Modbus RS485 to USB Adaptor, used to allow emonPi / emonBase / RaspberryPi + emonSD to read from SDM120 electricity meter.
Specifications
Baudrate: 300-921600bps
Host port: USB
Device port: RS485
USB:
- Operating voltage: 5V
- Connector: USB-A
- Protection: 200mA self-recovery fuse, ESD protection
- Transmission distance: about 5m
RS485:
- Connector: screw terminal
- Pins: A+, B-, GND
- Direction control: hardware automatic control
- Protection: 600W lightningproof and surge-suppress, 15KV ESD protection (onboard 120R balancing resistor)
- Transmission distance: about 1200m (low rate)
- Transmission mode: point-to-multipoints (up to 32 nodes, it is recommended to use repeaters for 16 nodes or more)
LED indicators:
- PWR: red power indicator, light up when there is USB connection and voltage is detected
- TXD: red TX indicator, light up when the USB port sends data
- RXD: red RX indicator, light up when the device ports send data back
Operating environment:
- Temperature: -15℃ ~ 70℃
- Humidity: 5%RH ~ 95%RH
Documentation
Use emonHub to read data via ModBus and post to Emoncms
Windows driver (not required for Linux emonPi / emonBase)