APPENDICES
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B4. Siren
A partition is alarmed when receiving an event from an alarmed device assigned to that partition. Alarmed
devices do not affect partitions to which they are not assigned. A siren is common to all partitions; therefore, an
alarm from one or more partitions will activate the siren.
Siren Activity
The siren will be activated when receiving an event from an alarmed device.
Overlapping siren activations from different partitions will not cause the duration of the siren to be
extended.
When the siren sounds, it will not stop until all alarmed partitions are disarmed. However if the siren is
active due to an alarm from a common area zone, and one of the partitions assigned to this area disarms
the system, the siren will also stop. In case that the alarm is initiated from a common area but continues
with zones that are not assigned to a common area, the siren will not stop until all partitions assigned to
the alarmed zones are disarmed.
In case that there is a fire in partition 1 and a burglary in partition 2, the siren will sound FIRE. When
partition 1 is disarmed, the siren will sound BURGLAR for the remainder of the siren timeout period.
B5. Partition status display
Partitions status is indicated in the following manner:
P1:X P2:X P3:X
Each X value indicates a different partition state, as follows:
R
Ready
N
Not ready
A
Away
H
Home
E
Exit delay
D
Entry delay
-
Not used
B6. Common areas
Common areas are areas used as walkthrough zones to areas of 2 or more partitions. There may be more than
one common area in an installation depending on the layout of the property. A common area is not the same as
a partition; it cannot be armed / disarmed directly. Common areas are created when you assign a zone or zones
to 2 or 3 partitions. Table A1 summarizes the behavior of the different zone types in a common area.
