SuperPro. Distribution Panel. Users Guide. CSSPUGV1 11/04 Rev. A

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1 SuperPro Distribution Panel Users Guide CSSPUGV1 11/04 Rev. A

2 Congratulations on your purchase of a SuperPro Distribution Panel. Your Distribution Panel seamlessly combines both external services and internal signals to give you complete control over which signals or services are used in any location of your home or office. External Services External Services are those services that originate outside your home. The three most common services are telephone service, TV service (this may be antenna, cable or Satellite TV) and, in certain locations, high-speed Internet service. Internal Signals Internal Signals are those signals generated inside the home. Examples of Internal Signals include movies from a DVD player or VCR, pictures from a security camera at the front gate or by the swimming pool, music from your CD player or radio, or MP3 files from your computer. Another example of Internal signals is a print command sent from the laptop computer in the kitchen to the computer and printer in the home office. Your Distribution Panel collects all these types of services and signals and allows you to control where they go. If you decide to move your home office or add another computer, your Distribution Panel will allow you to quickly and conveniently reroute the desired services and signals to the new locations. In addition, built in expansion slots give you peace of mind in knowing that when new services or products become available, you can add them to your Distribution Panel. This Users Guide contains information about your Distribution Panel, its benefits, and the ways in which you can control, change or add to your Distribution Panel. Benefits of a Structured Wiring System If we compare today s home to those of the previous decade, we see many differences. One of the biggest changes we find is the amount of electronics, and the types of services that are available. Today s homes have satellite dishes, multiple computers, VCR s, TV s and stereo equipment along with services like the Internet that have brought information to us in ways we could not have imagined. These new products and services bring the need to to manage and control them. For instance, which rooms in your home or office receive telephone line 1 and which ones receive line 2? Which rooms do you want to have access to the Internet? What about controlling access to offensive or mature web pages? Which room will you be able to watch Satellite TV in? If you move your home office, can you reroute the telephone line or high-speed Internet line connected to your computer, or will you have to call the service provider and wait for them to schedule a house call? The benefit of a Structured Wiring System is that it allows you to manage signal distribution in your home and make changes as your needs change. In addition, installing telephone, data and coax lines in all the rooms of your home now saves you the time and money of trying to add wiring to your home later. Components of a Structured Wiring System There are four main components in a Structured Wiring System. The Distribution Panel The Wiring and Multi-Media Cable and Wire The Receptacles and Multi-Media Outlets System Options Distribution Panels The Distribution Panel acts as the brain of your Structured Wiring System. It collects all the incoming services and signals and routes them to the desired locations. The SuperPro Distribution panel provides you with the highest level of control and customization. These panels were designed to allow you, the homeowner, to make simple changes to your system, such as activating phone and/or TV outlets in your home, or even disconnecting or moving the signals around in the home. The design also allows your installer to make quick and easy upgrades to your system. The features that make up the system will vary from home to home depending on the services used. A SuperPro Distribution Panel includes the following features and functions. -2-

3 Zones The zone or patching area is where the telephone, data and coax wiring connect to the distribution panel. Each zone represents a location such as master bedroom, kids room, guest room, office, entertainment room, kitchen, etc. In addition, each zone has a space for a label, which is used to identify the room the zone represents. The wiring coming from the room connects to the rear of the zone area. Telephone and coax patch cords are used to patch signals from the telephone and coax distribution hubs to the zone area. Coax Distribution Hub The Coax Hub is used to distribute TV, Cable TV and Satellite TV signals to multiple locations throughout the house. In addition, the Coax Hub can distribute modulated signals from VCR s, DVD s, cameras, and even computers to multiple locations throughout the house. The Coax Hubs used in the SuperPro Distribution Panel include built in signal amplification (this keeps your picture clear and strong) and surge suppression. Telephone Distribution Hub The Telephone Distribution Hub is used to distribute both voice (telephone) and data (fax machines and computers) signals. The Telephone Distribution Hub provided with the SuperPro Distribution Panel includes an Amphenol connector (this provides a connection point for upgraded telephone systems), Surge Suppression and a built in RJ31X port for connection to a Security system. Each Telephone Distribution Hub can distribute four voice or data lines to 11 locations. Expansion Slots Expansion slots provide room for adding additional components to your Distribution Panel, either at the time of installation, or at a later date. Optional Modules include high-speed Internet access, computer networking, video distribution, satellite TV, home automation, distributed home audio, etc. Wiring and Multi-Media Cable One of the most important components of a Structured Wiring System is the wiring. For example, having a high-speed Internet modem will do you no good if the wire can t process the information fast enough. When it comes to your wiring, you need to ask two questions. How much information can my wire handle (known as bandwidth) and how fast can it handle it (known as through-put)? Receptacles and Multi-Media Outlets The telephone, data, TV and Multi-Media outlets are where you plug in your phones, computers TV s and other electronics. Your Structured Wiring System will probably consist of a variety of receptacles. These receptacles may have 1,2,3,4 or 6 connection points on them. In addition, these receptacles can be custom configured to provide the type of connectivity you need in each room. They are installed at convenient locations throughout the home. A common Multi-Media outlet would be configured as follows: -3-

4 1. Two RJ45 telecom ports (accept standard telephone jack inserts) used for single or multiple line telephones, dedicated fax lines, dedicated modem lines, or data. 2. Two fiber optic jacks (optional). Used for hooking computers together for high-speed communications, phone lines, and TV video signals. 3. Two RG6 coax TV jacks ( F connectors) used for video (cable TV, antenna, satellite, cable modem, and internal video). Safety Features of Your Distribution Panel Testing Phone Signal and Surge Suppression Your SuperPro Distribution Panel provides surge suppression for both telephone and coax signals and can withstand most of the daily surges and spikes. The surge suppression board contains resetable transorbs, which will reset after a spike or surge. However, if your home receives an unusually large spike, or is struck directly by lighting, the surge suppression board may blow. If the spike or surge is strong enough to blow the transorb, then you will need to replace it. If your phones are working following a lighting storm or power surge, the transorbs have reset themselves. If your phones are not working the following steps should be followed to determine if the transorbs have blown. 1. Locate a standard telephone (one that does not require power). 2. Locate the Service Input Hub on your Distribution Panel 3. On the Service Input Hub of your Distribution Panel there are two telephone connections. A short telephone patch cord that is plugged into one of these connections is connected to the Telephone Distribution Hub. Unplug the short telephone patch cord from the telephone connection on the Service Input hub and plug in your standard telephone. 5. If a dial tone is present the transorbs have blown and the surge suppression board on your Telephone Distribution Hub requires replacement (part # TPSSB, Quantity of 2). 6. If no dial tone is present, you will need to contact your local telephone company. Note: Ask the telephone company to walk you through a dial-tone test at the Demarc box first. If the telephone company determines that the problem is the wiring inside your home, they may charge you a fee to fix it. Performing the dial-tone test at the Demarc box will confirm whether the problem is within the house wiring or not. Only an authorized Installer should perform surge suppression board replacements. -4-

5 How Signals Flow Through a Distribution Panel Understanding how signals flow through your Structured Wiring System will help you perform basic functions like rerouting signals or adding additional points of service. The following is a basic overview of how signals enter and flow through your home. 1. Telephone and TV signals enter your home at a box called the Demarcation Box. 2. Once these signals and services are connected to the Demarcation Box, a Multi-Media cable is used to connect the Demarcation box to the Distribution Panel. This is referred to as the Demarcation run. 3. With the Demarcation Run connected at the distribution panel, we can now connect the Wiring and Multi-Media cable running to the receptacles in each room, creating the roadway for signals to travel. 4. At the receptacle location, we use telephone and TV patch cords to connect from the receptacles to the equipment in the room. -5-

6 Telephone Signal Management One of the Distribution Hubs on your SuperPro Distribution Panel is the Telephone Distribution Hub (labeled as TP Distribution Hub). This hub can distribute up to four telephone lines to 11 locations. The accompanying diagram shows how signals flow through the Telephone Distribution Hub. 1. Your installer connected the incoming telephone lines to the two telephone connections on the Service Input Hub (this connection was made on the back side of the Service Input Hub). Lines 1 and 2 are connected to the second telephone connection. Line 3, which will be used as a dedicated line for a computer or fax machine, is connected to the first telephone connection. 2. A short patch cord is used to patch lines 1 and 2 to the Telephone Distribution Hub. The Telephone Distribution Hub acts as a splitter and connects the signals that have been patched into port one (in this case lines 1 and 2), are available as outputs on ports Using longer patch cords, lines 1 and 2 are routed betweenthe Telephone Distribution Hub and the Zones on the upper portion of the Distribution Panel. Separating Multiple Lines at the Room Location The Line Breakout Box (part # LBO1) provides an easy way to separate and access up to four individual phone lines at any Multi-Media Outlet or a standard telephone outlet location. The LBO1 can be added anytime, and can be attached directly to the Multi-Media or Telephone outlet by replacing the bottom screw in the receptacle with a double-headed screw (supplied with the LBO1) and hanging the LBO1 from the Receptacle. In addition, by using a longer patch cord, the LBO1 can be placed on the desktop or any other convenient location. Once the LBO1 is installed on the bottom of the receptacle, a short patch cord (supplied with the LBO1) is used to connect from the telephone port on the receptacle to the L1-L4 Input on the LBO1. The LBO1 separates the 4 incoming telephone lines and sends them to the 4 ports on the bottom of the LBO1. As you can see in the diagram below, the port on the far right is for line one (this port also can be used for two line telephones), the second port from the right is line 2, the third port from the right is line 3, and the port on the left is for line 4. You will also notice a pass thru port on the left hand side. This allows all four lines to pass to another device or to another LBO1 Line Breakout Box. -6-

7 TV Signal Management 1. Your installer ran a RG6 coax cable from the demarcation point to the Coax input on the rear of the service input hub. 2. The coax wires coming from the rooms in your home are connected to the coax outputs on the front of the distribution hub. 3. Longer patch cords are used to patch from the coax distribution hub output to the coax connections on the zones above -7-

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