User Manual

SPEEDCOM SC5800 User Manual

6.5.2 Menu Items

6.5.2.1 Date/Time Entry

In this menu, the user has the option of entering the:

• Date (change date using the calendar display)

• Time (change time using the spin button on the right-hand side of the control or enter

manually).

• The user had the option of ‘fetching’ the date and time from the PC or Laptop and using this

information.

• Use the Apply Changes button once the update in the Indoor Unit is to be made.

6.5.2.2 Station Status

6.5.2.3 General Status Indicators

These errors occur during the phase of continuous error checking. Errors are

latched until the operator clears them on the NMS.

The following is a list of possible error indicators as well as the possible faults and

corrective actions to solve each error.

Error Displayed Possible Faults and Corrective Actions

General Faults

Outdoor Unit Not

Responding

• The Outdoor Unit simply doesn't respond to any messages sent to it

by the Indoor Unit. The Outdoor Unit could possibly be damaged or

the cables to the Outdoor Unit are disconnected from the Indoor Unit

or damaged.

Outdoor Unit

Comms Error

• Message from Outdoor Unit too long (data corruption).

• Received message frame invalid – the Outdoor Unit messages follow a

strict data link layer frame protocol. There could data corruption.

• Partial message received from Outdoor Unit - remainder did not arrive

in time (Outdoor Unit switched off?).

• CRC Error – data corruption.

• Software queuing/buffering errors in the Indoor Unit firmware.

Wayside Port

Comms Error

• Wayside port queue overruns - too high data rates or failed overhead

link.

• Comms Error - errors caused by Rx Overrun (Indoor Unit processor

could not service the received characters fast: too high data rates),

parity error if odd or even parity enabled (data corruption or incorrect

configuration), framing error (no valid stop bit where one was expected

- invalid baud rate or data width or parity configuration or data

corruption) or break detected (line shorted causing permanent break or

corruption).