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2.
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
2.1
GENERAL
The system can accept various addresses units with any combination of these devices being
connected to any single loop, the panels having loop capacities two. The ANTARES panel is
based on the use of a Master Processor display/control card communicating with a two loop drive
Slave Processor card. The main central processor includes 10 status indiction LEDs, 20 zone
LEDs and LCD/VFD output.
The LCD/VFD used is an 80, (two lines of 40 alpha-numeric character display.
The panel has the option to enter the text messages and random zoning. These provide a specific
site related identity to each sensor. These are programmed off-site on a portable computer (Psion
or IBM compatible portable PC) and downloaded via a serial port on the main control processor
card. A back-up file of the text and zone information for all devices for each loop is stored on
datapack (Psion) or disc (PC). The zoning is such that any device can be programmed into any
zone, i.e. there is no address dependency.
The display uses two lines and gives on an individual device basis, the loop zone, device number
and status of a device plus device type and text message.
Other standard panel functions are accessed using the numeric keypad. Three menus of controls
are available to provide varying operator access level requirements in line with BS5839. The
second level menu is accessed only after entering a four digit security code. The third level is
only accessed from menu two and is also therefore code protected.
The second and third menus, options 6 and 7 respectively provide service functions which require
the use of a Psion Organiser. A socket is provided for the connection of the Psion.
In order to distinguish between fire and fault the internal sounder is pulsed for fault condition and
steady for fire. When the fire condition is silenced the internal sounder changes to the pulsed
condition.
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FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
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