Smiths Medical Oxi-Pulse 30, Home Use Operation Manual

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Chapter 6: Alarms
6-4 Home Use Operation Manual
Medium Priority Alarm
A medium priority alarm warns of a low battery signal or Internal Communication Error.
A medium priority alarm is activated when:
There is less than about 30 minutes of battery life remaining in the monitor’s battery. •
An Internal Communication Error is detected. •
During a medium priority alarm:
The tone sounds if not silenced. The medium priority alarm sound is a set of 3 tones •
repeated every 20 seconds.
The Alarm Indicator flashes yellow once every 2 seconds.
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The alarm condition is sent to the data output port. •
The display shows the error source. •
low battery
The low battery signal alerts the operator that less than about 30 minutes of battery life remain in
the monitor’s battery.
WARnInG! When the low battery indicator ( ) flashes, charge or replace the monitor’s
battery. Otherwise, the monitor turns itself off about 10 minutes after the
yellow segment ( ) begins to flash.
There are four green LED segments in the battery charge display on the oximeter. When all four
are lit, the battery is fully charged. As the charge is used fewer bars will be lit. When the charge
level is down to one bar that segment turns solid yellow. When the unit has less than about
30 minutes of charge left the segment will start to flash and the low battery alert will flash and
sound. See Chapter 5: Operating Instructions for details of battery installation and use.
During a low battery alarm, the actions listed above along with the following, will occur:
The Battery Charge Indicator flashes one yellow segment. •
Alarms active at the time of a real time data output are indicated on optional WW1026 •
thermal printer.