Making cascade connections

The AdderLink AV series of products have been specifically designed to be flexible in order to support both your immediate and future needs for media streaming. In addition to the standard connections made from transmitters to receivers, you can also link extra transmitters to transmitters and/or receivers to receivers in order to provide more display/speaker outputs. These non-standard links are called cascade connections.

Important limitations when cascading

•There should never be more than three cascade connections between the primary transmitter (the one connected to the source PC) and any receiver. The cascade connections can all occur at the transmitter end or all at the receiver end (AV101 modules only) or at a mixture of both.

•The RS232 serial port of an AdderLink AV200 transmitter cannot be cascaded, therefore, if an AV200 transmitter is involved in a cascade, it should be placed as the primary transmitter, connected directly to the source PC system.

•Each cascade connection reduces the overall link length permissible from a transmitter to the final receiver in a branch. To calculate the recommended overall maximum link length for a branch, count the number of cascade connections between the primary transmitter and the final receiver in that branch. The effects of cascade connections on overall branch link lengths are as follows:

Number of cascade connections	Overall length of links for a branch
(in a branch)	(from transmitter to furthest receiver)
0	300m	(1000 feet)
1	250m	(800 feet)
2	200m	(650 feet)
3	175m	(600 feet)

Notes

The lengths of transmitter cascade (video) connections should never be longer than 2m (6 feet) and can be considered to have a negligible effect upon overall link lengths.

The maximum resolutions achievable are: 1600 x 1200 x 60Hz at 200m and 1280 x 1024 x 60Hz at 300m. If you are using lower resolutions then it may be possible to achieve longer transmission distances than shown in the above table although we do not recommend runs longer than 300m in any installation. If you are running shorter cables then it may be possible to use more cascades than shown in the above table.

Cascade connection examples

These examples demonstrate valid configurations and the effect of cascade connections upon overall link lengths:

	Cascade 1
	Branch 1
	RECEIVER
	STANDARD LINK
	RECEIVER
	Branch 2
	STANDARD LINK
TRANSMITTER	RECEIVER

Overall maximum length for link with 1 cascade: 250m

Overall maximum length for link with no cascades: 300m

	Cascade 3	Branch 1
		Branch 1
		RECEIVER
	Cascade 2
	RECEIVER
	Cascade 1
Primary	Cascade 3
Transmitter	Cascade 3	Branch 2
	RECEIVER	Branch 2
From PC		RECEIVER
STANDARD LINK		RECEIVER
	Cascade 2
TRANSMITTER	RECEIVER
Cascade 1	RECEIVER
	RECEIVER
STANDARD LINK
	Cascade 3	Branch 3
TRANSMITTER	RECEIVER	Branch 3
TRANSMITTER	RECEIVER
Cascade 2		RECEIVER
		RECEIVER
	STANDARD LINK
TRANSMITTER	RECEIVER
Overall maximum length for link with 3 cascades: 175m

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