User's Manual

InterReach Fusion Installation, Operation, and Reference Manual 7-1
D-620610-0-20 Rev D CONFIDENTIAL
SECTION 7 Installing Fusion
This section contains the following subsections:
• Section 7.1 Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
• Section 7.2 Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
• Section 7.3 Preparing for System Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
• Section 7.4 Fusion Installation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
• Section 7.5 Splicing Fiber Optic Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-43
• Section 7.6 Interfacing the Fusion Main Hub to an RF Source . . . . . . . . . . 7-45
• Section 7.7 Connecting Contact Alarms to a Fusion System . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-55
• Section 7.8 Alarm Monitoring Connectivity Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-61
7.1 Installation Requirements
Before and during installation, keep in mind these sources of potential problems:
• Faulty cabling/connector
• Dirty connectors and ports
• Malfunction of one or more Fusion components
• Antenna, base station, or repeater problem
• External RF interface
• Tripped circuit breaker
• Equipment is not grounded
• Using a crossover Ethernet cable that does not support full hardware handshaking
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