Document: LT0400
4100U-S1 Programming Guide
About the Programming Tools
Issue 1.4
15 December 2010
Page 3-3
3.5 Steps to Configuring a New System
The steps to configuring a new system are covered in Sections 4 -10.
Section 11
contains details on “building” the configuration and downloading it into the panel.
3.6 Upgrading an Existing Configuration
The configuration must be prepared/edited using a version of the programmer that matches
the Panel Exec firmware installed. If the panel Exec firmware is updated, e.g. to add some
new features, then the configuration will need to be upgraded using the new compatible
programmer version and downloaded to the panel after the firmware has been updated.
A panel with a non-matching configuration will report that the existing configuration is an
incompatible version and repeatedly restart. The upgraded version of the configuration must
be downloaded before normal operation will resume.
Locate the existing database file (job *.SDB4100U) for this system. If you want to keep the
old version as well as the upgraded version of the configuration, you may open it using the
old Programmer -
do a „Save As‟/‟Copy...‟ and enter a new job name for the upgraded
version, or simply copy the entire directory of the old configuration to a backup directory.
Open the database file using the Programmer with the new version required. The
Programmer will identify that the database is an older version and will prompt to do an
upgrade.
Click on the Yes button.
This will upgrade the database to the format for the new programmer version.
With the introduction of version 12 Exec firmware,
the Australian message library is loaded as a
primary message library. Select Panel and then
System Options and ensure the setting for
„Language of Use‟ is set to „Primary‟.
Make any other changes required, save the new
database, build it and download it to the panel as
described in this manual.
