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Using Alarms
Monitoring Alarms
After de
fi
ning and enabling alarms, you can quickly check if any error condition exists by looking for the noti
fi
cation you
de
fi
ned (text, icon, or logging). (See page 8,
.) Selecting the Ground Closure output response can help you
notice alarms that you may miss if the noti
fi
cation is text or icon only. Ground Closure can be used to drive an external alarm
when one or more alarms are triggered. (See page 51,
To Set Allowed Alarm Responses
If you want to check the condition of a speci
fi
c alarm, press the
STATUS
button. In the Status menu, select
Display Type
and then select
Alarm Status
. One or more of the following will appear:
Indicator
Description
Disabled (gray)
Alarm is not selected for reporting, but will still show if the
error is present.
OK (green)
Alarm is enabled for reporting and has not detected errors
for at least 5 seconds.
Error (yellow)
Alarm condition cleared for less than 5 seconds.
Error (red)
Alarm triggered now.
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