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3. About the MCRP054 weather monitoring unit
Fig. 1 Monitoring unit’s front panel.
On the front panel, there are LEDs which indicate the status of the
control center:
# Description
Color
Function
1 POWER SUPPLY
green
indicates presence of power
supply
2 WIND
red
wind alarm
3 RAIN
red
rain alarm
4 VENT OPEN
amber
indicates that smoke vents
(windows) are open
5 WIND SPEED
7 x amber
1 x red
wind speed – LED line
indicator; scale from about
0 m/s to about 15 m/s
The interior of the weather monitoring unit is shown in Fig. 2.
At the bottom left section of the unit’s PCB, there are two
potentiometers (1,2).
Potentiometer 1 is used to set the sensitivity of the rain sensor:
from a drizzle (far left) to a heavy rain (far right).
Potentiometer 2 is used to set the sensitivity of the wind sensor:
from 5 m/s (far left) to 15 m/s (far right).
Above the potentiometers there are two jumpers: H2 (3) and H3
(4). They are used to switch the weather monitoring unit into the remote
control mode:
remote control mode
local control mode (factory settings)
