WaveWare Adaptive AlphaNet - Manual (Page 15)

How to change a sign’s serial address
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How to change a sign’s serial address
What is a serial address?
An Alpha® sign has a feature which allows a unique number or serial
address (address, for short) to be assigned to the sign. This address
permits you to send messages to an individual sign on a network.
All Alpha® signs leave the factory with a default address of 00.
However, another address—such as 01, 02, 03, and so on—can be given
to a sign. Addresses for signs should be assigned using either a remote
control or through the Diagnostics component of the AlphaNET™
software. Addresses should also be assigned before setting up connection
devices, sites, and groups so that messages go to the correct signs.
For example, at the company used in the next sections’s tutorial,
several signs are connected to a network (below), and each of these signs
is given a unique address so a message can be sent to a particular sign:
A b o u t A d d r e s s 0 0
If more than one sign will be
connected to a connection
device (modem, wireless, or
local connection), then give
each sign a unique address,
such as 01, 02, 03, and so on.
Otherwise, sending a
message to the sign with
address 00 will also send the
message to all other
connected signs.
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04
05
These three signs all have
unique addresses (03, 04, and
05) so a message can be sent
to only one of them.