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7 Testing the FastTrace System
7.1 Installation and Testing Checklist
There are a few do's and don'ts on top of basic installation practices that should be followed to
ensure a good and trouble free FastTrace installation.
• Upon unpacking the FastTrace ensure that all the required components are there and that
you have received the right equipment.
• Remember that the FastTrace can only transmit what it is given. If you provide the
FastTrace with a bad quality picture you will receive bad quality pictures at the receiving
station. The FastTrace can not in any way improve on the picture quality it receives from the
camera.
• Always check the picture quality going into the FastTrace transmitter, at the FastTrace
transmitter. Just because you have good quality pictures at your video switcher or
Multiplexer does not mean that you will get good quality pictures going into the FastTrace.
• When the alarm inputs of the FastTrace are triggered it will send three snapshots plus a live
view of the scene back to the monitoring station. So it is vitally important that the camera is
covering the complete scene protected by the sensor otherwise the operators at the
monitoring station may interpret a genuine alarm as a false one if they cannot see anybody
there.
• Make sure that your alarm inputs are programmed correctly for the way that your sensors
are operating. If these are incorrect it may appear that the FastTrace is working but you will
actually find that your alarms are triggering when your intruder leaves the sensors view
(when the sensor goes back to its inactive state) rather than when the intruder originally
tripped it. This may mean the intruder is not seen on the screen at the monitoring station
and the event may be recorded as a false alarm.
• The FastTrace's alarm inputs are available on 15 way screw terminal blocks not a 20 way.
This means that you have 10 inputs and 5 commons (all of the commons are commoned
together). It is a common mistake to wire your sensors expecting to find that each of the
alarm inputs has its own common.
• If your monitoring station has multiple communication devices, when installing sites try
alternating which telephone number appears first on each call list; this will give the sites a
better chance of contacting the monitoring station on the first attempt.
• When testing the FastTrace make sure that you walk test all of the sensors and as you trip
each one make sure that the FastTrace dials the monitoring station. At the monitoring
station make sure that the operator can see who tripped the alarm and that the alarm
picture that is brought up is from the correct camera.
• If audio is fitted make sure that you get good quality in both directions.