Instruction Manual

MCN System Manual Hardware Installation

CTI Products, Inc.

68-10833-120

7.1.1 Address Planning

To help organize the MCN system, we have provided the following guidelines for

assigning unit addresses:

• Assign all Comparator I/O Modules to the same Group or set of

Groups (if you have more than 16 modules), typically beginning with

Group 00, Module 0 and progressing sequentially. Although modules

can be added at higher addresses later, if you have plans to expand a

channel, you may want to leave a module addresses open for the

expansion.

• Assign all User Interface Modules to the same Group or set of Groups

(if you have more than 16 modules), beginning with Group 80, Module

• If you have multiple MCN systems in remote locations and you plan to

tie them together with a EXB Module, use unique addresses

throughout all your systems. Start the Comparator I/O modules and

User Interface Modules at each location with new group numbers.

This will allow you to connect the systems without re-addressing the

modules.

• When using the HIB User Interface Module with the MCN Remote

Comparator Display software, only four Groups can be monitored and

controlled at a time on one PC. If you are going to be using this User

Interface Module, plan the addresses of your Comparator I/O modules

so that you use as few different Groups as possible.

• In a large system, you can monitor and control more than 4 Groups on

a PC using the HIB; you are just limited to 4 groups simultaneously.

For these types of large systems, group your modules so that all the

receivers you may want to watch simultaneously are within the same 4

groups.