Minicom Advanced Systems DX System manual ,

USER GUIDE
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DX Central
1st level
DX Central units
Secondary level
To User
ports
To Server
ports
Ethernet
Straight cable
Network Hub / Switch
To User
ports
Ethernet
Straight cable
Ethernet
Straight
cable
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ETHERNET
SERIAL
SERVICEI
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1234
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SERVER
5678
22232421
1234
6785
9101112
26272825
13141516
30313229
USER
CAT5 cables
1 for each DX User
in the system
Up to 8 for 8 x 32
Up to 4 for 4 x 32
Figure 17 Cascaded DX Central units connected to a hub/switch
7.3 Configuring the primary and slave units
After connecting the cascaded DX Centrals you must configure them to be primary
or slave (secondary level) units.
To do so, connect a DX User to the each DX Central – primary and slave, as
explained above in section 4 on page 11. (Where you don’t have enough DX Users
for all the slaves, after configuring one slave connect the DX User to the next
slave.)
Power on the DX units in the following order:
1. Primary DX Central.
2. Slave/s DX Central(s).
3. The DX User connected to the primary DX Central.
The Configuration wizard appears on the DX User’s monitor, see Figure 18.
Figure 18 Configuration Wizard
1. Check Cascaded DX configuration.
2. Click . The DX Network Configuration box appears. See Figure 19.