Set Terminals as Reserved or Spare

Terminals can be set as reserved or as spare. Both sides of a terminal can be set as reserved or spare, or just the left or the right-hand side.

When wire terminations are made by applying wiring rules (refer to Create Wiring), reserved and spare terminals are automatically skipped and are not terminated. Terminations are instead made to the next available terminals in the strip.

Wire terminations can also be made by dragging from the Cables to Terminate or the Cores to Terminate lists (refer to Terminate Existing Wires/Cores and to Create Multiple New Wires between Terminals).

If the user drags onto a terminal strip with reserved terminals:

• In the case of cables, a message is displayed explaining that the cable cannot be connected to a reserved terminal. The operation is then cancelled.

  

• In the case of cores, the user will be given the choice of "releasing" the reserved terminal side and connecting the core to it, or of cancelling the operation entirely.

  

If the user drags onto a terminal strip with spare terminals:

• In the case of a cable, the user will be given the choice of "releasing" the spare terminal side and connecting the cable to it, or of skipping the terminal. If a terminal is skipped, the operation will then move onto the next available terminal and attempt to connect to that. If that terminal is also spare, the message will be displayed again, and so on until the cable is connected or all terminals have been tried.

  

• In the case of cores, the user will be given the choice of "releasing" the spare terminal side and connecting the core to it, or of cancelling the operation entirely.

  

Links and looping wires (refer to Create Links and Looping Wires) can be made to and from spare terminals, but not reserved terminals.