Alarm Operation - Fire-Lite MS-9200UDLS Manual

Operating Instructions
if the troubles were never acknowledged. Note that pressing the Alarm Silence key when only
troubles exist in the system will have the same effect as pressing the Acknowledge/Step key except
the Alarm Silenced LED will light.

4.5 Alarm Operation

Alarm operation is similar to trouble operation with the following differences:
• The piezo sounder produces a steady output as opposed to a pulsed output
• The Fire Alarm LED flashes 1 second On and 1 second Off
• The LCD displays Alarm along with the device name, type, address, adjective/noun, associated
zones and time/date
• Communicate the alarm to the Central Station
• Alarms latch and are not allowed to clear automatically
• Alarms activate software zones if so programmed
• Timers for Silence Inhibit, Autosilence and Trouble Reminder are started
• Alarms activate the general alarm relay and general alarm zone Z00
• The trouble relay is not activated
• Store event in history buffer
• Terminate upload or download communications
• Alarms must be Acknowledged before the FACP can be reset
A typical alarm display would be as illustrated below:
Note that the device type, which in this example is PULL STATION, can be any other
programmable alarm type.
The information displayed in the above example provides the following information:
• First line in display:
The type of event; in this example ALARM indicating an alarm condition
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Device type identifier; in this example, PULL STATION indicates a manual pull box. Other
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device type identifiers which can be displayed include SMOKE (ION) for Ionization
Detector, HEAT for Heat Detector, CONTROL for Control Module and MONITOR for
Monitor Module, PULL STATION for a manual pull box, etc. Refer to "Edit Detector" on
page 67, "Edit Module Screen for Monitor Module" on page 77 and "Edit Module Screen
for Control Modules" on page 86 for information on additional device types.
• Second line in display:
<ADJ>; refers to the user programmed adjective descriptor from library list resident in the
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control panel or custom entry via PC.
<NOUN>; refers to the user programmed noun descriptor from library list resident in the
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control panel or custom entry via PC.
• Third line in display: Z000 indicates the zone programmed to this device which, in this
example, is general alarm Zone 000. Note that a single device can be programmed to five
different zones but only the first zone will be displayed.
• Fourth line in display:
Time; the current time in this example is 10:00A which represents 10:00 AM
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ALARM PULL STATION
<ADJ> <NOUN>
10:00A 010810 1M001
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