The station plugs accommodate the cables and optical fibres provided by ESO at every station; the details of the implementation is given in Station Plug Interface[RD 14]
The main characteristics of the station plug are:
ESO provides the guiding and mechanical fixation of the cables connected between LCU and terminal blocks (in order to avoid mechanical stresses on electrical connections). All other cables as described in Installation of ESO cables [RD 17] shall be routed and mechanically fixed by the contractor, except Nasmyth and Pupil beacon fiber.
The cables labelling is described in [RD
17] It follows the template Ca ESO/b /c where:
a is a sequential number
b is the input connection location
c is the output connection location
The locations and their abbreviation is described in annex 3 of [RD 17] and in drawing Telescope control cabling path of AN01
| I/O characteristics description | Input | Output | Remark |
| Siemens PLC on Transporter | PNP Open collector | Load between output and ground | |
| PHASE Drive controller | NPN Totem pole | Load between output and ground |
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