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Sage-Endec EAS

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zach_morton

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Does anyone have two stations running with one Sage-Endec EAS Encoder NOT using a multi-station relay? If so, please help. I'm trying to do this, but not sure how I should go about doing it. Or any suggestions you may have for it.
 
Zach:

If you are trying to eas encode multiple stations you must have some sort of external switching.
The built in audio side of the endec can only switch one station (even if they're mono).

The SAGE multi-station relay box is really a just custom version of a b-tools switcher. I know of one station who built his own, too.

Regards,
Joe
 
That was kinda what I was thinking too...using two relays (one for each station) and pipe the audio in that way. Right now, the station is simulcast, so program audio just goes into the Endec, and is handled internally. We will be breaking the simulcast soon, so I need to have a way to do it. Two relays damn sure beats the $875 price tag that Endec wants for the multi-station panel.
 
Hey Zach;

Magnecraft 782XDX1M4L-24D $ 7.25

4PDT with an LED to indicate activation and a 'manual' button on top

Socket is 70-461-1 $ 3.30

Mouser book # 627 page 1406

Gary
 
Unless you don't have a problem with both stations sending all alerts at the same time, even the Required Weekly Test, you need a "switch" the operator must use to select which station to activate.

Just use some latching relays and a set of buttons to send a RWT on only one station at a time. After the one-station test is over it would go back to parralling the relays so both stations would relay any incomming alerts. The operator wouldn't have to remember to switch it back!

There's plenty of command inputs and outputs to do that.

Otherwise you need something that takes the RS232 Serial command to actuate the relays.
 
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