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Connecting & Powering up

Overview​

There are three methods to power and communicate with your sensor:

PowerComms

Connecting​

Pigtail cabled sensors​

Sensors fitted with a 6-core pigtailed cable should be connected as shown in the diagram below. Two cable types are available, so select the diagram that corresponds to your cable.

WiringAQ2a

Sensors of an earlier revision, identifiable by a blue wire, should be connected using this alternative diagram.

Wiring_old

note

Because of the potential for different vendors to use different signal definitions, if you connect our sensors' A/B wiring to your communication device and communication does not work, try reversing the signals


SubConn cabled sensors​

For sensors terminated using a MCBH6M connector, follow the pin-out below:

MCBH6M

PinFunction
1Ground
2Power
3RS232 Sensor Receive
4RS232 Sensor Transmit
5RS485 B - Inverting (for sensors with a serial number > 3000028)
6RS485 A - Non-Inverting (for sensors with a serial number > 3000028)
note

Because of the potential for different vendors to use different signal definitions, if you connect our sensors' A/B wiring to your communication device and communication does not work, try reversing the signals

Powering​

The sensor can be simply powered by any power source (6-42V) or via the DTU from a USB port of a computer.

Via battery​

  1. Connect the sensor to power
  2. Wait for the sensor to beep twice

Via the DTU​

  1. Connect the sensor to the DTU and the USB to the computer
  2. Press the power on switch on the DTU and the light will come on to show the DTU has power
  3. Wait for the sensor to beep twice