Honeywell control panel QND8800QND4800 User Manual

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Distribution Panel
Users Guide
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Congratulations on your purchase of a Honeywell QuickNetwork QND8800/4800 Distribution Panel.  Your 
Distribution Panel seamlessly combines both external services and internal signals to give you complete control 
over which signals or services are used in any location of your home or office.  
External Services – External Services are those services that originate outside your home.  The three most 
common services are telephone service, TV service (this may be antenna, cable or Satellite TV) and, in certain 
locations, high-speed Internet service.   
Internal Signals – Internal Signals are those signals generated inside the home. Examples of Internal Signals 
include movies from a DVD player or VCR, pictures from a security camera at the front gate or by the swimming 
pool, music from your CD player or radio, or MP3 files from your computer.  Another example of Internal signals 
is a print command sent from the laptop computer in the kitchen to the computer and printer in the home office.  
Your Distribution Panel collects all these types of services and signals and allows you to control where they go.  
If you decide to move your home office or add another computer, your Distribution Panel will allow you to quickly 
and conveniently reroute the desired services and signals to the new locations.  In addition, built in expansion 
slots give you peace of mind in knowing that when new services or products become available, you can add 
them to your Distribution Panel.   
This Users Guide contains information about your Distribution Panel, its benefits, and the ways in which you can 
control, change or add to your Distribution Panel.   
						

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Benefits of a Structured Wiring System  
If we compare today’s home to those of the previous decade, we see many differences.  One of the biggest 
changes we find is the amount of electronics, and the types of services that are available.  Today’s homes 
have satellite dishes, multiple computers, VCR’s, TV’s and stereo equipment along with services like the 
Internet that have brought information to us in ways we could not have imagined.   
These new products and services bring the need to to manage and control them.  For instance, which rooms 
in your home or office receive telephone line 1 and which ones receive line 2?  Which rooms do you want to 
have access to the Internet?  What about controlling access to offensive or mature web pages?  Which room 
will you be able to watch Satellite TV in?  If you move your home office, can you reroute the telephone line or 
high-speed Internet line connected to your computer, or will you have to call the service provider and wait for 
them to schedule a house call? 
The benefit of a Structured Wiring System is that it allows you to manage signal distribution in your home 
and make changes as your needs change.   In addition, installing telephone, data and coax lines in all the 
rooms of your home now saves you the time and money of trying to add wiring to your home later. 
Components of a Structured Wiring System
There are four main components in a Structured Wiring System. 
• The Distribution Panel 
• The Wiring and Multi-Media Cable and Wire 
• The Receptacles and Multi-Media Outlets 
• System Options  
Distribution Panels 
The Distribution Panel acts as the “brain” of your Structured Wiring System.  It collects all the incoming 
services and signals and routes them to the desired locations. The QND8800/4800 Distribution panel 
provides you with the highest level of control and customization.  These panels were designed to allow 
you, the homeowner, to make simple changes to your system, such as activating phone and/or TV 
outlets in your home, or even disconnecting or moving the signals around in the home.  The design also 
allows your installer to make quick and easy upgrades to your system.    
The features that make up the system will vary from home to home depending on the services used.  A 
QND-8800/4800 Distribution Panel includes the following features and functions. 
Telephone and Coax Distribution Module
The Telephone and Coax Module is used to distribute TV, 
Cable TV and Satellite TV signals to multiple locations 
throughout the house.  As well as 4 incoming telephone lines 
to 8 locations.  In addition, the Telephone and Coax 
Distribution Module can distribute modulated signals from 
VCR’s, DVD’s, cameras, and even computers to multiple 
locations throughout the house. 
Expansion Bays 
Expansion Bays provide room for adding additional 
components to your Distribution Panel, either at the time of 
installation, or at a later date.  Optional Modules include high-
speed Internet access, computer networking, video 
distribution, satellite TV, home automation, distributed home 
audio, etc.  
						

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One of the most important components of a Structured Wiring System is the wiring. For example, having 
a high-speed Internet modem will do you no good if the wire can’t process the information fast enough.  
When it comes to your wiring, you need to ask two questions.  How much information can my wire 
handle (known as bandwidth) and how fast can it handle it (known as through-put)?  
Receptacles and Multi-Media Outlets 
The telephone, data, TV and Multi-Media outlets are where you plug in your phones, computers TV’s and 
other electronics.  Your Structured Wiring System will probably consist of a variety of receptacles.  These 
receptacles may have 1,2,3,4 or 6 connection points on them.  In addition, these receptacles can be 
custom configured to provide the type of connectivity you need in each room.  They are installed at 
convenient locations throughout the home. A common Multi-Media outlet would be configured as shown 
below: 
1.  Two RJ45 telecom ports (accept standard telephone jack 
inserts) used for single or multiple line telephones, 
dedicated fax lines, dedicated modem lines, or data. 
2.  Two fiber optic jacks (optional). Used for hooking 
computers together for high-speed communications, phone 
lines, and TV video signals. 
3. Two RG6 coax TV jacks (“F” connectors) used for video 
(cable TV, antenna, satellite, cable modem, and internal 
video).
How Signals Flow Through a Distribution Panel 
Understanding how signals flow through your Structured Wiring System will help you perform basic functions like 
rerouting signals or adding additional points of service.  The following is a basic overview of how signals enter 
and flow through your home. 
1.  Telephone and TV signals enter your home at a box called the Demarcation Box.   
2.  Once these signals and services are connected to the Demarcation Box, a Multi-Media cable is used 
to connect the Demarcation box to the Distribution Panel.  This is referred to as the Demarcation run.  
						

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Multi-Media cable running to the receptacles in each room, creating the roadway for signals to travel. 
4.  At the receptacle location, we use telephone and TV patch cords to connect from the receptacles to 
the equipment in the room. 
Telephone Signal Management 
The diagram below shows how signals flow through the 
Telephone Distribution Module. 
1.  Your installer connected the incoming telephone lines to 
the 110 connection on the backside of the telephone and 
coax distribution module.   
2.  The telephone wires coming from the rooms in your 
home are connected to the punch downs on the front of 
the distribution module.
Separating Multiple Lines at the Room Location 
The Line Breakout Box (part # LBO1) provides an easy way 
to separate and access up to four individual phone lines at 
any Multi-Media Outlet or a standard telephone outlet 
location.   
The LBO1 can be added anytime, and can be attached 
directly to the Multi-Media or Telephone outlet by replacing 
the bottom screw in the receptacle with a double-headed 
screw (supplied with the LBO1) and hanging the LBO1 from 
the Receptacle.  
In addition, by using a longer patch cord, the LBO1 can be 
placed on the desktop or any other convenient location.  
Once the LBO1 is installed on the bottom of the receptacle, a 
short patch cord (supplied with the LBO1) is used to connect 
from the telephone port on the receptacle to the L1-L4 Input 
on the LBO1.
The LBO1 separates the 4 incoming telephone lines and 
sends them to the 4 ports on the bottom of the LBO1.  As 
you can see in the diagram below, the port on the far right is 
for line one (this port also can be used for two line 
telephones), the second port from the right is line 2, the third 
port from the right is line 3, and the port on the left is for line 
4.  You will also notice a pass thru port on the left hand side.  
This allows all four lines to pass to another device or to 
another LBO1 Line Breakout Box.   
						

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TV Signal Management 
1.  Your installer ran a RG6 coax cable from the demarcation 
point to the Coax input on the rear of the module.   
2.  The coax wires coming from the rooms in your home are 
connected to the coax outputs on the front of the 
distribution module. 
						

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