Honeywell SuperPro User Guide

SuperPro

Distribution Panel

Users Guide

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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.

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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:

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