Installation guide
 Perle 10/100/1000 Ethernet Extended Temperature Media Converter 
 Installation Guide
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Operation 
Status LED 
The Perle 10/100/1000 Rate converting Extended Temperature 
Media converters have status LEDs located on the front panel of 
the unit. 
PWR 
On – Power is applied to the unit 
Blinking (slow) – Loopback mode (one or both fiber interfaces are in 
loopback mode) 
Blinking (fast) Power On failure. See LED Pattern to determine pattern 
combination and failure cause 
LED Pattern 
FDF  LKF  FDC  PSE   
Off  Off  On  On  SFP incompatible 
All other LED patterns 
Internal hardware 
failure 
FDF- (Fiber Duplex) 
On – Full Duplex 
Off – Half Duplex 
LKF- (Status on Fiber Link) 
On – Fiber link is present 
Off – No fiber link present 
Blinking (slow) – Fiber link appears functional – Fiber link has been 
brought down by Smart Link Pass-Through 
Blinking (fast) – Fiber link up and receiving data 










