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: 
 
A control cabinet installed with panel for mounting Series 8 control hardware. 
 
A Series 8 power supply and optional battery backup hardware installed in the 
cabinet. 
 
Following are the parts included: 
 
C300 Controller assembly (control module with IOTA board and mounting 
hardware) 
 
2 STP Cat5 Ethernet cables (one Yellow cable, one Green cable) 
 
2 or 4 IOLink cable assemblies for connecting on-board IO Link interface if the 
controller is supporting Series 8 I/O 
 
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.