BlackBox A/B Switches

SIMS has several varieties of BlackBox switches built to fit the needs of the alarm industry. The following styles of these switches are available for purchase directly from SIMS. All are rack-mountable and built of metal and not plastic as other manufacturers sometimes use. These are heavy duty switches designed for the punishment a central station can throw their way.

Primary/Alternate Switch

This switch is designed to switch up to eight receivers from your primary receiver server to an alternate receiver server in the event of problems with the primary receiver server. The switch is designed with two knobs on the front (one for ports 1-4, the other for 5-8) and eight sets of A/B/Common connectors on the back. The A and B connectors are 25 pin Female RS232 connectors, while the Common connectors are 25 pin Male RS232 connectors. Updated 01/02/2007 - The knobs are now labeled which controls ports 1-4 and which controls 5-8. The ports on the back are also labeled 1-8 respectively as well. Price: $595 + shipping.

Receiver/Vapor Paper Switch

This switch is designed to switch up to four receivers to one of three workstations. It also will switch up to four printer inputs for Vapor Paper to one of the three workstations as well. On the front is three knobs which control which input each of the three workstations will be connected to. These can be set to either Receivers or Vapor Paper. A text description really doesn't do this switch justice. Suffice it to say that three workstations can all operate as either receiver workstation(s) or vapor paper collector workstation(s) depending on the position of the switches. The workstation connectors are 25 pin Female RS232 connectors and the input connectors for either the receivers or vapor paper printer inputs are 25 pin Male RS232 connectors. Price: $695 + shipping.

	Other BlackBox Switches
BlackBox also makes many other varieties of switches, both mechanical like the ones we have built and electronic. Contact BlackBox directly at (877) 877-BBOX or http://www.blackbox.com for more information.