Section 5: Configuring The Rf Communications; Rf Channel Selection - Honeywell XYR 5000 series User Manual

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Section 5: Configuring the RF Communications

! Warning
Warning! If the Transmitters have been running
for an extended period of time with no signal
from the Base Radio (the Base Radio is off or not
present), the Transmitters will only search for the
Base Radio every one hour or so. Turning the
Transmitters off and back on will cause them to
begin searching immediately.

5.1: RF Channel Selection

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In order for the Transmitter and the Base Radio to communicate, they
must be on the same RF Channel and must be transmitting at the same
Baud Rate. While all Transmitters and Base Radios are set to default con-
figurations at the factory, if any configuration differences are present, the
Base Radio will not be able to communicate with the Transmitters. The
subsections are as follows:
5.1: RF Channel Setup
5.2: RF Baud Rate Setup
5.3: RF Identification Setup
The RF Channel defines a set of frequencies on which communication
takes place between the Base Radio and the Transmitter. Each RF Channel
has a different set of frequencies, thus allowing the user to have multiple
different wireless networks co-existing throughout the same facility.
All Base Radios and Transmitters can be set to one of 16 different RF
channels. The only Transmitters recognized by a particular Base Radio are
the units that are on the same RF Channel as that Base Radio. This allows
the user to decide which Transmitters communicate with each Base Radio.
The RF Channel can be thought of as a set of walkie-talkies. If both
walkie-talkies are on channel one they can communicate. If a walkie-
talkie is on channel one and the other is on channel two, they cannot com-
municate. Likewise, if two walkie-talkies are on channel one and two
other walkie-talkies are on channel two, the walkie-talkies on channel one
cannot hear what is being transmitted by the walkie-talkies on channel
two.
Each Transmitter comes from the factory with the RF Channel set to OFF.
This means the Transmitter will not communicate to any Base Radio. To
set the Transmitter for communication, first determine the channel that
you want to use. Then follow the Transmitter menu map shown in Figure
5.1 to configure the RF Channel.
Figure 5.1: Menu Map to RF Channel Setting
Once in the RF Channel menu, increment it by pressing the NEXT button.
When selecting this value, do not choose an RF Channel that is currently
being used by other Honeywell Wireless Systems as this can cause com-
munication problems.
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