Belden Miranda NV9640A, User Manual

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NV9640A
User’s Guide
Regions of the Configuration Page
Above the ‘Revert to Saved’ and ‘Save’ buttons (always present) there are 5 main regions:
• A graphic representation of the NV9640A panel.
On the right are 30 LCD function buttons. Click on a button to assign a function to it. In some
cases, you can click or double-click certain buttons to execute the button function. Double-
clicking a ‘Navigate’ button, for instance, causes the button’s “subpage” to appear.
Double-clicking a ‘Page Up’ or ‘Page Down’ button allows you to scroll through multi-desti-
nation pages that are represented in the image of the alphanumeric page.
Buttons can be illuminated in several colors: green, amber, yellow, red, blue, purple, and
grey. There are 3 levels of illumination: high tally (bright), low tally (muted) and off. Unde-
fined buttons are turned off (dark) on the actual panel and are gray in the configuration
page.
S Buttons disabled during operation have text, but are dark on the control panel. Unde-
fined buttons are dark and have no text.
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Button definitions.
In this section, configurers make button assignments, using its pull-down menus and text
fields.
See Button Definitions , following.
• Button page table.
This section — the region below the button definition section — displays a list of the individ-
ual pages of the tree structure. The button page at the top of the list (or root of the tree) is
called “Default.”
During operation, category buttons can display device subpages when pressed. Those sub-
pages are not definable in NV9000-SE Utilities. The button page list does not display the
device subpages accessed through category buttons. Category buttons can also display suf-
fix pages when pressed. Suffix pages are included in the button page table.
See Button Page List on page 34.
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GPIO definitions.
In this section, configurers may define GPIO logic. The control panel has a rear connector
that provides 4 relay outputs and 8 optically isolated inputs. See
GPIO , page 75, for more
information. (Note that the graphical buttons represent connector terminals and not actual
buttons.)
• Panel options.
In this section, configurers may specify the behavioral characteristics of the panel.
Configuration Tasks
The person configuring an NV9640A panel will want to consider how best to use the hierarchical
nature of the button tree to support the devices and routers in the router control system at
hand. The task is non-trivial.
In support of that effort, the configurer will do the following:
• Select panel options.
• Assign functions to buttons.