GAI-Tronics ACC2500, User And Installation Manual

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ACC2500 Audio Control Center Operation
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Alarm Selection
In addition to live voice broadcasts, the ACC2500 allows selection of programmed alarm/speech messages
to be broadcast to particular zone. If the displayed alias has a preconfigured alarm associated with it, the
operator may not change it or turn it off. To select an alarm, press the
ALARM ON/OFF
,
ALARM UP
or
DOWN
buttons until the second line of the display is as shown below:
Z o n e : Z o n e 3
→ A l a r m : _ _ _
The “
→
” in the first location of the second line indicates that the alarm selection is active. To manually
select an alarm using the numeric key, enter the desired alarm number as stored in the AMI. To select
alarm 12, press “1” followed by “2.” As the digits are entered, the first digit will be display in the third
blank and moved to the left as subsequent digits are entered. If more than the allowed number of digits is
entered, the alarm entry will be cleared and the last digit will become the first digit of the new alarm. After
entry of the alarm, the display will be as shown below:
Z o n e : Z o n e 3
→ A l a r m : _ 1 2
The alarm aliases differ from the zone aliases in that they are retrieved from the AMI as necessary and
programming of these aliases is done with the ACT Tool. To select a particular alarm using the AMI
aliases, press the ALARM Up/Down buttons to scroll to the desired alarm name.
Z o n e : Z o n e 3
→
A l a r m : L o c k D o w n
Note that, like zone selection, the name of the alarm field can be changed via CARD Suite to any desired
alphanumeric name of up to eight characters. By default, the field will be named “Alm:” A consideration
here is that the AMI message names are up to 32 characters in length and using the field name of “Alarm”
uses valuable display space allowing only the first 9 characters of the AMI name to be displayed. If more
characters are desired, the field name can be changed to “A,” which will allow up to 14 characters of the
AMI name to be displayed.
If the operator wishes to revert to manual entry, pressing the STOP/CLR button will clear the alarm entry.