AVAC
VOICE ALARM SYSTEM
Installation and
Maintenance Manual
Message Store
paging
active
fire
microphone
supply
present
Silence internal
Sounder
evacuation alert
test
message fault
mains
fault
psu
fault
microphone
fault
system
fault
general
fault
slave
fault
A
fault
B
fault
standby
fault
speaker A
fault
speaker B
fault
Amplifier & Speaker faults
Designed to comply with BS5839 : Part 8 : 1998
& EN 60849 : 1998
AVAC
- Life Safety Voice Alarm System
Approved Document No. DAU0000402 Rev 6
ALWAYS make sure the end of line devices (supplied) are fitted after the last loudspeaker.
If they are not, calibration may succeed but loudspeaker circuit faults will not be detected.
ALWAYS measure the speaker circuit loads using a Loadmaster or LCR meter before calibration.
The max. load for each circuit is 60 watts, which is equivalent to a min. impedance of 166 ohms..
DO NOT use a multimeter as the results will be meaningless.
The most common installation problem on voice alarm systems is loudspeakers being tapped at too high a
wattage and overloading the amplifier which causes clipping of the monitoring tone signal.