Installation guide

Software Configuration—Overview
The PagePac Plus Controller is pre-programmed with certain default
values when shipped, However, not all paging systems will have the
same requirements, and therefore you (or the installation technician) may
want or need to change the options on the system.
Some of the various programming configurations, which are presented in
detail later in this section, include:
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The ability to option a zone as an audio output zone, as either of two
levels of input zone, or as an output contact-closure zone.
If a zone is optioned as a paging zone or a switch-closure zone, then
other options are available, such as zone grouping.
Zone groups and individual zones can be configured to perform a
variety of functions such as page enabled/ disabled or talk-back
enabled/disabled.
If a zone is selected to be input, then options may be selected such as
energizing an output switch-closure zone(s), whenever the input is
active, or a selected tone can be sent out to selected zones whenever
the input is active.
If multiple zones are configured as inputs with the same priority (for
example, two zones coded l-l ), access will be granted on a first-come,
first-sewed basis.
Zone mapping is also permitted.
Zone Group versus Individual Zones
The PagePac Plus Controller can be optioned at two different levels, Zone
Group and Individual Zone programming. Zone group configurations will
override individual zone configurations whenever a zone group is selected.
At Power Up
When the PagePac Plus Controller is first powered up, it polls the zones to
determine how many (if any) zone expansion units are present. The
PagePac Pius has the capacity to serially access up to 48 external zones.
The Zone Option switches, both on the controller and on any attached
Zone Expansion Units, must be set before the PagePac Plus system is
powered up, and therefore before programming commences.
2-4 Programming The Controller