User Manual

PAC Portico 2200/1200 Series Installation Guide 15263 Ver 2.1 DRAFT E
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• From a PC running PAC Portico Prism software via a dial-up modem. This can control up to 32 doors
with a PAC Portico 2200 as the master plus up to 7 slave door controllers.
Operating from a CNC administered by a PC, each CNC will support up to 128 sites of which:
• PAC Portico for Windows site 1 is always the six wire bus- there are no master controllers on a CNC
six wire bus; only slaves.
• PAC Portico for Windows sites 2-33 are RS- 232 cluster sites with 1 master door controller and up to
7 slave door controllers per site.
• PAC Portico for Windows sites 34-128 are RS-232 sites with only 1 master door controller and no
slave door controllers per site.
• PAC Portico Prism site 1 is always the six wire bus- there is no master controller on a CNC six wire
bus only slaves.
• PAC Portico Prism sites 2-128 are RS-232 and can be any combination of single controller or cluster
sites.
Operating as a slave, the door controller can be administered:
• From another door controller configured as a master.
• From a PC running administration software connected to the CNC six wire bus (site 1).
1.2.2 Door Controllers
The door controller itself is made up of 4 individual components:
Secured to the metal base plate are the 110/240V power supply and main circuit board. Fitted to the
main circuit board is a secondary “cover” board that protects the main board and has a label that identifies
the various connectors on the main board. Attached to this is the memory module containing the
software and database memory. Across the whole unit is a removable front panel with built-in key reader,
keypad and display.
Note
The PAC Portico 2200IP/1200IP Series have a TCP/IP interface fitted in the door controller.
All connections are made to the door controller using removable terminal blocks.
Note
All controllers are available without a front panel. However, at least one front panel is required to
configure the controllers in the system.
The door controller is the heart of the access control system and it:
• Decides whether a person has access at a particular door and at a particular time.
• Provides power to operate the lock and readers.
• Monitors doors for unauthorized access or door left open.
• Automatically unlocks and locks doors at certain times.
• Detects tamper conditions at the reader or its enclosure.
• Controls the 8 on-board relays.
• Programs and monitors any Alarm Event Modules (AEMs) that may be fitted.
What makes the door controllers so flexible is the ability to link controllers together to allow more doors to
be administered. The number of doors that can be administered and the maximum number of personnel
that can be controlled, depends on the type of administration system, see Section 2.
Door controllers are connected together using PAC Portico's six wire bus. This is a proprietary
communications link that uses standard six-conductor signal or alarm cable. For full details, see Section
3.1. Each group of door controllers connected using the six wire bus requires one master controller and
one or more slave controllers.
IMPORTANT
Every PAC Portico 2200/1200 Series Door Controller can be configured as a master or slave. You
do not need to purchase different types of door controller.