Chapter 4: TL500A Program Registers

REGISTER 06 — Night Watch Mode Rings

This Register contains the number of rings to the phone device port after Night Watch Mode (Register 05) has been activated. This number is usually less than register 05 but can range from 1 to 15. Factory preset is 2 rings.

REGISTER 07 — Emergency Barge In

This register contains the mask that determines if Devices 1, 2, 3, and 4 can barge in and gain access to the telephone line by going off-hook during a call. The four mask bits can be set to any combination of values, allowing all, some, or none of Devices 1 through 4 access to the line during an emergency or to just have priority.

NOTE: When programming this register, you must enter all Flag (Bit) values. The flags are preset to the following:

Flag 1 (Bit 3) Device 4 Barge-in Mask 0 (off)

Flag 2 (Bit 2) Device 3 Barge-in Mask 0 (off)

Flag 3 (Bit 1) Device 2 Barge-in Mask 0 (off)

Flag 4 (Bit 0) Device 1 Barge-in Mask 0 (off)

Register 8 must also be set to a positive number to activate barge-in.

REGISTER 08 — Barge-In Time

This register contains the amount of time that a telephone receiver must be held off-hook to “barge-in” on a call. The range of this register is 0 (off) to 15 with a 2-second multiplier for each digit. Factory preset to 0 (off).

REGISTER 09 — Security Programming Time Window

This register contains the number of minutes that the TL500A will accept the programming code once power has been applied to the unit. The range of this register is 0 to 15. Factory preset to 0 (allows programming at all times).

REGISTER 10 — Seizure Time

This register contains the maximum number of seconds the TL500A will hold the phone line, during a multiple polling sequence after a device has been disconnected. This register ranges from 10 to 99. Factory preset to 25 (no ring back is provided to caller during this time).

NOTE: TL500A-9 uses Registers 1–15 plus 26–29, TL500A-5 uses Registers 11–15, and TL500A-3 uses Registers 11–13 only for Device Codes.

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TL500A, phone line sharing device specifications

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