Chapter 8: Power, Environmental & Digital I/O
184 Console Server & RIM Gateway User Manual
 Plug the male RJ plug on the EMD Adapter into the
EMD. Then connect the Adapter to the console
server serial port using the provided UTP cable. If the
6 foot (2 meter) UTP cable provided with the EMD is
not long enough it can be replaced with a standard
Cat5 UTP cable up to 33 feet (10meters) in length
 Screw the bare wires on any smoke detector, water
detector, vibration sensor, open-door sensor or general
purpose open/close status sensors into the terminals on
the EMD
Note: You can attach two sensors onto the terminals on EMDs that are connected to console servers with Opengear
Classic pinouts. However console servers with -01 and -02 pinouts only support attaching a single sensor to each
EMD
The EMD can be used only with an Opengear console server and cannot be connected to standard RS232 serial
ports on other appliances.
 Select Environmental as the Device Type in the Serial & Network: Serial Port menu for the port to which the
EMD is to be attached. No particular Common Settings are required.
 Click Apply
8.3.2 Connecting sensors to ACM5000 and ACM5500s
You can connect EMDs (and their attached environmental sensors) to the serial ports on your ACM5000, as
detailed in the previous section. However the ACM5000 can also support direct connection of environmental
sensors.
All the ACM5000 models (except ACM5004-2-
I) can be configured with the environmental
option –E. Models with this option have a
green connector block on the side (marked
SENSORS 1 -4) and up to four environmental
sensors can be directly attached to this block.
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