C15

Bus Monitor

Abstract: HDX bus termination and monitor.

Specs

The C15 bus monitor terminates the HDX bus and monitors the signal quality on the bus.

Features,

  • HDX interface (2Mb, half duplex, RS-485 differential)
  • Termination of HDX bus
  • Various bus sensors to monitor the HDX signal quality
    • RS-485 differential voltage
    • RS-485 bias voltage
    • DCC voltage
  • OLED (128×64) display
  • firmware update over the bus

CLI interface

The C15 Monitor gives insights about the electrical health of an HDX bus. It always sits at the very end of an HDX bus and monitors DCC and RS-485 signal quality. There may be a lot of metrics in the output below which are typically not of interest – but will become important in case of trouble shooting.

O:\rtb>rtbclient --monitor -v
Cnt   Monitor                    Detect    Heartbeat  Path         Sequence#  Hdx[V]  L-d[V]  H-d[V]  F-d[V]  Dcc-A[V]  Dcc-B[V]  L-A[V]  L-B[V]  H-A[V]  H-B[V]  F-A[V]  F-B[V]
  1 * 000dc150-18bbf121884c739e  16:36:37  17:26:37   01.01.02.       454296  14.900  -1.632   1.696   0.016    12.000    12.000   0.736   2.368   2.384   0.688   3.200   3.184
  2 * 000dc150-c83ac8b2830c3ecf  16:36:38  17:26:37   01.01.03.       454333  14.900  -1.552   1.648   0.096    12.000    12.000   0.688   2.240   2.304   0.656   1.632   1.536
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