Got a peek at the new SCU that will be going into LA County FD stations. This unit is still in test mode.
New touch screen flat panels to replace the ancient monochrome monitors. This is a 2 panel setup for BC stations that get the OT alerts.
Bottom shelf is a 10 hr UPS with the battery in back of cabinet.
Middle shelf is 100w Goldline P.A. to drive the alert tone, blue channel, white channel audio, phone paging and night ringer phone tone. White channel SCU VHF Motorola Maxtrac (aka wake up call at 7am every morning) is in separate cabinet but the white audio and alert tone is fed to this P.A.
Top shelf. Astron 20A 12 vdc power supply. Tait 470mhz radio to receive the CAD digital dispatch.
Motorola XTL5000 470 mhz radio for Blue channel 8 dispatch audio.
2 Comspec tone boards behind Tait radio to generate the station alert tone, white alert tone and OT alert tone.
Via Pico ITX x86 (silver box). http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/productSeries.jsp?serialNo=6
Night ringer module rings phone through the station SCU speakers via the P.A. Station inhouse paging is also done through the phone system via the SCU PA to SCU station ceiling speakers.
Rocker switch on top of cabinet is for monitor of blue channel with an amber "ON" indicator light and a red "TX" " light for Blue channel 8.
If this Blue SCU looses the digital signal to the CAD this unit will open the Blue 8 radio monitor so they hear constant LA dispatch audio.
If this Blue SCU fails completely the fallback is to the White (VHF) SCU unit.
New touch screen flat panels to replace the ancient monochrome monitors. This is a 2 panel setup for BC stations that get the OT alerts.
Bottom shelf is a 10 hr UPS with the battery in back of cabinet.
Middle shelf is 100w Goldline P.A. to drive the alert tone, blue channel, white channel audio, phone paging and night ringer phone tone. White channel SCU VHF Motorola Maxtrac (aka wake up call at 7am every morning) is in separate cabinet but the white audio and alert tone is fed to this P.A.
Top shelf. Astron 20A 12 vdc power supply. Tait 470mhz radio to receive the CAD digital dispatch.
Motorola XTL5000 470 mhz radio for Blue channel 8 dispatch audio.
2 Comspec tone boards behind Tait radio to generate the station alert tone, white alert tone and OT alert tone.
Via Pico ITX x86 (silver box). http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/productSeries.jsp?serialNo=6
Night ringer module rings phone through the station SCU speakers via the P.A. Station inhouse paging is also done through the phone system via the SCU PA to SCU station ceiling speakers.
Rocker switch on top of cabinet is for monitor of blue channel with an amber "ON" indicator light and a red "TX" " light for Blue channel 8.
If this Blue SCU looses the digital signal to the CAD this unit will open the Blue 8 radio monitor so they hear constant LA dispatch audio.
If this Blue SCU fails completely the fallback is to the White (VHF) SCU unit.
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