Supervisory Conditions; How The 4010Es Indicates The Presence Of A Supervisory Condition; What Acknowledge Does - Simplex 4010ES Operator's Manual

5 Supervisory conditions

A Supervisory condition indicates the following:
• Some part of the building's fire protection system is disabled. An example of this is a sprinkler tamper switch being activated due to a
fire sprinkler control valve being closed.
• A lower priority initiating device (such as a duct smoke detector) has been triggered.
Depending on the system design, a Supervisory point can be:
• Latching. The panel must be reset to clear the Supervisory condition.
• Non-latching. The indicators (LED, buzzer, etc.) turn off automatically when the condition clears.
This section describes using the Operator Interface Panel keys to investigate the details of the supervisory condition.
5.1

How the 4010ES indicates the presence of a supervisory condition

When a supervisory condition is detected by the 4010ES, the panel does the following to indicate the presence of the condition.
• Yellow LED, labeled SUPERVISORY flashes.
• Tone-alert (piezo buzzer) sounds steady.
• The alphanumeric display on the interface panel indicates supervisory condition, as shown below:
5.2

What acknowledge does

The first step in managing a supervisory condition is to acknowledge the condition. Acknowledging a supervisory does two important things:
• It records the time and date at which you observed the presence of the condition and stores that information in the system's historical
log.
• When you press the acknowledge key, the system displays specific data on the location of the supervisory condition.
It is important to understand that the 4010ES can be configured with either Global or Individual Acknowledge. These options function as
follows:
• Global Acknowledge. When global acknowledge is enabled, one press of the SUPV ACK key acknowledges every point currently
reporting a supervisory condition.
• Individual Acknowledge. If individual acknowledge is enabled, the SUPV ACK key must be pressed to individually acknowledge each
supervisory condition. Individual acknowledge must be selected if the panel is providing proprietary receiving service in accordance
with NFPA72.
The SUPV ACK key, which is used to acknowledge supervisory conditions (either globally or individually), is located just beneath the
SUPERVISORY LED. Refer to Figure 3. If the SUPV ACK key is passcode protected (by default, it is not), you cannot use this key to
acknowledge supervisory conditions unless you have the required passcode.
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Figure 3: Interface panel showing supervisory condition
4010ES Fire Alarm Operator's Manual
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