Section 5: Central Station Communications - Pots Transmission; Transmittal Priorities - Honeywell Fire-Lite Alarms ES-200X Manual

Section 5: Central Station Communications - POTS Transmission

The control panel transmits zone and system status reports to Central Stations via the public switched telephone network. Two super-
vised telephone line connections are made to interface the control panel to the telephone lines. Two optional 7 foot telephone cords are
available for this purpose and can be purchased separately.
The control panel supervises both telephone lines for proper voltage. A delay of two minutes will occur before a fault in either phone line
connection is reported as a trouble. When a fault is detected, an audible trouble signal will sound, the yellow trouble LED will blink, the
LCD display will indicate the phone line trouble and the trouble condition will be reported to the Central Station over the remaining
operational phone line.
The control panel comes with line seizure capability provided for both the primary and secondary telephone line interfaces. Any time
that the control panel needs to make a call to a Central Station, line seizure will disconnect any local premises phones sharing the same
telephone line.
All transmissions to the Central Stations will be sent over the primary phone line. In the event of noisy phone lines, transmissions will be
sent over the backup secondary phone line.
Two phone numbers must be programmed, the primary Central Station phone number and the secondary Central Station phone number.
All system reports will be transmitted to the primary Central Station phone number. Reports will automatically be sent to the secondary
Central Station phone number if attempts to transmits to the primary Central Station phone number are unsuccessful. If 10 total attempts
to communicate are unsuccessful, a Communicator Failure report will be displayed.
The ES-200X meets NFPA 72 National Fire Code reporting requirements for: (a) the type of signal, (b) condition and (c) location of the
reporting premises. The general priority reporting structure is:
1. Zone Alarms and Restores
2. Zone Troubles and Restores
3. System Troubles and Restores
4. 24-hour Test
The minimum wire gauge allowed is 26 AWG.

5.1 Transmittal Priorities

The integral communicator transmits highest priority events first. Events, in terms of priority, are listed below in descending order:
1. Alarms (highest priority level)
 Pull stations
 Waterflow
 Smoke detector
 Other fire alarm types
 CO alarm
2. Supervisory Zone
3. System Troubles
 Zone disabled
 Fire drill
 AC fail (after delay)
 Zonal faults
 Earth fault
 Low battery
 Telephone line fault
 Notification Appliance Circuits fault
 Communication trouble
 Annunciator trouble
 System off normal
4. Restoral Reports
 Zone alarm
 Supervisory
 Zone(s) enabled
 Fire drill
 AC
 Zone fault
 Earth
 Battery
 Telephone line
 Notification Appliance Circuits
 Communication
 Annunciator trouble
 System off normal
5. 24 Hour Test (lowest priority)
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