User's Manual

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3. Insert the keyed connector from the battery pack onto the Mesh Stamp.
4. Observe that the indicator LEDs become active.
Upon receiving power, the Rcv LED will illuminate indicating the Mesh Stamp is listening. The
Mesh Status LED will blink indicating that the Mesh Stamp is searching for the mesh. When the
Mesh Stamp receives a packet, it will get the mesh timing. Upon receiving the mesh timing, the
Mesh Status LED will stop blinking and just illuminate. This could take a few minutes as the Mesh
Stamps searches in the time and frequency domains.
Once the Mesh Stamp has synchronized its time with the mesh, it begins honoring the Mesh Duty
Cycle. The duty cycle indicates how frequently battery powered Mesh Stamps become active to
transmit their data. The Evaluation Kit is pre-configured with a Mesh Duty Cycle of one minute.
When all five Mesh Stamps are set up and connected to the mesh, they should sleep for the
Mesh Duty Cycle. Then they should all become active for a few seconds to transmit and receive.
After which they sleep again. This is the normal duty cycle of the Mesh Stamps and should
continue indefinitely.
If desired, the Mesh Stamp circuit boards may be affixed to their battery case with double stick
tape.
4 Exercising the Mesh
Self-configuring test
One characteristic of the MeshPlus(R) network is that Mesh Stamps may be added to the
network without explicit configuration. A properly configured Mesh Stamp will join its network
when it finds it. The Mesh will honor the new Mesh Stamp, receive its data and share any new
configuration.
The self-configuring nature of the Mesh may be tested by bringing up a new Mesh Stamp and
observing as it automatically connects to the Mesh. This feature was actually tested during the
set up of this evaluation kit. As the Mesh Stamps were assembled and activated, they should
automatically connect to the Mesh.
The Mesh test
When a Mesh is all within radio range of the Gateway, it generally performs as a Star network
with each Mesh Stamp’s data being picked up by the Gateway directly. To see the nature of the
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