Bay Alarm Vista-20Bay, Installation And Setup Manual

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Alpha Descriptor Programming
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About Alpha Descriptor Programming
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Zone Descriptors
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Programming Zone Descriptors
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Adding Custom Words
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About Alpha Descriptor Programming
This section provides instructions for programming alpha zone descriptors. This is
recommended for systems using alpha keypads, and is necessary if a 4285 or 4286 VIP
Module is used.
If you are using a 4285/4286 VIP Module, select from those words in the Alpha Vocabulary
List shown in
boldface type . The phone module will not provide annunciation of the
other words.
If a 4285/4286 VIP Module is added to an existing VISTA-20BAY system, the alpha descriptors
presently in the system should be reprogrammed, selecting from those words shown in
boldface
type in the Alpha Vocabulary List. The phone module will not provide annunciation of any other
words.
The Alpha Vocabulary List and Character Chart are on a following page.
Zone Descriptors
For the Alpha keypad used with the VISTA-20BAY, you can program into the system a user-
friendly English language description/location of all protection zones, keypad panics, and RF
receiver supervision faults. Each description can be composed of a combination of words (up
to 3) selected from a vocabulary of 196 words stored in memory (see a following page). In
addition, up to 10 installer-defined words can be added to those already in memory. Thus,
when an alarm or trouble occurs in a zone, an appropriate description for that zone's location
is displayed at the keypad.
NOTE: Alpha descriptor entry can be done locally at the alpha keypad or remotely using
downloading software. The alpha keypad procedure is described below.
Programming Zone Descriptors (program menu mode
✴
82)
You can enter the descriptor when the zone is being defined in field
✱
56, but we recommend
you do it using
✱
82 menu mode.
To program zone descriptors, enter the 3-digit reference number for the desired word(s). The
3-digit number for each word is provided in the Alpha Vocabulary List (on a following page).
1. With the system powered up, enter the programming mode by keying:
Installer code (4 1 1 2) + 8 + 0 + 0 . The following display appears:
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