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Alarm Response
The Alarm Response function controls how you would like certain activations to perform.
4.1.39 Silent 1st Alarm
If this function is selected as ‘confirmed’, then the first alarm to be activated on the system
will be silent, but if another input activates (i.e. a confirmed alarm) then the alarm tones will
be heard. This option is only valid once the system has been set for 3 minutes and not if the
entry time has started.
The default setting is ‘Never’
4.1.40 Disable Confirm On Entry
To comply with BS8243 clauses 6.4.3 and 6.4.4, this option should be set to YES to disable
confirmation once the entry procedure has started. For use with BS8243 option 6.4.5, this
option should be left at default (No).
If ‘Disable Confirm On Entry’ is set to
YES
this option will disable
ALL
confirmation signals on
entry.
If ‘Disable Confirm On Entry’ is set to
NO
the confirmation signals are enabled on expiry of
entry time.
(Default)
4.1.41 Alarm Starts / Stops (Alarm Responses)
The order of which alarm responses are activated can be programmed to your requirements.
The alarm activations you can program are: Areas, Fire, Gas, Hold Ups, and Day Alarms and
the different alarm responses are: Keypads, Internal Sounders, Sirens Only, Digi and Confirm.
The different alarm responses work on a cycle (starting from ‘Keypads’ and finishing at
‘Confirm’). Each alarm response will take 15 seconds before moving on to the next response.
For example, If the alarm response for Area A
starts
at ‘
Internal Sounders’
and
stops
at
‘
Digi
’, then once Area A is set and an alarm has been activated, the
internal sounders
will be
first to activate, then after 15 seconds the Sirens will activate (
Sirens Only
) and then after
another 15 seconds the ‘
Digi
’ will activate.
You may also program the system to operate on a combined Area basis, for example if both
Areas ‘A’ and ‘B’ are set; you may want the process of the alarm responses to change.
Therefore, you would use the ‘If Areas set’ section of this function and select the desired Areas
and the alarm responses. Another example of where this function would become useful is when
you have several inputs programmed as ’day alarm’, you may want the system to only activate
the internal sounders in unset mode, but when the system is set you may want both the
internal and external sounders to activate. To do this, when you get to “Day alarm starts”,
enter ‘1’ for Internal Sounders and press
. “Day alarm stops” will be displayed, as you do
not wish anything else to activate when the system is unset, enter ‘1’ for Internal Sounders
again. This will make the system only ever activate the internal sounders when an alarm has
activated in unset mode.
The defaults for this function are as follows:
Area Starts At
Digi
Area Stops At
Confirm
Fire, Gas
Digi
Fire, Gas
Digi
HU Starts At
Digi
HU Starts At
Confirm
Day Alarm Starts At
Sirens Only
Day Alarm Stops At
Sirens Only
NOTE: If any scenario is programmed as ‘Starts at Digi’ and ‘Stops at Confirmed’ then
there will be no 15 second pause between each “stage” and there will be no cycle. All
keypads, internal sounders, sirens and panel signalling will all start immediately and
simultaneously.