CTI Products MCN RCD System Overview - Manual (Page 24)

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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
0.
• 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.