Addressing The Pcx-Prox/Ext - Pyronix PCX-256 Installation Manual

10.7.3 Addressing the PCX-PROX/EXT

The brown, green and orange wires are used to address the external proximity reader. Depending
on which wires are shorted to ground (black wire) or left floating, the proximity reader can be
addressed as shown in the table below:
Key: GND = shorted to ground, NU = Not Used – leave disconnected
NOTE: The proximity reader is addressed in the same number sequence as keypads and
internal tag readers.
*Address 0 is not used (reserved for principal keypad).
Make sure that the reader is addressed correctly in the engineers menu as well (Assign
The external proximity reader comes complete with 3m of cable, for connecting to a junction box.
The colour coding of the cable is as follows:
Red K+
Black K-
Yellow 'A'
'B'
Blue
White Not Used
Brown Used for addressing
Green Used for addressing
Orange Used for addressing
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Address Brown
0* GND
1 GND
2 GND
3 GND
4 NU
5 NU
6 NU
7 NU
Keypads/Readers)
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Orange Green
GND GND
GND NU
NU GND
NU NU
GND GND
GND NU
NU GND
NU NU
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