10
Daisy-Chained Operation
(continued)
Adding Slave Units
This assumes you already have a MASTER unit (or MASTER and slave units) set-up and
working properly. Below is the procedure of daisy-chaining a new slave unit.
• Set the DIP switches of the slave unit to a unique slave BANK setting.
• Connect the computers using the same procedure outlined in steps 5 to 9 in the
previous section. DO NOT POWER UP THE COMPUTERS YET.
• Connect the power supply to the
Omni
View
™
SE, and plug it into any available AC
outlet. This is necessary to initialize the unit. You will see the LED display on the
front panel show the unit’s bank address setting.
• Using the F1D108-CBL daisy-chain cable, connect one end to the "Master Input /
Slave Output" of the unit. Refer to the diagram above.
❑
If the previous unit is the MASTER, then the other end of the cable
connects to the "Master Input/Slave Output" port of the MASTER (such as
cable 1 in the diagram above).
❑
If the previous unit is a slave, then the other end goes to the "Slave Input"
port of the previous slave unit (such as cables 2 and 3 in the
diagram above).
• RESET the MASTER unit by pressing the BANK/SCAN and CHANNEL buttons
simultaneously. This is necessary for the MASTER unit to detect the newly added
slave unit.
• Verify that the MASTER unit has detected the new slave by pressing the
BANK/SCAN button. If it detected the new slave properly, the LED "1" on the new
slave unit will blink. If you have many slave units, you may have to press the
BANK/SCAN button a couple of times to cycle through the preexisting slave
units
before reaching the newly added unit.
• Now you can power up the computers connected to the newly added slave unit.
After all the computers have booted up, you may need to RESET the MASTER unit
again to detect the presence of powered computers on the new slave unit.
