Emergency Alarms; General; Silencing And Resetting An Emergency Alarm - First Alert FA2000C User Manual

EMERGENCY AND 24 HOUR NON-FIRE ALARMS

General

*Except for silent alarms
Silencing
and Resetting
an Emergency Alarm
Your system may have sensors which detect non-fire related alarm conditions, such as the
unauthorized opening of a stock room door, the triggering of an HVAC (Heating,
Ventilating, or Air Conditioning) temperature sensor, the pressing of a holdup alarm button,
etc. Your system may provide some or all of the indications listed below, depending on
what your installer selected to occur when one of those conditions is detected.
If your system's keypad has any active emergency alarm key(s) (see REMOTE KEYPAD
EMERGENCY KEYS section) these indications may be manually triggered by pressing the
appropriate emergency key.
¥ The control's buzzer and keypad buzzer both produce a steady sound*.
¥ The external alarm sounders produce a steady sound*.
¥ The keypad LCD (Fixed-Word) displays the word "ALARM" and the zone number in
alarm. Alpha keypads also display a description of the zone in alarm*.
ALARM 02
TEMPERATURE
ALPHA
¥ An emergency alarm message is sent to the central station.
To silence the control and keypad
buzzers and external alarm sounders:
Press the control's SILENCE/RESET
button or enter your User Code + the
OFF key.
The keypad's LCD will display the
number of the zone in alarm as
a Memory of Alarm indication.
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02
AWAY
SUPV NO AC
PHONE TEST
BYPASS
NOT READY
STAY
ALARM
CHIME BAT
FIRE
CHECK INSTANT TAMPER
FIXED-WORD
To reset the keypad alarm display and
turn off the SILENCED LED at the
control: First correct the cause of the alarm
condition, and then:
Press the SILENCE/RESET button again
or re-enter your User Code, followed by
the OFF key.