MGE UPS Systems EX30, EX20, EX40 Status information, RS232/ASCII communication, Snmp communication

communication

status information

The "Basic" communications port 10 , located on the back of Pulsar EX, supplies information on the status of Pulsar EX. It consists of a SUB-D 9 female connector with the following pin-outs:

1 - earth,

4- operation on AC power,

5- common,

6- operation on "automatic bypass",

7- low-battery shutdown warning,

8- operation on UPS,

9- operation on battery.

	5	4	3	2	1	10
		9	8	7	6
n.c.	n.o.		n.o.		n.o.	n.o.
	common
Relay breaking capacity:
Vmax = 30V
Imax = 100mA
n.o. : normalement open,
n.c. : normalement closed

RS232/ASCII communication

The "U-Talk" communications port 11 (RS232 serial link), located on the back of Pulsar EX, supplies information supported by the exclusive MGE UPS SYSTEMS communications protocol.

Data supplied by this protocol can be analysed by Solution-Pac™ software.

RD TD

0V

5 4 3 2 1

11

9 8 7 6

You may use EX Driver software 18 to customise Pulsar EX to suit your operating conditions (EX Tuner), supervise your UPS and protect your system (UPS Manager 3.1). To install EX Driver, connect one end of the supplied communications cable to the serial port (declared as COM1 to COM4) of your computer and the other end to the port 11 on Pulsar EX. EX Tuner requires Windows

3.1or Windows 95 and may be used to set up the serial port on the computer. To install the software, insert the diskette and run A:\install. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen. Two software utilities will be installed:

c EX Tuner, which may be used to customise Pulsar EX;

c UPS Manager 3.1, for supervising and protecting your system.

SNMP communication

The communication port 13 located on the back of Pulsar EX, supplies SNMP- compliant data on an RJ45 connector.

The label on the top of the connector 13 gives the device’s MAC address.

0080C8ABAA01

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1	13
RD-	TD+
RD+	TD-

cyour MAC address is of the type: 0080C8 ZZ XX YY;

cyour IP default address is:

168.xx.yy (where xx and yy are the decimal values of XX and YY).

In the above example, the address IP 168.8.170.1 corresponds to the MAC address 0080C8 AB AA 01.

Please consult the user manual in the directory emb/ex/snmp/ex-i2c/release 3xx of the Solution-Pac™ CD-ROM to benefit from the administration potential of your Pulsar EX (SNMP version).

Contact your retailer for further details.

MGE UPS SYSTEMS Pulsar EX: 51032306XT/BB 27