• Electronic Technician with good understanding of personal computers and MS-DOS operating system.
• AEI Maintenance I Training Course
• Course limited to 10 Students

• Notebook Computer with serial port (or USB adapter), modem, and wired LAN or Wi-Fi for each student.
• 6 foot DB9 to DB25 RS232 Cable with Null Adapter
• Communications Software (Procomm, TeraTerm, HyperTerminal, etc.)
• Conference Room.
• VGA Projector
• White Board
• APU 102 (s)
• 24 VDC Power Supply

• Orientation
• Distribute Handouts
• Current Code Disk
• FTP server
• Discuss class objectives

• Laptop Connections and Setup
• Communications Software Setup

APU Startup ROM, Ver 5.0+, ROMSHELL, NetMRS

APU-102 System File Structure

• A:
• Paths
• Default paths
• AUTOEXEC.BAT
• SPECIAL.BAT
• F.BAT, run once
• RUNONCE.BAT

APU-102 Main and System Menus

APU-102 Editing Parameters

• Session Parameters
• Acquisition Parameters
• Port Parameters, local, modem, network
• Disk Manager Parameters
• Time Zone Control Parameters
• System Diagnostic Parameters
• Uploading Parameters
• Downloading Parameters.
• Backup Parameters

Special files used on APU

• Site specific custom configuration (i.e. VIO.CFG)
• RR specific reporting files
  • Headers/Trailers
  • Access Scripts
  • S918/T94 Report configurations
• Special purpose flag files

APU-102 Diagnostics

• Lecture on APU-102 commands used for diagnosing hardware failures

Train Related Diagnostics

• Lecture describing how to diagnose consists to identify hardware problems and what action needs to be taken to correct problem.

APU-102 Software Installation

• Upgrading APU-102 software. (AEI Application is running)
• Installing APU-102 software to APU in Romshell (DOS based systems only)

Lab session:

• Upgrading APU-102 software using Local connection.
• Upgrading APU-102 software using modem.
• Upgrading APU-102 software using network connection.
• File transfers with FTP
• File transfers with WinSCP

Question and Answer Session