REPORTING EMERGENCIES
Operation
An alarm creates an urgent report by such means as sounding the siren.
The alarm is indicated on the keypad(s) and stays there until a code is
entered to reset the Panel. The siren sounds for no longer than the
Siren
Reset Time.
However, the tone of the siren is usually distinct from a zone
intrusion report.
That’s it in a nutshell. However, there is more to the story.. .
If the alarm is not generated by a zone then it cannot be indicated at the
keypad as zone alarm. What you will see initially is one of the following
labels flashing:
TAMPER
SYSTEM
POWER
FIRE
Of course, if you generated the alarm by pressing a button then you
know
what the alarm is anyway! Otherwise you may find out what the particular
alarm is by viewing the Panel inputs (refer to
FEATURES
chapter). Note
that there is only one type of
FIRE
alarm.
Another important point is that there is likely to be differences in reporting
which reflect the nature of the emergency. A Medical alarm, for example,
should be sent to the Central Station but
not
sound the siren.
You
also
cannot
prevent an emergency alarm
repeating
by simply
entering a code. The repetition may be the result of faulty equipment or
unusual circumstances (for example, people temporarily forced to use a
fire door for access). You may stop the alarm from reporting by perform-
ing an operation called
exclusion (see
FEATURES
chapter). This measure
is cancelled if you arm the Panel and later disarm it.
Another optional measure which normally is selected for you automat-
ically prevents an ill-behaved alarm from repeatedly sounding the siren,
but the indicators work as usual
(lockout
option).
Now for some details on particular emergency alarms. Please note it is
important to know about
Access Code, Tamper
and
Panic
alarms.
Access Code
Access codes should be kept secret since they are used to disarm the Panel.
Your system may be programmed to prevent someone trying to discover
access codes by trying random numbers and seeing if they work. This is
done by reporting more than a certain number wrong codes being entered
one after another. This report will sound the siren and bring up the
SYSTEM
label on the keypad.
The number of wrong code entries allowed before there is an alarm is
normally set to 3. This may be increased to
10,
or made unlimited if you
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