APC Battery Management System manual

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

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Local access to the control console. You can use a local computer, a computer that connects to the Battery Management System through the serial port, to access the control console.

1.Select a serial port at the local computer and disable any service which uses that port.

2.Connect the serial cable (940-0103) that came with the Battery Management System to the RS-232/485 port on the Battery Management Unit and a serial port on your local computer.

Modbus and the control console share a common serial port. You can use either one or the other to access the Battery Management System. If you reconfigure the DIP switches to switch from Modbus to the control console, you must restart the computer for the changed to take effect.

If you are using Modbus to access the Battery Management System, you must configure the DIP switches. For DIP switch configuration, see “Configure the DIP Switches” in the Installation and Quick Start Manual (.\doc\en\insguide.pdf), provided in

See also Portable Document Format (PDF) on the APC Battery Management System Utility CD and in printed form.

3.Run a terminal program (such as HyperTerminal) and configure the selected port for 9600 bps or 19200 (depending on the speed configured for Modbus), 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, and no flow control. Save the changes.

4.Press ENTER twice to display the User Name prompt.

5.Enter your user name and password (apc by default).

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