The board has a field of 9 jumpers designated "ID" and labelled 1-9. Number 9 is reserved for future purposes, leaving 8 for addressing. Eight jumpers gives 256 possible bus addresses, out of which addresses 254 to 255 are invalid. The bus address is the numeric address used by Xwire to select the board. Every board connected to an Xwire system (be it using the Xwire connections or RS485), must have a unique address. The jumpers are in a binary format meaning each jumper has a unique value. Any address value from 0 to 255 is possible by adding links to the jumper connector. Every link added adds that jumpers value to the final total.
| Jumper | Value |
|---|---|
| JP1 | 1 |
| JP2 | 2 |
| JP3 | 4 |
| JP4 | 8 |
| JP5 | 16 |
| JP6 | 32 |
| JP7 | 64 |
| JP8 | 128 |
| MB | Reserved for future use. |
Example: If there are 3 jumper links installed. JP1 was linked, JP5 was linked and JP6 was linked the address would be 49. (1 + 16 + 32 = 49)