End-of-line termination on local FC Bus - Metasys - LIT-12011034 - General System Information - Metasys System - Release 11.0

MS/TP Communications Bus Technical Bulletin

Product
Building Automation Systems > Building Automation Systems > Metasys System
Document type
Technical Bulletin
Document number
LIT-12011034
Version
Release 11.0
Revision date
2022-02-07

The FC bus requires EOL termination at the end of each bus segment. Figure 1 shows four examples of EOL termination on the FC bus.

Figure 1. FC Bus segment EOL termination scenarios
Table 1. Scenario description
Scenario Description
1 FC Bus with an SNE at the end of the line
2 FC Bus with an SNE not at the end of the line
3 FC Bus in two segments with the repeater at the end of both segments
4 FC Bus in two segments with the repeater not at the end of both segments