Re: AVTS serial port

["Juan Rivera" <juan@dieboldes.com>]

In the future we have asked the manufacturer to place that connector towards
the opposite side of the Power supply for use to connect to the internal
RS232C connections to control mother board and drives via software when
power outage is detected.  When will this happen?  In the future...

Juan

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Clark <ken@dieboldes.com>
To: <rcr@dieboldes.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 1:56 PM
Subject: RE: AVTS serial port


> > There is a new port just above the AC power plug, and below the
> > AC out power
> > plug.  It is a DB9 female connector.  No one seems to know that
> > this port is
> > or is for.
> >
> > rob
>
> Its a DB9 female RS232 port on the new UPS power supply.  If the UPS were
> integrated with the ballot station application, it would be connected to a
> serial port on the motherboard so that the operating system is aware when
> the power fails.
>
> As to why it is female, I guess the UPS manufacturers consider it a DCE
> (Data Communications Equipment) like a modem, rather than a DTE (Data
> Terminal Equpiment) like a computer.  The AccuVote is considered a
computer,
> so its male.
>
> Short answer:  it isn't used for communication, so don't worry about it.
>
> Ken