
PAGE 30 of 68 VX2200 TECHNICAL MANUAL VER1.5
AUDIO APARTMENT STATION (5178)
The 5178 is an audio apartment station available
in white, silver or carbon fibre ABS plastic and is
a surface mount unit which connects to the
VX2200 bus via a 4 wire bus. The apartment
station has half duplex speech (Hands free
speech) and the facility to switch into simplex
speech mode by holding the talk/answer button
down during a call. The apartment station
includes the following buttons.
PUSH BUTTONS, LED’S AND CONTROLS
Service push button - When pressed, shorts terminal “S1” to terminal “GND” (ground).
Answer - On an incoming call, operation of this button allows the user to answer and converse with the visitor. The LED next
to the button will illuminate.
Switch off - With the system switched on (Call in progress), momentary operation of the button will switch the apartment
station off. The apartment station will also automatically switch off after a time delay if the button is not pressed. The LED
next to the button will go off.
Simplex button - Pressing and holding the button for more than 3 seconds will switch the apartment station into SIMPLEX
speech mode. Press and hold the button to speak to the caller (The LED next to the button will flash rapidly), release the
button to listen (The LED will flash slowly). If the button is not pressed for 10 seconds the apartment station will switch off.
The apartment station will revert to half duplex speech when another call is made.
Privacy on-off - enable/disable the service. The LED next to the button will illuminate when the privacy service is enabled.
Concierge call– While in standby, press this button to call the concierge (If service is available).
Door open - During a call, operation of this button will activate the “door open”
Calltone volume controls – 3 levels available. Press the left key to decrease volume and the right to increase volume.
Choose calling melody – 9 melodies available. See programming section for operation of these buttons.
Description Signal Terminal
One side of the service button SB 1
Door open & AUX LED ground -LD 2
+12V dc input to power the apartment station +12V 3
0V supply input and bus ground GND 4
Bus line (Data/speech) L 5
Local door bell input (Triggered by 0V) LB 6
Alarm button input (Triggered by 0V) AL 7
Other side of the service button SA 8
AUX LED +12V input AUL 9
Door open LED +12V input DOL 10
PROGRAMMING
Programming is carried out by setting the internal 8 way dip-switch to the positions shown on the
decimal/binary conversion table of this manual.
PROGRAMMING THE MELODY
Press and hold the two melody buttons “
” (for approx 10 seconds) until the unit plays the current
stored melody and emits a beep.
Press the melody button again (left or right) to listen to the available melodies (maximum 9).
When the chosen melody has been reached, do not press any buttons, wait 3 seconds for the exit
beep.
The new melody is now stored.
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