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Fire Alarm System (If Installed)
Fire Alarm System (If Installed)
Fire Alarm System (If Installed)
Fire Alarm System (If Installed)
General
Your fire alarm system (if installed) is on 24 hours a day, for continuous protection. In
the event of an emergency, the strategically located smoke and heat detectors will
sound their alarms and automatically send signals to your system, triggering a loud,
interrupted pulsed sound* from the Keypad(s) and any external sounders. A FIRE
message will appear at your Keypad and remain on until you silence the alarm (see
below for silencing fire alarms).
* Temporal pulse sounding is produced for Fire alarms, as follows:
3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause. . . , repeated.
TYPICAL FIRE EMERGENCY DISPLAYS
F I R E 0 1
S T O C K R O O M
01
01
01
01
ALARM
FIRE
AC
ALPHA DISPLAY KEYPAD
FIXED-WORD KEYPAD
Silencing
Fire Alarms and
Clearing Memory of
Alarm
1. You can silence the alarm at any time by pressing the
OFF
key (the security code is
not needed to silence fire alarms). To clear the display, enter your code and press the
OFF
key again (to clear Memory of Alarm).
2. If the Keypad's FIRE display does not clear after the second OFF sequence, smoke
detectors may still be responding to smoke or heat producing objects in their vicinity.
Investigate, and should this be the case, eliminate the source of heat or smoke.
3. If this does not remedy the problem, there may still be smoke in the detector. Clear
it by fanning the detector for about 30 seconds. When the problem has been
corrected, clear the display by entering your code and pressing the
OFF
key.
Smoke Detector Reset
Depending on the type of smoke detectors in your system, it may be necessary to
"reset" the smoke detectors after a fire alarm has been turned off. Check with your
installer. This "reset" is accomplished at a keypad, as follows:
Enter User Code, then press the [
1
] key (does not apply to an “arm only” user).
Manually Initiating
a Fire Alarm
1. Should you become aware of a fire emergency before your smoke or heat detectors
sense the problem, go to your nearest keypad and manually initiate an alarm by
pressing the panic key assigned for FIRE emergency for 2 seconds. If a key pair has
been assigned for fire, press both keys at the same time.
2. Evacuate all occupants from the premises.
3. If flames and/or smoke are present, leave the premises and notify your local Fire
Brigade immediately.
4. If no flames or smoke are apparent, investigate the cause of the alarm. The zone
number(s) of the zone(s) in an alarm condition will be displayed at the keypad.
