Rotel For 4 RMZ-955s 13-16 zones, Exception Multiple IR Flood Emitters, Paging Connections

MULTI-ROOM SYSTEM CONTROLLER RMZ-955

For 4 RMZ-955s (13-16 zones):

•Remove the jumpers between terminals 2 and 3 of the TX FOR- MAT blocks on RMZ-955 “B” and “C” and “D” to disable their flood emitters. Leave the jumper in place on the first RMZ-955 “A” to use its front-panel flood emitter. Remove this jumper to disable the flood emitter when using back panel IR repeaters.

•Connect terminal 3 of the RMZ-955 “D” TX FORMAT block to terminal 4 on RMZ-955 “C”.

•Connect terminal 3 of the RMZ-955 “C” TX FORMAT block to terminal 4 on RMZ-955 “B”.

•Connect terminal 3 of the RMZ-955 “B” TX FORMAT block to terminal 4 on RMZ-955 “C”. This completes the signal link to the IR flood emitter on RMZ-955 “A” from the other two RMZ-955s.

RMZ-955	RMZ-955	RMZ-955	RMZ-955
"A"	"B"	"C"	"D"
TX-FORMAT	TX-FORMAT	TX-FORMAT	TX-FORMAT
1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6

For example, the gray jumper wire in the following illustration is used to activate the front-panel flood emitter on RMZ-955 “B” in addition to “A”.

RMZ-955		RMZ-955		RMZ-955		RMZ-955
	"A"		"B"		"C"		"D"
TX-FORMAT		TX-FORMAT		TX-FORMAT		TX-FORMAT
1 2 3 4 5 6		1 2 3 4 5 6		1 2 3 4 5 6		1 2 3 4 5 6

Use this jumper arrangement to enable the front panel IR flood emitters on the first two RMZ-955s.

Here, the gray jumper wire is used to activate the flood emitter on all four RMZ-955 controllers:

RMZ-955 RMZ-955 RMZ-955 RMZ-955

"A" "B" "C" "D"

Use this jumper arrangement with 4 RMZ-955 controllers. Disables the IR flood emitters on all but the first controller. Remove gray jumper if using back panel IR repeaters from the first RMZ-955 instead of the flood emitter.

TX-FORMAT	TX-FORMAT	TX-FORMAT	TX-FORMAT
1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6

Use this jumper arrangement to enable the front panel IR flood emitters on all four RMZ-955s.

Exception: Multiple IR Flood Emitters

As stated above, the general practice is to send IR commands to the source components from only the first RMZ-955 and to dis- able the flood emitters on all other RMZ-955 controllers. The pur- pose of this rule is to prevent IR signals from two different flood emitters interfering with each other and confusing the source component.

An exception to this general rule might arise in systems where some source components are housed in one closed cabinet and others in a different closed cabinet. In this case, you may wish to use two or more RMZ-955 controllers, one in each cabinet, to distribute the IR signals from their flood emitters to the source components.

This can be accomplished with a jumper wire from Terminal 2 of the first RMZ-955’s TX-Form block to Terminal 2 on any other RMZ-955 that needs to have its front-panel flood emitter acti- vated.

Paging Connections

When using the Paging feature in a multi-controller system, two additional installation steps are required. See page 11 for an overview of the paging feature.

a)To trigger the muting and/or paging function, it is necessary to connect the Paging Trigger input to all RMZ-955 controllers. This requires making multiple connections from whatever device or mechanism is used to supply a shorting input.

b)For announcements to be heard in all zones connected to all RMZ-955s, the paging audio signal must be distributed to all con- trollers. This can be done by connecting the Paging Audio Output on the first RMZ-955 to the Paging Audio Input on the second RMZ-955, using a standard RCA to RCA interconnect cable. Re- peat this connection from the second to the third controller and from the third to the fourth, if necessary.

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