About The Software; System Requirements - Viking PB-100 Application Note

H a r d w a r e
H a r d w a r e
The PB-100 comes complete with a telco cord, serial cable, audio cables and a 12V DC power adapter.
Step 1. Using the telco cord, connect a phone line to the rear panel jack labeled "LINE". If the PB-100 is to be used in series with
another piece of equipment, the telecom device can be plugged into the "PHONE" jack.
Step 2. Connect one end of the 9 pin serial cable into the jack labeled "SERIAL DATA" and the other end into an open serial port
of the P.C.
Step 3. If audio is to be used through the PB-100, connect the "Audio Out" port of the sound card to the "AUDIO IN" port of the
PB-100, and "Audio In" or "Mic In" of the sound card to the "AUDIO OUT" port of the PB-100.
Step 4. Plug the 12V DC power adapter (included) into the rear panel power jack.
Rear View of the P.C.
Serial
Port
S o f t w a r e
S o f t w a r e
A. About the Software
This software package was developed for use in conjunction with the Viking Electronics PB-100 polling box. The PB-
100 is a multipurpose device capable of performing a large variety of equipment and personnel polling duties. The PB-
100 polling software directly supports the polling of any telecom device capable of returning DTMF Touch Tones, specif-
ically the 1600A Series Emergency Phones.
Each PB-100 data file has the capacity to store information for up to 500 unique devices, any or all of which may be
scheduled for polling on a timed basis. Since you may have multiple data files, the total number of polled devices is
essentially unlimited.
Important: Limitations are introduced by the logistics of dialing a number of devices at a particular time. For exam-
ple: if 15 different devices are scheduled for polling at 3:00pm, devices 2-15 device will naturally receive polling some
time later than 3:00pm. If each polling event takes an average of 1 minute, device 15 will be polled sometime around
3:15pm. If new polling events are scheduled for 3:15pm, the new events will be integrated and polled with the 3:00pm
group, already in progress. It is important to keep these practical limits in mind when setting up your polling sched-
ule(s).
Note: The Polling Software will ONLY install and/or run on the Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, or 2000 platforms with
the PB-100 hardware attached.
B. System Requirements
1. Hardware Requirements
• IBM Compatible personal computer with: Windows 95, 98 or ME (with OLE32 updates), Windows NT 4.0 (service
pack 6 or higher), Windows 2000 (service pack 2 or higher).
• PB-100 hardware.
• Available RS-232 serial port.
• Male sub-D 9 pin cable (provided with PB-100 hardware).
• Windows compatible sound card.
• 5MB minimum free hard drive space for each installation.
• 8MB of free physical RAM for each Viking application running.
I n s t a l l a t i o
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Rear View of the
PB-100
RS-232 Serial Cable
Telecom Device
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PHONE
SERIAL DATA
AUDIO AUDIO
(RS-232)
IN OUT
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USE ONLY LISTED
CLASS 2 POWER
LINE
SOURCE 12VDC
O.5A MAX 12V DC Adapter
Phone Line
120V AC
(included)