Connecting the phone lines:
LINE
PHONE
TAMP TR2 TR1 0V 12V+
The APD-T01 provides two RJ11-style modular phone-jack connections, marked LINE and PHONE.
The LINE connection, of course, should be connected to the actual phone line which the autodialer is to use.
Ideally, this should be a standard telephone line (also known as POTS, or “Plain Old Telephone Service”); while
it is entirely possible to connect it to a VOIP (voice-over-IP) adapter for use with the so-called “digital phone
service” provided by many broadband-internet providers, this would obviously make the autodialer dependent
upon the internet and your internal network remaining “live” which, depending on your intended application,
might defeat the entire purpose of having the autodialer to begin with!
Note that the APD-T01 can not be directly connected to most multi-extension office phone/intercom systems,
as they generally do not use standard telephone voltages and signaling conventions between the extension phones
and the central control system.
The PHONE jack allows you to connect a standard
telephone device to the line as well, so that the line can be used
for incoming or outgoing calls as well as for the APD-T01. This
could be useful if your facility already has a dedicated line for a
fax machine, for example; the APD-T01 and the fax machine
could (depending on how heavily and continuously the fax
machine is used) share the existing line, instead of having to
have another dedicated line installed for the autodialer alone.
Note: if you intend to connect a phone device, you will
need to purchase a second RJ11-to-RJ11 phone cable
if you don’t already have an extra one.