CTI Products MCN Server 8000 - Manual (Page 200)

Advanced Configuration Configuring Triggered Output Actions
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Triggered Output Notes
Things to remember about Triggered Outputs are:
• Any input (Receiver, General Purpose I/O, etc.) device type that needs to trigger an output must
use a Display Table that has Triggers in it.
For example, if a comparator needs to trigger an alarm relay, you must add Triggers to its
Display Table (typically the Comparator Display Table).
If a generator device needs to trigger an alarm relay, you must add one or more Triggers to its
Display Table (typically the Generator Display Table).
• Different input device types (Comparators, Generators, Microwave Alarms, etc.) can trigger the
same type of Triggered Output Type (typically an Alarm Relay). They can trigger different
explicit Alarm Points, but you may need only one Output Device Type. In our example above,
all alarm outputs shared the same Output Device Type.
• Each input Display Table can trigger only one Output Device Type
• Multiple states in the Input Display Table can trigger the same Output Action.
(ex: Disable and Fail on a receiver can both trigger a Set Alarm action.)
• Different states in the Input Display Table can trigger different actions in the Output Device
Type.
ex:
Set Alarm, Reset Alarm in a single-bit Output Device Type
Set Major Alarm, Set Minor Alarm, or Reset Alarms in multi-bit types.
• Even if you've set up multiple Output Actions in the Output Device Type, you don't need to use
all of them in any particular input Display Table. (In our example, we defined a Reset action,
but never triggered it from any of the Input Display Tables.)
• Each Input Display Table can point to only Output Device Type. If you have a multi-bit Input
Display Table and you need to trigger multiple alarm relays from different states in that
Display Table, you must set up a multi-bit Output Device Type to receive those triggers.
• If you need to have the same type of input trigger actions in different Output Device Types (ex:
one set of comparators triggering a single-bit Output Device Type and another set of
comparators triggering a multi-bit Output Device Type), you will need to set up two similar
Input Display Tables (like Comparator1 and Comparator 2), each pointing to the different
Output Device Types.