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First-Fix Instructions

Contents:
Method of installation
Central Services
Type of cable
Required types of Back Box and Codes
Product Model Numbers with Box Code

Method of installation

printed circuit boardsAddressable Receiver Units, Display Units, Intelligent Over Door Lights and Communications Units must be wired on the Data Ring.

Receiver Units to be programmed as Slaves (sharing an address of another) and Patient Call Buttons are spurred from the Addressable Receiver Units.

Over Door Lights are spurred from a Receiver Unit.

There should be no more than 40 units of any kind attached to one ring.

Rings should be no more than 250m in total length.

research and developmentAll Receiver Units should, wherever possible, be located centrally on the ceiling. No Receiver Unit should be located closer than 1500mm from a fluorescent light.
Receiver Units located in corridors or large rooms should be spaced not more than 20 metres apart to give best coverage. In external areas Receivers should be spaced no more than 10-15 m depending on conditions.

DO NOT run the Data Ring near mains cables or mains switching equipment.

The Display Units should preferably be located 1500mm above floor-level or satisfactory eye level.

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Central Services
Power Supplies/Data Ring Junction Boxes should be located centrally on the installation, providing the shortest Data and power routes to all locations and thus minimising any power losses in the cable.

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Type of cable
All connections MUST be made using Pinpoint cable. Product Model 708A.
For external use Product Model 709.

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Required types of Back Box and Codes:
BOX CODEFLUSH FITSURFACE FIT
AMK866ZIC
Single Gang 35mm Deep
CENTAUR SBR/3
Single Gang 32mm Deep
BMK877ZIC
Single Gang 46mm Deep
CENTAUR SBR/9
Single Gang 44mm Deep
CMK886ZIC
Double Gang 35mm Deep
CENTAUR SBR/4 *
Double Gang 32mm Deep
DMK878ZIC
Double Gang 47mm Deep
CENTAUR SBR/10
Double Gang 44mm Deep
PPSUPPLIED BY PINPOINTSUPPLIED BY PINPOINT
* For Flush Fit in suspended ceiling use NEWLEC Dry Lining Boxes, 35mm Deep.

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Product Model Numbers with Box Code:
317A637D353.5PP
492C132C353.7D
493C132.1C391.1PP
493.1C132.2C391.2PP
493.2C132.3C391.3PP
592C133A392PP
594C133.1A360A
594.1C133.2A360.1A
594.2C133.3A360.2A
690C133.4A360.3A
692C219C360.5A
332A296C360.6A
333A476C363PP
434PP476.1C365B
434.1PP476.2C367C
435PP349B373B
435.1PP349.1C373.2B
534PP349.2C374B
534.1PP349.3C178C
535PP349.5C296C
535.1PP350PP 
636D353.3/4A

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N.B. If conduit is to be used then 25mm conduit is recommended. This may need to be larger at a Junction Box because of the number of cables.



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