User Guide

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Table 6a: 9602N Environmental Tests
Test Name Test Reference Test Description
Thermal Shock EN60068-2-14:2009
Change of Temperature,
-25°C to +70°C,
5 cycles of 1 hour each
Humidity IEC60068-2-78:2002
Damp heat steady state
40
O
C 93% RH for 4 days
Vibration IEC60068-2-64:2008
0.96 m2/s3 from 5Hz to 20Hz
21Hz to 500Hz dropping 6dB per octave
Vibration SAE J1455: 2012 Section 4.10
10-40Hz at 0.02g
2
/Hz
40-500Hz dropping 6dB per octave
Shock EN60068-2-27:2009
10G peak shock over a period of 11ms, 3
shocks in 3 perpendicular orientations
Shock
SAE J1455: 2012 Section 4.11
Society of Automotive Engineers
Drop 1m onto concrete in 3 perpendicular
orientations (3 drops)
2.4 Physical Interface Connectors
The Iridium 9602/9602N SBD Transceiver incorporates three connectors:
• A multiway user connector
• An RF antenna connector
• A GPS RF pass-through connector
The physical characteristics of the connectors and their electrical interfaces are described in more detail
in Sections 3.1.1 and 4.1 respectively.
3 Electrical Interfaces
The following subsections contain information for the electrical interfaces of the 9602/9602N SBD
Transceiver for the non-RF connections. The RF interfaces are covered in section 0.
3.1 User Connector
The user connector provides the following connections to the 9602/9602N module:
• DC power supply input
• Power on/off control
• Serial data interface
• Network available output
• Supply power indicator output