Moxa Technologies C360 manual Async Concentrator and Serial Number

Appendix B ∙ ∙ Technical Reference

For 10BASE-2 with repeaters, the longest distance from C360 Control Board to the last Async Concentrator is about 1000 meters which is depicted as follows:

	200 m		200 m	200 m		200 m
C360		AC	AC		AC		AC

: Repeater AC : Async Concentrator

200 m

AC

Specifications for 10BASE-2 thin coaxial cable are as follows:

vCable characteristics: 0.2 inch diameter RG-58A/U 50 ohm

vMax. segment length: 185 meters

vMin. distance between two nodes: 0.5 meter

vMax. number of nodes per segment: 30

B.2 Async Concentrator and Serial Number

Inside Async Concentrator, each 16550C chip controls one port. The 16550C is an advanced asynchronous controller capable of on-chip hardware flow control and higher speed up to 460.8K bps.

Each Async Concentrator has its own unique serial number for identification. Serial Number is the only way to locate the Async Concentrator and then serial ports.

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