INSTALLATION & COMMISSIONING MANUAL
OVERVIEW 3
CHAMELEON NETWORK KEY FEATURES 3
MULTI MASTER 3
NETWORKABLE PANELS 3
SYSTEM LIMITATIONS 4
TERMS and DEFINITIONS 4
IDENTIFYING COMPONENTS and COMMUNICATIONS 5
COMMUNICATION INTERFACES 7
INSTALLATION 8
INTRODUCTION 8
Mains Power connection 8
Control Panels and Repeaters Location 8
CHAMELEON NETWORK TOPOLOGY 9
Closed Loop Network example 9
Open Loop Network example 10
Mesh Network example 10
Extended display example (on non networked systems) 11
PANEL CONNECTIONS 12
RS422 connections example 13
FIBRE-OPTIC connections example 13
CHAMELEON REPEATER with double RS422 interface 15
Single TCP/IP Peer to Peer Connection 16
RECOMMENDED CABLES 16
COMMISSIONING 17
INTRODUCTION 17
GETTING THE PANEL/REPEATER RUNNING 17
NETWORK FUNCTIONS 18
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