What is your limitation for the number of facility codes per panel?
Question
What is your limitation for the number of facility codes per panel?
Answer
There is not a limitation of facility codes per panel. There is only a limit of 16 card types. This is a Mercury limit but it DOES NOT translate to only tenants or anything like that. It is more like the number of bits. As you know there are a bunch of common bit length cards.
26 Bit
28 Bit
32 Bit
33 Bit
34 Bit
35 Bit
37 bit
40 bit
Think of each one of these as a card type. Any tenant that has a 26 bit card use the 26 bit card type. We combine the facility code with the card number to create a unique card number for that tenant and ensure this separates them from all other tenants of the same bits but a different facility code. So as long as the industry doesn’t create more than 16 different card types we will always be able to support all the various tenant card formats in one building and across all buildings.
For more detailed information please read Alternate Card Formats