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F3200 Installation & Programming Manual Document No: LT0122
Network Programming
Page 11-2 5 July 2001 Issue 2.7
11.1 INTRODUCTION
11.1.1 PANEL-LINK NETWORK
Networking enables up to 64 F3200 FIPs to be interconnected via single or duplicated 2 wire
connections, and information to be exchanged between FIPs.
Alarms occurring on any FIP on the network may be displayed and acknowledged on the
LCD FFCIF of any other FIP. Similarly output logic variables are available on the network,
enabling data from any FIP to be used as input parameters in logic equations on any other
FIP in the system.
Commands can be entered at one networked F3200 to reset, isolate, de-isolate, test and
recall/search for status for zones on other networked FIPs.
Networked F3200s can also send and receive system commands from the network such as
isolation/de-isolation of bells, system test and bells test.
Intended usages for the Panel-Link are:
(i) Connection of two or more fire panels together to share data and expand fire panel
capability, either by co-locating two systems, or having them geographically
separate.
(ii) Connection of printers, BMS systems and PCs using Vigilant PTM or PMB to receive
data from panels on the network.
(iii) Connection of a Fire Panel to an Evacuation System for network connection initiation
of evacuation sequences.
To enable FIPs to be identified on the network, each FIP is configured with a System
Identification Number (or SID) in the range 1 to 254. This number must be unique for each
device on the network.
11.1.2 NETWORK APPLICATION OVERVIEW
The main benefits of networking F3200s are the sharing of zone, event and alarm
information, the ability to remotely control other F3200s, and overall, to expand the size of an
F3200 system beyond 64 zones.
F3200s are programmable in a number of ways to customise the type of information to be
shared, how it is to be shared, and the extent to which remote control is permitted.
The Network Configuration menu is Option 7 in the Program Data menu (as is shown in
Figure 6.1.2C). It allows programming of the parameters which determine the way the
F3200 networking operates.