Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- CCU 100 and Repeater 100 Installation Guide
- Important Safety and Compliance Information
- 1 Before You Begin
- 2 CCU/Repeater Basics
- 3 Planning a CCU/Repeater Installation
- 4 Installing the Collector or Repeater
- 5 Battery Care and Maintenance
- A Detailed Collector or Repeater Specifications
- B Port and Protocol Requirements
- C Status and Diagnostics
- D Changing the Repeater Password
- E Antenna Line Sweeps Procedure
- Anritsu Site Master Calibration
- Testing on a Network Device with a Remotely-Mounted 915 MHz Antenna
- Understanding Party Responsibilities
- Itron ChoiceConnect Antenna and Line Sweep Test Form
- Itron ChoiceConnect 915 MHz Antenna Specifications
- Typical Coaxial Cable Specification Summary Table
- Sample Sweeps Output
- F Grounding Specifications
- Understanding Grounding and Bonding
- Exterior Grounding System Design for Concentrators
- Equipment Buried Ground Ring
- Chemical Ground Rod Installation
- Itron Concentrator Equipment
- Installing Coax Ground Kits
- Collector Sites with Indoor Itron TCU / CCU Equipment
- Grounding Rooftop Network Devices
- Down Conductor Installation
- Cold Water Pipe Option
- Building Steel Option
- Antenna and Coax Grounding - Rooftops
- Grounding antennas on rooftops
- Cable Tray Grounding
- Water Tower Grounding
- New Wooden and Concrete Antenna Poles
- Equipment Shelter Grounding
- Repeaters on Communication Tower Sites
- Repeaters on Rooftops
- Multiple Story Site Ground System
- Down Conductors Installation - Building / Shelter Penetrations
- Down Conductors Installation - Limits of Bend Radius
- Down Conductors Installation Connection Methods
- Cable Entrance Facilities
- Clamp-On Ground Resistance Testing
- Understanding Party Responsibilities
C
Status and Diagnostics
Status Indicator
The LED Status Indicator is primarily intended to support installation personnel for immediate
feedback. The following sequences define the Fixed Network solution's operational
characteristics:
Sequence details: The dot time: 100 mSec The dash time is 300 mSec
Off Time between B and N: 700 mSec Off time between dot and dash: 100 mSec
Collector
State
Description LED Pattern
Off The collector is not running. Off
Powered
(Host
booting)
When power is applied to the collector and the collector
reset is released allowing the boot operation to begin.
Solid continuous illumination
Time
Acquisition
The collector is attempting to synchronize its system time
with an external time reference through NTP and/or GPS.
Note Repeaters do not support NTP. Instead, repeaters
acquire time from either the collector or from GPS. If time
is received from the collector, the repeater status
indicator will not display the Morse T.
Morse code for the letter ‘T’ ( _ ).
A single 660 ms flash repeated
every 10 seconds.
Starting The Linux kernel is loaded and initialized and the
collector application begins execution.
Morse code for the letter ‘P’ ( . _
_ . ) with the dits at 220 ms the
dahs at 660 ms and 220 ms
spacing between the dits and
dah. Repeated every 10
seconds.
ERT Heard The radio processor booted and is reporting end-point
messages to the host processor.
Morse code for the letter ‘N’ (_ .
)
Headend
Connected
The collector established an authenticated connection
with the head-end over the configured WAN interface.
Morse code for the letter ‘B’ (_ .
. . )
No Battery The collector determined it should have a backup battery,
but that battery does not appear to be present or is not
functioning. The display of this state is a higher priority
than all states other than Low-visibility, and will be
displayed exclusively if the battery cannot be detected.
Morse code for the letter ‘S’ (. . .
)
Ok The radio processor booted and is reporting end-point
messages to the host processor, and the collector has
established an authenticated connection to the head-
end. This condition will be signaled for about 15 minutes
Morse code for the letter
sequence ‘BN’ ( _ . . .
_ . ) The dit and dah timing
described above with the space
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