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turbokinetic · Junior 2 Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 23

Hey all. This is semi-PLC related. It is closest to an inverter so I posted it here in this area.

Anyway - I am working on a panel with a small 24V UPS system. It is a Phoenix Contact Quint-UPS with IQ Technology.

This has internal configuration settings that are configured with the laptop software. This software is free from Phoenix, but I don't have the USB cable to use it.

The cable is part number IFS-USB-DATACABLE - 2320500

Here is an example of the UPS I have:
https://www.phoenixcontact.com/online/portal/us?1dmy&urile=wcm%3apath%3a/usen/web/main/products/subcategory_pages/USV_with_IQ_technology_P-22-04-02-01/3bb431a3-aeda-44d4-9602-3bbf794c80b4

Thanks for any information you may have! I am working overseas and don't know where I could get this cable locally. I am willing to cut up a USB cable and make a temporary cable if I have to.

Sincerely,
David

palbub · Junior Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 2

this is bugging me too...
as an industrial vendor, i don't see how phoenix contact is trying to establish a proprietary interface and not even publishing the pinout,
while selling the cables and memmory devices at premium prices.

my guess is that there are two interfaces on the port:
uart for serial communication,
i2c for the memory sticks (connecting an i2c eeprom = cheapest method).

i opened my QUINT-UPS/24/10 and did some tracing.
the port has:

three of the data-lines have pull-up resistors, i guess those are the inputs.
the controller is an MSP430 variant, i haven't worked with those before.
maybe somebody familiar with MSP420 can guess the pinout from the connections.

otherwise one would need to examine an autentic cable and memory-stick,
but i'm not paying 40eur for either.

turbokinetic · Junior 2 Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 23

Thanks for the reply! I appreciate the time to study the pinout of this device. Our company ended up having to eat the cost of the cable so that I could program the Quint UPS. I don't have it with me at this time, for any measurements, however.

One thing I can say, the cable is very small and compact, and doesn't appear to have any active electronics in it (such as a protocol converter or isolator of any sort).

Sincerely,
David

palbub · Junior Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Posts: 2

pail · Junior Joined: 19 Oct 2019 Posts: 1

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Actual pinout for data cable.
Connector - IDC1.27-12 or equivalent (Harwin M50-3800642, Mill-max 852-10-012-10-003000).

Can be used with any TTL to RS232/RS485 converter, USB to TTL Serial converter or TTL to ethernet converter.
Can be converted to Modbus-TCP device if used with USR-TCP232-E2.
Modbus registers see https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Phoenix%20Contact%20PDFs/2320461_Ds.pdf