Moxa Technologies C168P About This Manual, Introduction, Hardware Installation, Troubleshooting

About This Manual

This manual is composed of six Chapters and one Appendix. This manual is written for installer, system administrator and software programmer.

If you are a first-time installer and system administrator, we recommend you to go through the whole manual except Chapter 4.

If you are a software programmer, you may refer to Chapter 4 “Serial Programming Tools”.

If you need cable wiring information, please see Chapter “Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring”.

If you encounter any problem during installation, please refer to Chapter “Troubleshooting”.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Overview and features of the C168P boards, list of items and overall installation guide.

Chapter 2 Hardware Installation

Hardware installation for the C168P boards and connection option (Opt8x) is detailed.

Chapter 3 Software Installation

This Chapter details the software installation, configuration, driver loading/unloading, driver upgrade and removal for various operating systems: Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS.

Chapter 4 Serial Programming Tools

This Chapter roughly describes the programming tools for various O.S. platforms, including PComm under Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and API-232 under DOS. Also RS-485 programming issue is covered (for Opt8J).

Chapter 5 Connection Option (Opt8x) and Cable Wiring

This Chapter describes the RS-232/422/485 cable wiring for each connection option (Opt8x).

Chapter 6 Troubleshooting

This Chapter describes the problems and possible answers for C168P.

Appendix Technical Reference

Specification details, I/O port address map, and DB62 pinouts are described.