Bird Technologies 429-83H-01 Series-Installation Instructions - Manual (Page 7)

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The 429 series tower top amplifier system provides
front panel Ethernet connectivity that allows access
to a web-based interface for controlling and moni-
toring of amplifier currents, alarms, and attenua-
tors. If you have not already done so, refer to
Appendix A in your TTA’s installation and opera-
tions manual for instructions on how to properly
connect your computer to the TTA’s front panel
LAN port.
Once you are properly connected to the TTA the
web-based interface screen will appear in your
web-browser’s window. Figure 1 shows the inter-
face screen as it appears after you first connect.
The current Ethernet software version that is
loaded into your TTA is displayed in the uppermost
left corner while the model number of your system
appears in the uppermost right corner. The rest of
the display screen is divided into four functional
areas including;
Amplifier Status - provides continuously updated
status information on the two tower top amplifiers.
Amplifier Control - allows the user to interact with
the two tower top amplifiers by selecting which is
the active amp, terminating the amplifier inputs,
and turning on/off the power supply feed to the
amplifier.
Attenuator Status - displays the current setting of
both the TTA Net gain and distribution gain attenu-
ators. Also allows the attenuator values to be either
manually entered by the user or automatically cal-
culated.
Settings - the two uppermost registers are used to
manually adjust attenuator values. The next two
lowermost boxes are used when automatically cal-
culating the TTA Net gain attenuator value. The
last four lowermost registers use to store values of
measured or estimated parameters.
Figure 1: The web-based interface screen.
Ethernet Software Version TTA System Model Number