Paradox Esprit 748, Installation Manual

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Introduction
INTRODUCTION
Thank you for placing your trust in Paradox and its improved Esprit 748 / 748 EXPRESS
control panel. The enhanced control panel offers to you the same great features you have come to
depend on with added reliability, improved lightning protection and a new innovative dialer circuit.
You have selected a sophisticated, user-friendly control panel designed to meet all of your
technological, performance and security requirements.
1.1 About This Manual
This manual provides all the information you will need to understand panel operation, features and
functions. If you are familiar with other security control panels, we recommend that you read this
manual at least once to familiarize yourself with panel features and programming. Please refer to
the index for a complete list of this manual's contents.
The following terminology is used throughout this manual:
[ ] = indicates a key on the keypad
[ ] = indicates a key on the keypad must be pressed
= indicates a warning or important note
italic = indicates data that must be entered, reference to a section in the manual, or an example
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SMALL CAPS
” = indicates terminals or LEDs that are located on the control panel, keypad, etc.
1.2 Features
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Improved Lightning Protection
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New and Innovative Dialer Circuit
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748 : 24 zones (12 on-board inputs with ATZ = 24 zones including 2 keypad zones)
748 EXPRESS : 14 zones (12 on-board 2 keypad zones)
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Powerful 16-bit RISC processor with built in analog to digital converters
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User-friendly programming
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"False Alarm Prevention" features such as: Intellizones, Auto Zone Shutdown, Beep on Exit
Delay, Programmable Delay Before Alarm Transmission, and Recent Closing Report
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2 Flexible Partitions
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High-Speed Communication Formats
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256 Event Buffer with time and date stamp
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2 fully programmable outputs (PGMs)