Section 5 – System Operations
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Groups
The system contains a concept known as groups. This allows multiple zones within a
partition to be grouped together for bypassing and alarm transmission purposes. There can
be up to 24 groups.
HOW TO DEFINE A GROUP
A programming option has been added to the zone definition section to define whether the
zone should be considered as [part of a group. If enabled, then the group number will be the
determined by the alarm type or trouble type if there is no condition for that zone which can
activate an alarm. The group will contain all of the zones (within the partition) of the same
alarm type or trouble type that has been programmed as part of a group. The group number
will be the alarm type (01 - 16) or trouble type (17 - 24) for that zone. Therefore, to create a
group within a partition, the following items must be programmed:
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Group enable question for the zone must be answered as YES
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Zones desired for the same group must all specify the same alarm or trouble type
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Zones must be within the same partition
Groups affect the traffic transmitted to the Central station for alarms and restores. Alarms
will only be transmitted to the CS for the first zone within the group that goes into alarm.
Subsequent alarm conditions from other zones within the same group will not transmit to
the CS. Local indications such as keypad display, keypad sounder and bell output will
remain the same. In addition, all activity will enter the system log.
Restores for groups will only be transmitted after all of the zones within the group have
restored. In addition the restore code will be transmitted for the first zone number in the
group that went into alarm.
Group Bypass
Entire groups can be bypassed using the following procedure:
Group Bypass Procedure
BYPASS [USER]
✴
1 GP
Where:
BYPASS = Bypass Key on keypad
[USER] = User Code
✴
1 =
✴
1 keys
GP = Group number (01 - 24). The group number will be the alarm type (01 - 16) or the
trouble type (17 - 24, for trouble types 1 - 8 example trouble type 1 = group 17)
This procedure will bypass all of the zones within the partition defined as part of the group.
For example to bypass group 3 enter:
BYPASS [USER]
✴
1 03
If the quick bypass (# 5 command) has been enabled, then the following keystrokes can be
used:
QUICK GROUP BYPASS # 5
✴
1 xx (Where XX is the group number)
QUICK GROUP UNBYPASS # 5
✴
2 xx (Where XX is the group number)
