Advent Communications
209297 – DCU5000 Drive Control Unit Page 7 of 42
1. INTRODUCTION
The DCU5000 is a drive control unit designed to drive any of the current Advent range of
motorised antennas.
The unit is a 1U high, half width, 360mm deep chassis and is mains powered. (90-264V AC.
47-63 HZ. <100VA). The DCU5000 has a RS485 serial communications interface allowing the
unit to be controlled using a SatFinder, ACU4XXX, or ACU5XXX to implement the autoSearch
and autoTrack control of an antenna system.