Elix
- User Guide
1. General Description
Indoor Emergency Lighting
ELIX
has a double function. It can operate as:
1) Emergency Lighting, where it is activated on mains power loss (when voltage drops below acceptable
limit).
2) Continuous Operation Lighting with two (2) levels of brightness:
• Brightness Level 1: Mains power is present
• Brightness Level 2: Mains power is lost
ELIX also provides:
• A
PRG/TEST
button, for testing and programming
• Three (3) LED indications:
FLT
=Fault (yellow LED),
PWR
=Power (green LED) and
BAT
=Battery Fault
(red LED)
• Up to 2.5 hours of emergency lighting duration (at maximum brightness)
2. TEST button operation
Figure 1.
ELIX LED indications
If the
PRG/TEST
button is pressed for an interval:
• Less than 3 seconds, the system’s diagnostic test starts.
• Between 3 and 30 seconds, the system’s programming operation starts.
• More than 30 seconds, the system restores the default settings.
2.1 Test Procedure
1) Battery Internal Resistance Test
- The battery presence is checked.
- The battery internal resistance is checked.
- The battery degree of charge is checked.
2) LED Lights Test
- A cycle through all 5 light intensities is done
- If there is an open-circuit or a short-circuit fault with the LED operation, an error is indicated.
2.2 System Programming
To enter the system programming the user presses the
PRG/TEST
button for more than 3 seconds and until
the
PWR
LED starts blinking. The
PWR
LED will remain in this blinking state until the programming ends.
