Testing The Installation; Installer Mode - TDSi EXcel4 User Manual

3 Testing the installation

The installation can be tested without using the computer by doing the following:
1. Apply power to the EXcel
flashes per second.
2. put unit into installer mode
Test the unit without any software using installer mode:
The installer mode allows you to test the cards which will work with the readers; verify the
doors are opening by the card. (Any card of the correct reader technology will activate
all doors relays)
Also you can test the egress buttons open the doors but this would happen outside of
installer mode anyway.
On first power up out the box the Unit will be ready to be placed into installer mode. To
place the ACU ready for installer mode can be done by performing a Reset.

3.1 Installer mode

1. Press the tamper switch down for 5 seconds
2. Release the tamper switch for 5 seconds
3. Press the tamper switch down again for 5 seconds
4. Release the tamper switch again for 5 seconds
5. Press the tamper switch down again for 5 seconds
6. Release the tamper switch again for 5 seconds – The ACU will bleep once when in
Installer Mode.
7. The LED on the reader(s) will start flashing at about two flashes per second.
(If a door sensor is fitted to Door 1, the on-board buzzer may sound after 15 seconds. If
this happens it is because the ACU thinks the door is open, and is signaling that the
door has been left open too long. If the door is in fact closed, this can be corrected
once EXgarde software is talking to EXpert. Temporarily, silence the buzzer by opening
the door or replacing the factory-fitted link across the door sensor inputs of door 1).
8. Present a correct technology card to one of the readers. The flashing rate should
change to one flash every two seconds.
9. Present the card again – relays 1 and 2 should be energised for 5 seconds. (At this
stage, the EXpert has not been told whether it is a one-door or two-door installation).
Note that until the first card is programmed using EXgarde, ANY card of the correct
technology will trigger both relays.
the LED on the reader(s) should start flashing at about two
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