Exit Alarms; Common Zone Operation - ADT Safewatch Pro 2000 User Manual

ENTRY/EXIT DELAYS (Continued)

Exit Alarms

Whenever you arm the system, the exit delay begins. If an entry/exit door or interior zone is
faulted when the exit delay ends (e.g., exit door left open), the system sounds an alarm and
starts the entry delay timer. If you disarm the system before the entry delay ends, the alarm
To minimize false alarms
sound stops and the message "CANCELED ALARM" or "CA" is displayed on the touchpad,
sent to the Customer
along with a zone number indicating the faulted zone. No message is sent to the Customer Care
Care Center, your
Center. To clear the exit alarm condition, the open zone must be made intact; to clear
system may have been
the display, enter your code plus OFF.
programmed for this fea-
If you do not disarm the system before the entry delay ends, and an entry/exit door or interior
ture. Ask your installer if
zone is still open, the alarm sound continues and an "exit alarm" message is sent to the
"Exit Alarm" is active for
Customer Care Center. The message ""EXIT ALARM" or "EA" is displayed on the touchpad,
your system.
along with a zone number indicating the faulted zone. To stop the alarm, the system must be
disarmed (your code plus OFF); to clear the display, enter your code plus OFF a second time.
Exit Alarm Active
An "exit alarm" also results if an entry/exit door or interior zone is faulted within two minutes after
the end of the exit delay.
Your system may have been set up to use a common zone, which is an area shared by users of
Ask your
both partitions, such as a foyer or lobby. If so, please note the following:
installer if a common
• The common zone will sound and report alarms only when both partitions are armed. If only
zone was assigned.
• Either partition may arm its system if the common zone is faulted, but once armed, the other
• If either partition is armed and the other is in chime mode, the common zone will not chime.
• Faults on the common zone are displayed on touchpads in both partitions.
• Either partition can clear and restore the common zone after an alarm.

COMMON ZONE OPERATION

one partition is armed, the system ignores faults on the common zone.
partition will not be able to arm unless the common zone is first bypassed or the fault is
corrected.
The common zone will chime if both partitions are disarmed and either is in chime mode.
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