Lucent Technologies 555-661-140 manual Supplemental Alerts, Supplemental Alert Adapter

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 6.1	Issue 1
Installation 555-661-140	August 1998
Installing Telephones and Adjuncts	Page 3-38
Installing Adjuncts

Supplemental Alerts

Alerting devices notify people working in noisy areas of outside, transferred, and intercom calls. Connect an alert to one of the following:

■Single-line telephone

■MLX telephone with an MFM

■Supplemental Alert Adapter (SAA) and analog multiline telephone

Alerts compatible with the SAA include horns, bells, chimes, and strobes. See “Supplemental Alert Adapter” for installation instructions.

NOTE:

The MFM in SAA mode and SAA support devices operate on 48 V

DC.

You can connect alerts operating on 20 through 30 Hz to either an MFM in tip/ring mode or a single-line telephone jack.

Supplemental Alert Adapter

If the system forms indicate a bell, horn, chime, or strobe with an analog multiline telephone, follow the steps below to install an SAA. See Figure 3–27.

! Plug the telephone cord into the TELEPHONE jack on the SAA.

! Plug the cord from the alert device into the ALERTER jack on the SAA.

! Plug the cord from the telephone wall jack into the CONTROL UNIT jack on the SAA.