Owner's manual

- Rack Smart Brick Brain Connections -
The only connection on the front is the the RS-422 serial port,
which is also wired to the backplane. This serial port is used to
send commands to the Smart Brick System or to connect
LaserDisk (or DVD) players to the Rack Smart Brick Brain. It must be
connected to a terminal or computer running a modem or termi-
nal emulation program for configuring the Rack Smart Brick Brain.
This is the same style of connector and pin out as is used on the
AB-100 Digital Audio Repeaters, and can be attached to both
Smart Brick Brains and Digital Audio Repeaters simultaneously,
just so long as their addresses don’t conflict. Facing the end of
the cable with the release latch upwards, its pin out is as follows:
pin # COLOR SIGNAL NAME:
(left) 1 WHITE signal ground
2 BLACK - Tx data out from Smart Brick Brains
3 RED + Tx data out from Smart Brick Brains
4 GREEN - Rx data in to Smart Brick Brains
5 YELLOW + Rx data in to Smart Brick Brains
(right) 6 BLUE signal ground
To cross wire the RS-422 / RS-485 signals from the Rack Smart
Brick Brain to the RS-232 serial port of an IBM compatible or
Pioneer LaserDisk (or DVD) player, cross connect the signals as
follows:
IBM IBMPioneer LaserDisk (or DVD)
DB-25 DE-9 DB-15 SIGNAL SIGNAL FROM/TO Smart Brick Brain
2 3 2 DATA OUT - Rx data in to Brick Brain (GREEN)
3 2 3 DATA IN - Tx data out from Brick Brain (BLACK)
7 5 1, 11 or 15 GROUND signal ground (BLUE or WHITE)
Apple Macintosh computers have true RS-422 serial ports
built in. To connect to the Smart Brick System, the pin out is as fol-
lows for a Macintosh mini-DIN-8:
t
o + serial data in to card (#5 yellow)
to - serial data in to card (#4 green)
12
34 5
678
from - serial data out from card (#2 black)
from + serial data out from card (#3 red)
signal ground (#1 blue or #6 white)
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