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PTU OPTIONS PTU-D300 User’s Manual (v2.18.0)

6 PTU OPTIONS

6.1 EIO Option: Expansion Serial Ports and Control

For OEM applications, internal D300 wiring can be brought out on FFC (flat flex connectors)

to provide for additional control signals. For example, other serial devices attached or proximal to

the pan-tilt may require other RS232 serial ports. Please contact Directed Perception for

additional information on these custom configurations.

7 NETWORKING

The PTU lets you connect up to 127 PTUs to a single host computer port. Your host

computer can then address each PTU on the network as though the PTU were the only unit

attached to the host. In this way, it is simple to migrate existing code developed for a single PTU

to a network of PTUs controlled by a single host computer.

This section describes the basic installation and setup steps required to network your pan-tilt

units.

7.1 Basic Networking Setup Steps

The steps in networking your PTUs to your host computer are:

1. Sketch out the physical placement of your PTUs and host computer.

2. Assign a unique network ID number to each PTU.

3. Connect the PTUs and host computer to the PTU network.

4. Test the configuration by addressing each PTU by its unit ID and commanding and querying

its attached pan-tilt unit.

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