iSTAR Pro 4U Rack Mount Quick Start Installation Guide

Features
System Components
The iSTAR Pro 4U Rack Mount hardware components consist of:
Front Panel - With LCD to display the current status and for use when running
diagnostics. Alarm Board provides Indicators for:
Power
Fire Alarm
Fan Failure
High Temp
• Rear Connector Panel - Connectors for:
8 or 16 door readers with Lock power
16 or 32 Supervised Input connectors
Two extra ports for I/8 and R/8 connections
Fire Alarm input
NOTE
If you need to run additional wires through the rack enclosure, you can knock out
the second LAN jack and use that opening for the cables – modem, battery
connections, etc.
• General Controller Module (GCM) – A general purpose board running Windows
CE. The GCM has two PCMCIA slots for an internal modem, and/or a second
network interface card and/or a compact flash card. There is a panel of NiMH
batteries to retain the data memory in the event of a power failure.
The iSTAR Pro GCM can interface with one or two ACM modules.
• 1 or 2 Access Control Modules (ACM) – An access control board that
communicates with the GCM and provides readers, outputs, and inputs. The iSTAR
Pro can have up to two ACMs that control 16 doors and provide connectors for up to
16 RM readers or RM modules.
• Front Panel Alarm board - Drive front panel indicators.
• 1 or 2 APD8F-UL - Lock Power Distribution Boards.
• 1 or 2 CPS1000-UL/CSA - 12/24 VDC (for APD8F-UL Lock Power Boards)
• 1 CPS1000-UL/CSA-12 VDC Power Supply (for GCM, ACMs, Alarm Board, Fan)
• 1 - Toroidal Transformer (30V 625VA).
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