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A Comfort Beep is a single beep of the audible alarm at 60-second intervals that informs the person using
the MultiRAE that it is functioning. It can be turned on or off.
9.3.6.5
Man Down Alarm
The Man Down Alarm is a critical and potentially lifesaving feature of every MultiRAE. The Man Down
Alarm is based on the premise that if the instrument is motionless when it is not supposed to be,
something wrong may be happening to its user. If that is the case, a wirelessly enabled MultiRAE not
only goes into alarm locally on the instrument to notify people in the vicinity, but also remotely, over a
wireless network, to transmit the alarm to remote safety officers at a command center, that a person is
down, so that help can be dispatched quickly.
Whenever the Man Down feature is enabled, the main screen displays a Man Down icon along the top to indicate
it is active:
The MultiRAE has a 3D gravity sensor that can track the slightest motion of the instrument in any
direction. If the instrument is not moved during that time, then a pre-alarm is activated to alert the user,
and shows the “Are You OK?” screen. Pressing [Y/+] clears the alarm and returns the MultiRAE to its
normal operation. Pressing [N/-] sets it into Man Down Alarm (and if wireless connectivity is enabled, a
Man Down message is sent in real time to remote observers). If neither key is pressed, then after the count-
down, it goes into Man Down Alarm (again sending a message to remote observers if wirelessly enabled).
Settings are available for:
Off/On (off by default)
Motionless Time: time the instrument is motionless before initiating a pre-alarm (30 seconds by
default)
Motion Sensitivity: set to low, medium, or high to compensate for ambient vibration or motion
(medium by default)
Warning Time: countdown, in seconds, from pre-alarm to Man Down alarm (30 seconds by default)
When the Man Down pre-alarm is activated, the buzzer sounds and LEDs flash twice per second, and a countdown
begins.
If the MultiRAE’s user presses [Y/+] for “Yes” in response to the “Are You OK?” question on the
screen before the countdown reaches zero, the Man Down alarm stops and the main reading screen is
displayed.
If the person does not press [Y/+] for “Yes” in response to the “Are You OK?” question on the screen
before the countdown reaches zero, the Man Down alarm is triggered.
If the person presses [N/-] during the countdown, answering the “Are You OK?” question with “No,”
the Man Down alarm starts.
If wireless connectivity is enabled, a Man Down message is also sent to remote observers.
IMPORTANT!
When gas or radiation alarm conditions exist at the same time as the Man Down is activated, the pre-
alarm stage is skipped and the instrument goes straight into a Super Alarm (gas or radiation and Man
Down) with four beeps/flashes per second.
IMPORTANT!
