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Amended: Jan 2014
Programming Issues
Once Autolearned, the panel will work as a basic fire alarm provided there is no cause and effect
required on the site.
The panel, however, can transfer this learned information to the Site Installer program on a laptop,
where full zone and address text can be programmed together with different relay outputs, sounder
settings etc. and any Input programming to fulfil any customer requirements.
NOTE Programming, when completed must be in conjunction with total numbers and settings
laid down in the previous sections of this guide.
Once programmed, this information can then be returned to the panel.
A number of issues have been identified:
1. If the program will not go back into the panel, this is likely to be corrupted or incorrectly set up
or the display micro (CDR) is corrupt. Power down the panel and remove the loop driver
cards. Power the panel again and carry out an Autolearn (this effectively clears the CDR).
Power down again and install the loop driver(s), re-power and try to reload the program. If this
will still not download then check the program or replace the micro.
2. If after successful download the panel goes into random fires
– this is almost always due to
an incorrect program. (or the wrong program for the site).
3. If after successful download, and during testing various sounders do not operate. This could
be due to too many zones being programmed for each sounder stage (max allowed is 16).
4. If after successful download, and during testing sounder begin to stop operating. This could
be due to the sounders being set to too high a volume and hence taking too much load.
Check sounder settings and turn down the volume if necessary. If this is not the case check
the hardware Revision number on the reverse of the Loop driver, ECN818 is the latest version
that delivers better load performance than the previous(ECN651).
5.
If after successful download the panel display no faults, but the front screen says ‘System
Healthy 0 Zones Active’, this is associated with a networked system. Following a download
the panel address and number of panels in the network can sometimes be returned to 1. Go
into the commissioning menu and set up the network address and total number of panels in
the network.
