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Getting Started
This guide assumes the tasks on the following list have been completed. Review
the list carefully. If you have not completed the tasks on the list, do so now.
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Make sure the necessary wiring is in place.
You must have a network interface that links your
MERLIN
system to the
local telephone company’s lines. A telephone company representative
should have installed your outside lines and labeled the network interface
to indicate the telephone number for each outside line.
You must also have wiring that connects your voice terminal locations to
your control unit location. If your voice terminal locations are close enough
to your control unit to make direct connection practical, you may have
planned to connect your voice terminals directly to the control unit with
modular voice terminal cords and, if necessary, modular voice terminal
extension cords. If you are planning to connect your voice terminals directly
to the control unit, this guide tells you how to do so at the appropriate point
in the installation sequence.
If conditions at your business make direct connections between your voice
terminal locations and your control unit location impractical, then you have
connected the locations through the building wiring. You may have had
the necessary wiring professionally installed, or perhaps you did the wir-
ing yourself following the instructions in the Wiring Installation Kit. In either
case, you should now have building wiring that runs from the voice ter-
minal locations to the control unit location. The wiring runs should end in
modular wall jacks at the voice terminal locations and in a group of jacks
mounted in one or two jack panel boxes (the “jack field”) at the control
unit location. Inside the right door (the one with the handle) of each jack
panel box you should find a label indicating the wiring run number and
endpoint location (for example, “w1 Reception area”) for each jack in the
jack field.
The drawing, top right, shows a direct connection between a voice terminal
and the control unit. The drawing, bottom right, shows a voice terminal con-
nected to the control unit through the building wiring.
Control
unit
Voice terminal
Modular voice terminal cord
Control unit
Jack field
Voice terminal
Building
wiring
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