Viewing A Custom Action; Defining A Custom Action; Working With Custom Alarms - Tait TB8100 User Manual

Working with Custom Alarms

TB8100 Service Kit User's Manual

Viewing a Custom Action

1. Click an item in the Custom Action Name column.
2. View the Standard Actions column. It lists the standard actions that the
custom action consists of.

Defining a Custom Action

1. Click New.
2. Edit the name that appears in the Custom Action Name column.
3. Click in the first row of the Standard Actions column and select an action
from the list.
4. Repeat step 3 for all the standard actions that will go to make up the custom
action.
5. Click OK.
The Custom Alarms form (Configure > Task Manager > Custom Alarms)
displays the number and name of the available custom alarms.
You can rename any of the available alarms to provide a more meaningful name
such as 'Door open.'
Custom alarms are needed to provide an alarm when an external event activates
a digital input. They can be triggered by any event that changes a Task Manager
input.
To set up a custom alarm, define a Task Manager task with any input and
as the action. You probably also need to define another task with
custom alarm
the action
Clear custom alarm
the alarm is triggered. Custom alarms appear in the list of reported alarms
(Monitor > Alarms > Reported Alarms). They can be sent to a syslog collector
or (as part of the fault log) to an Alarm Center. Unlike other alarms, they cannot
be inputs to Task Manager and cannot be disabled. They do not cause the
control panel alarm LED to flash.
. When the input of the first task becomes true,
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Raise