SpectraSense 2000

This originally appeared as a sidebar in isuue 54 of Circuit Cellar Ink

Reproduced by permission of Circuit Cellar

The SpectraSense 2000 is an all-in-one home and light-industrial control system designed for easy installation and maintenance. Four or five of the more popular HCS components were combined onto a single board ard put into a heavy-duty steel enclosure to take the guesswork out of connecting together separate subsystems. This programmable building control system manages household circuits, appliances. and HVAC systems either directly or remotely. The system can be integrated with building control and security systems such as HVAC controls, automated valves and dampers, security systems and alarms, multimedia entertainment systems, and virtually any other building-automation product.

The SpectraSense 2000 offers a wide variety of advanced control features.

You can:

• use the board without a dedicated PC connection
• directly connect up to 24 contact closure-type inputs
• directly connect up to 24 buffered outputs
• directly; connect up to 8 analog sensors (temperature. humidity. light level, etc.) using 8-, 10-, or 12-bit resolution and gains of 1. 2, 4, or 8
• enjoy 2-way X-10 power-line control
• generate, receive, and monitor telephone calls using a DTMF phone interface
• connect up to 31 network expansion modules over a single twisted pair up to 4000 feet away
• directly plug in other expansion modules such as voice output and additional digital I/O
• program with XPRESS control language using a PC-compatible computer