3. C300 Controller Installation and Upgrades
3.2. C300 Controller installation
Series 8 C300 Controller User's Guide
Honeywell
Fault Tolerant Ethernet (FTE) network
connectors
FTE A network cable connectors are Yellow.
FTE B network cable connectors are Green.
Redundant private path cable connector.
Redundancy cable connector is Orange
Battery Backup cable connector
Battery cable is a twisted pair.
FTE DEVICE INDEX
99, 10, 1
Three rotary decimal switches used to set the
FTE network address (Device Index) of the
controller.
Refer to the C300 Controller Installation
procedure for setting the address.
Prerequisites
Before you install the C300 Controller you should have:
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A control cabinet installed with panel for mounting Series 8 control hardware.
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A Series 8 power supply and optional battery backup hardware installed in the
cabinet.
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Following are the parts included:
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C300 Controller assembly (control module with IOTA board and mounting
hardware)
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2 STP Cat5 Ethernet cables (one Yellow cable, one Green cable)
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2 or 4 IOLink cable assemblies for connecting on-board IO Link interface if the
controller is supporting Series 8 I/O
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Ensure the cabinet enclosure is connected to a protective earth ground using #8 AWG
solid copper wire. There should be metal to metal contact between the grounding bus
bar and the enclosure as well as the channel.