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SAT110

The SAT110 is provided as an off-the-shelf kit that has the following components: SAT110 Terminal, SAT-1xx-TB1 Breakout Box, Flex Cable. The SAT110 Kit is a convenient method of connecting your devices to the SAT110 Terminal.

See SAT110 Product Page for more details.

SAT110 Kit

SAT110 Terminal

The SCADALink SAT110 is a versatile low-power satellite terminal. It is a SCADA device that provides Modem, RTU, and Alarm Callout functionality in a single product. It is designed for remote SCADA communications, monitoring I/O and RS232 serial devices.

Onboard I/O Wiring Examples

Figure 1: Digital Input Wiring
Figure 2: Analog Voltage Input Wiring
Figure 3: Analog 4-20mA Current Loop Input Wiring
Figure 4: Digital Output (Relay Contact) Wiring

Batteries

Each SAT110 requires a set of 12 non-rechargeable batteries1). These are included in the kit.

  • Energizer AA 1.5V Lithium Ultimate Long-Life
  • Model Number: L91BP4

Flex Cable

The 15’ cable is a flexible 7 pin multiconductor molded cable housed in SEALTITE® flexible liquid-tight conduit.

Color Wire Gauge Functionality
Black 20 AWG Ground
Red 20 AWG VIN
Brown 22 AWG IO 01
Green 22 AWG IO 02
Blue 22 AWG IO 03
Orange 22 AWG RS-232 Tx
Yellow 22 AWG RS-232 Rx
Clear 22 AWG Chassis Ground

Installation and Setup

Mounting: The SAT1xx Breakout Box Kit comes with pipe clamps to attach the terminal to a pipe. The included mounting bracket also provides a convenient method for the terminal to be physically screwed onto the side of a building.

Orientation: The SAT110 terminal should be installed with a clear view of the sky in the SE direction. If any obstructions are present within the viewing angel of 30 degrees above the horizon, the dome might need to be repositioned for improved clearance.

Power: The unit does not require external power since it has internal batteries. However if an external supply is used it must be rated at 10-30 VDC at 5A (peak) for operation.

Alarms: An internal alarm can be configured to callout on low and high battery or external supply voltage.

Serial Interface: The SCADALink SAT110 has one serial ports: COM0 that is an RS232 port and is typically used for configuration but can also be used to connect to field equipment.

I/O: The SCADALink SAT110 provides three onboard configurable I/O pins: Analog Input, Digital Input, Digital Output. Each of the pins can be configured via the SAT110 GUI to operate in any of these three modes.

Chassis Ground: There is one drain wire, with clear coating, that needs to be attached to the SAT-1xx-TB1 chassis ground connection.

Power On/Off Controls

The SAT110 contains a magnetic sensor which is located under the three concentric circles etched in the top of the terminal. A magnet can be applied to the center of the three circles allowing the terminal to be powered on or powered off. A magnetic fob is provided with the kit for this purpose.

If the fob is placed on the circles for 10 seconds or more the terminal will power off. If the fob is placed on the circles for between 3 and 10 seconds the terminal will power on.

The terminal responds to fob placement by flashing the LED:

  • If terminal is powering on flashes 10 times, 1 second apart, for a total of 10 seconds.
  • If terminal is already powered on flashes 5 times, 1 second apart, for a total of 5 seconds.
  • If terminal is powering off flashes 20 times, .25 seconds apart, for a total of 5 seconds.

LED

In addition to being used with the fob the LED also indicates the operational status of the terminal.

For the first 30 seconds after a terminal has been reset the LED will not blink. During this time the terminal is restarting the firmware. The LED will start blinking only after the firmware has started.

If the LED is enabled by the GUI then during normal operation the LED blinks every 10 seconds for one minute.

Immediately after the firmware has started and if the RS-232 port is being used by the configuration the LED will blink quickly for 30 seconds. When this starts you have two minutes to use the GUI2) to connect to the terminal with the RS-232 port. After this time the RS-232 port will be in use by the SatSCADA application firmware and you will not be able to use the GUI to connect to the terminal. You will need to restart the terminal again or change the config over-the-air to stop using the RS-232 port.

The LED will blink once whenever there is a call out or ping to the server.

If the LED never blinks then either the LED has been disabled by the GUI, there is no power being applied either external or by batteries, or there is no SatSCADA application firmware loaded into the device.

1)
two parallel battery packs each having six batteries in series
2)
possibly to change the config to stop using RS-232
hardware/sat110.txt · Last modified: 2020/01/24 17:44 by dmeier