Quick Start Guide
EH-Link
™
Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node
Version
•
EH-Link
™
firmware 1.07
•
USB Base Station firmware 2.09
•
Node Commander
®
software 2.3.0
Starter Kit
The EH-Link
™
starter kit contains:
•
EH-Link
™
Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Node
•
USB Base Station with Antenna
•
Thermal Electric Generator (TEG)
•
Solar Demo Board
•
Node Commander
®
Software and Manuals CD (Windows
®
XP, Vista, 7)
•
9 volt Alkaline Battery
•
Battery Clip
•
EH-Link
™
1000 ohm Tester Board
•
1000 uF Capacitor
•
Small Screw Driver (for green terminal blocks)
Software Installation
•
Insert the Node Commander
®
software CD into your CD-ROM drive and follow the on-
screen instructions to install the software.
•
Launch Node Commander
®
software.
•
The Node Commander
®
Main screen will appear as shown in
Figure 1
.
Base Station Installation
•
Install the antenna on the USB Base Station.
•
Plug the USB Base Station into any USB port on your PC.
•
The blue LED on the Base Station will illuminate continuously.
•
After a moment Node Commander
®
will recognize the Base Station and display it as
Base
Station Com X
in the Controller frame as shown in
Figure 1
.
•
Note:
The
X
, as shown in the figure, indicates the communication port number to which
the Base Station has been assigned. In our example we see communication port 16.
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