Black Box ACX1000 Quick Setup, Installation, What’s Included, System Setup, Diagnostics

Models: ACX1000-CM ACX1000-MS ACX1000-DM ACX1000-MM Repeaters and Cross Repeaters ACX1000

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1. Quick Setup

ACX1000 Quick Start Guide

 

ACX1000 Quick Start Guide

ACX1000 Quick Start Guide

 

 

 

 

 

1. Quick Setup

This section briefly describes how to install your Repeater or Cross Repeater. Unless you are an experienced user, we recommend that you follow the procedures described in the rest of this guide.

2. Installation

For first-time users, we recommend that you carry out a test placement, confined to a single room, before installing it fully. This will enable you to identify and solve any cabling problems, and experiment with the Repeater/Cross Repeater more conveniently.

2.1 What’s Included

Your package should include the following items. If anything is missing or damaged, contact Black Box Technical Support at 724-746-5500 or info@blackbox.com.

Repeater/Cross Repeater

5-VDC universal power supply

U.S. power cord

This Quick Start Guide

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2.2 System Setup

To install your Repeater/Cross Repeater:

1.Switch off all devices.

2.Connect the interconnect cable to the local device’s interconnect socket and the repeater/cross repeater.

3.Connect the interconnect cable to the remote device’s interconnect socket and the repeater/cross repeater.

4.Connect the 5-VDC power supply to the repeater.

NOTE: Use only the power supply that you received with this unit or a manufacturer-approved replacement.

3.Hardware Description 3.1 Device Views

Figure 1. Repeater/cross repeater CATx view.

Figure 2. Repeater/cross repeater fiber view.

3.2 Diagnostics

Each repeater/cross repeater has three LED indicators: Power, Data Error, and Link Status. The Power LED is next to the power socket.

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Figure 3. Diagnostic LEDs on the repeater/

cross repeater.

Table 1. LED indicators and their functions.

LED

Setting

Description

Power (red)

Off

Device not ready

 

On

Device ready

Link Status

Blinking

No interconnect

(green)

 

connection via CATx

 

 

or fiber cable

 

On

Device ready

Data Error (green)

 

Not used

4. Service Setup

For most applications, you won’t need to make any adjustments to set up your repeater/cross repeater.

For some applications, you may need to open the repeater. Unscrew the UNC-type screws on both sides of the monitor connections. Put the lower and upper shells of the case aside.

Figure 4. Removing the screws.

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Black Box ACX1000 Quick Setup, Installation, What’s Included, System Setup, Hardware Description 3.1 Device Views