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VisionLink RCX Firmware
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4. Release the button and allow the LED to turn off.
5. Push and hold the button, allow the LED to start blinking, and release the button after the correct number of blinks
for the first digit; repeat for each digit.
For example, for a configuration code of 2-1:
a) First, hold the button for two blinks and release it.
b) Then, hold the button for one blink and release it.
6. Watch what happens after you enter the configuration code. If the code is valid, the extender will display the code
as a pattern of blinks. If the pattern is not what you want, or if the pattern is two fast, two slow, and two fast blinks
(an error code), start over from Step 1.
7. To verify that the extender is working properly, watch the status code (see Status on page 10 ).
8. If you changed the operating mode, relabel the extender to prevent confusion later.
Firmware
Each extender is preconfigured with EDT firmware which controls its operation. EDT provides periodic firmware updates
which currently must be performed onsite at EDT. If you are notified that an update is available or needed, contact EDT.
Transceivers
The VisionLink RCX extender supports various types of small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers with matching
multimode fiber (MMF) or single mode fiber (SMF), as shown in
Table 4 .
NOTE To secure the transceiver and its cabling – e.g., in high vibration settings – see Adapter Cabling, Mounting,
Safetying on page 9 .
Alternatively, the following transceivers are available as options...
• Single fiber (bidirectional) transceivers – distances up to 60 km: These have an integrated passive optical multi-
plexer and transmit data in each direction over one fiber using different colors of light – especially useful when going
through an optical rotary joint.
• CWDM transceivers – extended range of 5 km or more, 1310 nm, single-fiber PON: These use up to 16 different
colors of light, with the light split and combined by passive optical multiplexers that are external to the extender.
They support up to twelve different cameras simultaneously over a single fiber.
• DualTX and DualRX transceivers: In full mode, these are used on the secondary Camera Link connector because
it must carry twice as much data as the primary connector.
Typically, it is easiest to connect all transceivers using LC duplex fiber. However, if you wish to use fewer fibers, in some
atypical cases it is possible to do so – for example, when using single-fiber (bi-directional) transceivers, as above.
Table 4. Trans fiber combinations
Wavelength Cable Range at
1.250 Gb/s
Range at
2.500 Gb/s
Range at
3.125 Gb/s
70 meters 850 nm
150 meters 850 nm
62.5-micron MMF (OM1)
50-micron MMF (OM3)
9-micron SMF
1310 nm 4 kilometers
150 meters
300 meters
5 kilometers
300 meters
550 meters
10 kilometers