Hi all,
My big box of stuff from AO arrived and last night I started up the M1 on my table to prep for some bench testing. I ordered the Elk-M1DBH and I also took the advice of the Home Wiring 101 guide and ran 18 ga. FireWire to all my keypads in addition to Cat-5e. I'd prefer to run the keypads off the FireWire, but since the DBH uses RJ45 jacks how can I do this? Would it be possible to use the DBH for my expansion cards and also daisy-chain the keypads directly to the RS-485 bus? (I'm guessing the answer is no.) All the keypad wiring is home-run. I'm having trouble coming up with an elegant solution...
Thanks,
JonR
My big box of stuff from AO arrived and last night I started up the M1 on my table to prep for some bench testing. I ordered the Elk-M1DBH and I also took the advice of the Home Wiring 101 guide and ran 18 ga. FireWire to all my keypads in addition to Cat-5e. I'd prefer to run the keypads off the FireWire, but since the DBH uses RJ45 jacks how can I do this? Would it be possible to use the DBH for my expansion cards and also daisy-chain the keypads directly to the RS-485 bus? (I'm guessing the answer is no.) All the keypad wiring is home-run. I'm having trouble coming up with an elegant solution...
Thanks,
JonR