTCM SC104 RS232 differential correction data input to GPS receiver jumper selectable 8 GND Ground Notes 1 The RS485 port may be operated in half duplex or full duplex mode 2 The RS485 convertor...
Page 22: ...nnector internally and replace when reassembling To re assemble the MCU500 follow the same procedures in the reverse order Do NOT overtighten the GPS antenna nut finger tight plus turn is sufficient O...
Page 23: ...that the GPS antenna is plugged in Check that after approximately 20 seconds from turning the power on that the NAV Naviating LED flashes on off once per second If the NAV light remains off then ther...
Page 24: ...Hardware Reference Manual MCU500 Mobile Locator Control Unit 100 00191 Revision 1 01 17 The user configuration personality is programmed using the Modem Personality Programmer MPP software...
Page 25: ...MCU500 has the following user selectable jumpers Jump er Name Description JP3 COM2 Settings Select the voltage levels of COM2 between RS232 TTL and Inverted TTL JP4 Input 2 Mode Select Select between...
Page 26: ...lly in the bottom left hand corner of the PCB Voltage Level JP3 RS232 TTL Inverted TTL Nokia MBus 6 2 Analogue input mode selection For MCU500 units that have been manufactured with an analogue input...
Page 27: ...EPROM or 27E512 EEPROM 64K 29F040 FLASH EPROM 6 4 RJ45 pin assignments The MCU500 has more I O capability than actual physical connections and so to remain as flexible as possible it is possible to ch...
Page 28: ...connector is on the right hand side JP7 can be found running horizontally along the top left hand side of the PCB Time Interval JP7 2 5 Hours 5 Hours 10 Hours 20 Hours 40 Hours 6 6 COM3 RS232 RS485 se...
Page 29: ...ardware Reference Manual MCU500 Mobile Locator Control Unit 22 Revision 1 01 100 00191 COM3 Levels JP8 RJ45 is RS232 RJ45 is RS485 Full Duplex Note Link 13 14 is effectively a half full duplex selecto...
Page 30: ...port with TXD RXD RTS CTS DCD DTR and GND Voltage selectable between RS232 TTL Inverted TTL and Nokia M bus COM3 RJ45 with RS232 TXD and RXD only or half full duplex RS485 Internal GPS receiver Trimb...
Page 31: ...55 Celsius Storage temperature 20 to 70 Celsius Humidity 0 90 non condensing Mean Time Between Failure MTBF 70 000 Power On Hours POH calculated to MIL 217E Errors and omissions accepted Thorcom Syst...
Page 32: ...Connections to the MCU500 shall be less than 3 0m in length The MCU500 complies with the protection requirements of the EMC directive 89 336 EEC providing that it is installed operated and maintained...
