Communication Status LEDs

The LED panel on the 171 CBU 78090 (M1) processor includes the following LEDs you can use to diagnose the state of communication over the 2 serial ports:

  • MB1 CH0 (yellow)

  • MB2 CH1 (yellow)

The LED panel on the 171 CBU 98090 (M1E) and 171 CBU 98091 (M1E-GD) processors includes the following LEDs you can use to diagnose the state of communication over the serial and Ethernet ports:

  • MB1 CH0 (yellow)

  • ETH STS (green)

  • ETH LNK/ACT (green)

  • ETH 100 (green)

Diagnosing Communication Status

The state of each of these LEDs describes the communication status for each processor, as follows:

LED

Processor

Flash Pattern

Communication State

M1

M1E & M1E-GD

MB1 CH0

X

X

flashing1

Data exchange (RX or TX) on the configurable RS232/RS485 serial port (channel 0) in progress.

OFF

No data exchange on the serial connection.

MB2 CH1

X

 

flashing1

Data exchange (RX or TX) on fixed RS485 serial port (channel 1) in progress.

OFF

No data exchange on the serial connection.

ETH STS

 

X

ON

Communication OK.

2 flashes2

Invalid MAC address.

3 flashes2

Ethernet link not connected.

4 flashes2

Duplicate IP address.

5 flashes2

Waiting for served IP address.

6 flashes2

Operating using default IP address.

ETH LNK/ACT

 

X

ON

Ethernet link detected; no communication activity.

OFF

No Ethernet link detected.

flashing

Data exchange on the Ethernet link in progress.

ETH 100

 

X

ON

Ethernet transmission at 100 Mbits/s (fast Ethernet).

OFF

Ethernet transmission at 10 Mbits/s, or no Ethernet link detected.

1. ON for 200 ms, OFF for 200 ms, repeated continuously.

2. ON for 200 ms, OFF for 200 ms, repeated N times, followed by OFF for 1000 ms.