GX-6000 Operator’s Manual
Chapter 3: Operation • 43
Responding to Alarms
This section describes response to gas, over range, battery, sensor failure, clock failure,
system failure, man down, and panic alarms.
Responding to Gas Alarms
1 . Determine which gas alarm has been activated.
2 . Follow your established procedure for an increasing gas condition or a decreasing
oxygen condition.
3 . Reset or silence the alarm as necessary or allowed. Table 7 below summarizes
resetting and silencing alarms for all
ALARM LATCHING
and
ALARM
SILENCE
combinations that are possible. See “Updating the Alarm Latching
Setting (ALARM LATCHING)” on page 147 and “Updating the Alarm Silence
Setting (ALARM SILENCE)” on page 147 for further descriptions of these
parameters.
Panic
User presses and holds the
SHIFT
▼
(PANIC) button.
• Screen unaffected for 5 seconds
before alarm starts
•
MAN DOWN
flashes at top of
screen in place of time
• Alarm LED arrays flash in circle
sequence twice per second
• Backlight turns on
• Single pulsing tone
twice per second for 5
seconds before alarm
starts
• High-low tone sounding
twice per second
• Vibrator pulses twice
per second
Table 7: Resetting and Silencing Alarms
ALARM LATCHING: LATCHING
ALARM LATCHING: SELF RESET
ALARM
SILENCE:
ON
(factory setting)
• Press and release the RESET button to
silence the buzzer.
• If the gas concentration was still above
the alarm level when the button was
pressed, the LED arrays continue to
flash, the vibrator continues to pulse,
and the GX-6000 continues to display
the current alarm level.
• The gas reading must fall below (or rise
above for an oxygen low alarm) an
alarm setting before you can reset the
alarm, the LEDs, and the vibrator using
the RESET button.
• Press and release the RESET button to
silence the buzzer.
• The RESET button will not reset the
alarm.
• Alarm, LEDs, and vibrator will
automatically reset when gas reading
falls below (or rises above for an
oxygen low alarm) an alarm setpoint.
ALARM
SILENCE:
OFF
• RESET button will not silence buzzer.
• The gas reading must fall below (or rise
above for an oxygen low alarm) an
alarm setting before you can reset the
alarm condition using the RESET
button.
• RESET button will not silence or reset
alarm.
• Alarm condition will automatically reset
when gas reading falls below (or rises
above for an oxygen low alarm) an
alarm setpoint.
Table 6: Alarm Types and Indications
Alarm Type
Visual Indications
Other Indications