ACC RC-96 Owner's Manual page 121

Chapter Ten: In Case of
Difficulty
It's programming the E2PROM which takes about 100 ms per
byte. The Special ID, as an example, will take ahnost 5 seconds
to program -
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nonnal.
If the Touch-Tone Access Mode is enabled but down, will a
reverse patch come through? '
Yes. A reverse patch will bring up the IT Access Mode and
load the Touch-Tone Access Mode timer. Assuming the timer is
non-zero, it will time itself back down if there's no activity.
Sometimes when entering the Link Receive Only command,
the controller reads back the frequency and other times it
reads back "Receive". What is the rule? '
If the frequency is set to allzeros,.it says, "Receive". Otherwise
it reads back the frequency.
When making a patch; there'sa:slightlylonger delay until it
starts to dial. Why?
To avoid falsing the phone company's Touch-Tone decoder, the
controller waits until it's finished "talking" before going offhook.
Then it waits 1.5 seconds before starting to dial.
The controller doesn't always ID when the Touch-Tone
Access Mode goes down. How come?
Generally it will ID when going down only when it's necessary,
i.e., there has been some activity since the last ID. For example,
if the Touch-Tone Access Mode timer is set to 20 minutes, if no
activity causes it to time out, it won't generally be necessary to
ID because it would have completed the ID cycle several minutes
earlier.
What's the patch Activity Timer for?
The activity timer causes a patch to be terminated if the mobile
drives out of range or otherwise goes away. The timer resets at
the beginning and end of each transmission. If it's allowed to
time out (no carrier or stuck carrier), there's a warning warble,
and.if there's still no "activity" within 10 seconds, it will hang
up. The patch' activity timer can be used along with, or instead
of, the overall patch timers.
Some voices seem to false the Touch-Tone decoder. How can
this be changed?
One end of diode CR16 can be lifted. This slows the Touch­
Tone decoder from decoding 20 digits/second to 10 digits/
second.
When I change the courtesy tone, the controller says, '·'CT",
but the courtesy tone doesn't change. Why?
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