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Using the Configurator
19.54 Configuring suite silence
Configure suite silence
1. Select
Job Details
in the job tree.
2. Set the Alert rate to Alert and the Evac rate to
Temporal
.
3. If the job has audio, click the
Set up
button under
Audio
. Click the buttons beside
Alert
and
Evac
and set the alert rate to
Alert
and the Evac rate to
Temporal
.
4. Set
New Alarm
to 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, the signals will stop in the correlated
zones, except the zone where the alarm was initiated.
5. Set
Auto Resound
to 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the alarm will sound in all the suites
if it has not been acknowledged.
6. Set
Signal Silence Inhibit
to 60 seconds.
7. Set
Auto Signal Silence
to
Disabled
.
Figure 167 Timers for suite silence
8. Create an alarm zone for each floor.
9. Create 2 signal circuits for each floor - one circuit for the suites, and one for the hallways.
10. Correlate each floor alarm zone to the corresponding suite's signal circuits.
11. Correlate Common Alarm to the Hallways' signal circuits.
12. Correlate the
Common Alarm
common system status to the hallways' signal circuits.
13. Correlate the
New Alarm Active
common system status to all suite signal circuits.
14. Correlate the
Auto Suite Resound
common system status to all suite signal circuits.
19.55 Signal Silence Operation
This section describes how to configure the notification appliance circuits (NACs) in
accordance with four types of signal silence operation:
•
Basic Signal Silence Operation:
A Basic Signal Silence Operation is considered to be
any system whereby activation of the signal silence switch following receipt of an alarm
is uninhibited.
•
Modified Signal Silence Operation:
A Modified Signal Silence Operation is considered
to be any system whereby activation of the signal silence switch following receipt of an
alarm is partially inhibited: the audible signals are deactivated and the visual signals
remain activated.
•
Non-Silenceable Waterflow Alarm Operation:
A Non-Silenceable Waterflow Alarm
Operation is considered to be any system whereby activation of a waterflow alarm shall
inhibit the signal silencing of audible and/or visual signals.
