Specifications

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Installation and Configuration

General

Please call us when you are ready to install the card.

Before installing the card, we must decide which slot it will go in, which will determine

the setting of the address switches on the upper front of the Multiport card.

The Multiport card goes into any available peripheral slot, just as if you are adding a

Trunk or Station card. Typically, it will simply be placed in the next free peripheral slot,

somewhere between slots 6 and 10 on a Model 2100, or 7 and 16 on a Model 2200, or 4

and 13 on a Model 2200EX. When you call, we will decide with you on a slot, then tell

you how to set the switches to match the slot number (in binary).

Unlike Trunks and Stations, the Multiport card has its own connector - it does not use the

existing black connectors on the lower backplane of the paging terminal, instead it uses its

own separate blue 50-pin connector assembly.

You can have us configure the software on the paging terminal either before you do the

hardware installation, or after. It does not matter as long as the card’s address switches are

set correctly when installed.

Information Needed

For software configuration, we need only the following from you:

• The address switch setting for the card, as mentioned previously.

• The serial parameters you want to use - baud rate, word size, and parity.

• A brief description of what you are connecting to.

Hardware Installation

• Call us with the information called out in the preceding list. We will tell you how to

set the switches on the Multiport card. We can do the software update of the paging

terminal now, or after you install the hardware.

• Turn power off to paging terminal. Remove the front cover.

• Mount the new blue 50-conductor cable/connector assembly along the lower

backplane. You will see that the spacing of two of the screws that hold the lower

edge of the backplane to the chassis matches the spacing of the mounting holes on

the blue connector. Remove those two screws, and replace them with the supplied

Warning! Never insert or remove a card in a 2000 Series paging terminal

without first turning off the power!

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