About Expansion Options
About Option Cards
JACE-6 Mounting and Wiring Instructions
Part Number 10821
Published: April 19, 2007
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About Expansion Options
The JACE-6 provides for
field-installable
expansion with two kinds of options:
•
Option cards
—Install on connectors inside the JACE-6 base unit. See
•
Accessory modules
—To “chain” onto the JACE-6’s 20-pin connector. See
About Option Cards
The JACE-6 has two (2) option slots for custom option cards designed for use with the JACE-6. Each slot has
a 30-pin connector on the JACE-6 base board. See
Warning
Power to the JACE-6 must be OFF when installing or removing option cards, or damage will occur!
Also, you must be very careful to plug an option card into its connector properly (pins aligned).
Option cards typically provide additional communications features, such as the following available models
(with others still in development) listed in
.
Mounting Option Cards
For complete details, see the mounting & wiring instructions document that accompany the specific option card.
The following procedure provides a basic set of steps.
Table 1
JACE-6 option cards.
Model
Description
Notes
NPB-LON
FTT-10A LON (LonWorks) adapter
with a 2-position removable
screw-terminal connector plug.
Up to 2 LON option cards may be installed.
•
If one LON option, it operates as LON1, regardless of slot.
•
If two LON options, LON1 is Option slot 1, LON2 is Option slot 2.
NPB-2X-485
Dual, optically-isolated, RS-485
adapter with two 3-position
removable screw-terminal connector
plugs.
One or two 485 option cards may be installed, with COM assignments as:
•
If one 485 option in Option slot 1, ports are COM3 and COM4.
COM3 and COM4 if installed in Option slot 2 also, unless NPB-232
option is in slot 1. In this case only, 485 ports are COM4 and COM5.
•
If two 485 options, ports are COM3 and COM4 for Option slot 1,
and COM5 and COM6 for Option slot 2.
NPB-MDM
56Kbps Auto-dial/Auto-answer
Modem with one RJ-11 connector for
phone line.
Maximum of one. Does not have own UART (unlike NPB-2X-485 or
NPB-232). Must be installed in Option slot 1, where it operates as COM1.
This disables the RS-232 base serial port (DB-9 connector) on the JACE-6
during normal operation.
Note:
If an NPB-MDM is installed, and the “mode jumper” (see
is put in “Serial Shell” position, the JACE-6 base RS-232 port becomes
active immediately following a reboot. This allows an RS-232 connection
to the “serial shell” for debugging purposes. To re-enable the modem, you
must put the mode jumper back in the “Normal” position, and reboot again.
NPB-232
Single port RS-232 adapter, with a
DB-9M connector. Uses its own
on-board UART. Supports baud rates
up to 115200.
Note:
NiagaraAX 3.2.11 or higher
needed in the JACE-6.
One or two 232 option cards may be installed, with COM assignments as:
•
If one 232 option in Option slot 1, port is COM3. Port is COM3 if installed
in Option slot 2 also, unless NPB-485 option is in Option slot 1. In this
case only, 232 port is COM5.
•
If two 232 options, ports are COM3 for Option slot 1, and COM4 for
Option slot 2.
