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Freedom-500 Limited Lifetime Warranty Owner's Guide NOTE: This is a “place marker” cover. The production unit has a color cover. MO_FREEDOM-500 / REV0 4/01...
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Please send me: This device complies with FCC Rules part 15. Operation is subject to the following two conditions, (1) This device may not cause harmful interference and, (2) This _____pcs. #442-09B _____pcs. #442-09S _____pcs. #441-07 _____pcs. #431-09 device must accept any interference that may be received, including interference 4-Button Black 4-Button Silver 4-Button “OEM Style”...
2 of this manual, or on the Internet at “www.caralarm.com”. button to activate Remote disarms the system unlocks To order transmitters from Omega direct, please use the form, which can be cut Panic with locking doors. the doors.
To program more features, simply repeat Steps 3 and 4. If seven seconds expire Table of Contents without any programming activity the system will automatically exit Features Pro- The Freedom-500 Owner’s Guide gramming Mode. Turning on the ignition switch will also exit the system from Features Programming Mode;...
How to Program Features Introduction The 20 programmable features, explained in the previous pages, are very easily Congratulations on the purchase of your vehicle security system. In learning to programmed by a procedure using the ignition key, Valet/Override Switch, and operate your system, please become familiar with these three components: transmitter.
Arming the System 18. 1 or 2 Button Arm/Disarm: (1 Button / •2 Button) - This feature controls how the transmitter operates the security system. The system may be "Armed" by one of two methods. The first method involves the Having this feature on the “2 Button”...
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Mode, and the Auxiliary 2nd Channel is activated, the system will bypass If a protected zone is open when actively arming using the transmitter, the sys- the current sensing and sensor zones if the system is armed. This allows a tem will still arm, but it will bypass the open zone until the zone is secured.
10. System Activation Cycle Duration: (•30 / 60 Seconds) over again when the door is closed. “Automatic Rearming” is a separate pro- - Configures the system’s activation duration cycle to be either 30 seconds or grammable operation similar to Last Door Arming, and should not be confused 60 seconds.
5. Automatic Rearming: (On / •Off) seconds, a continuously violated zone will activate the alarm for 3 minutes total - Configures the system to automatically rearm itself 90 seconds after it has before resetting and ignoring the violated zone. If the programmable activated been disarmed by the transmitter.
• The LED Status Indicator will turn “Off”, or begin flashing rapidly functions in programming mode are noted. Otherwise, pressing the Arm/Lock if the Automatic Rearming feature is programmed on or flash a Button turns the feature “on”; pressing the Disarm/Unlock Button turns the feature Zone Violation code if the alarm was activated.
The Auxiliary Channels Once the Anti-Carjacking process has begun, the user has 63 seconds to press the Valet/Override Switch in order to cancel the process. If not cancelled, at 55 Optional 2nd Channel Output (Trunk Release): If your vehicle is equipped with seconds the siren will begin to chirp for 8 seconds to alert the user that the system electric trunk release, your installing dealer can configure your system to accomplish is about to enter into an activated condition.
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If the system is armed when the Auxiliary Channel is used, it will also disarm; or, Programmable Anti-Carjacking Protection there is also has a special programmable feature, Start Mode, which is designed to allow the addition of an optional remote starter module to start the vehicle while The Freedom-500 vehicle security system is equipped with three levels of leaving the system armed (pages 25-26).
This Place the Multi- outside the vehicle. Your Omega dealer can provide details on the complete line Vehicle Switch in unique feature is further enhanced for convenient, easy...
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Zone Testing & Zone Violation: Are related visual indicators, via the LED Status To Activate Remote Panic: Press & Hold for 3 Seconds the “Arm/Lock” Indicator; the first shows currently violated zones while the system is disarmed, Button OR the “Disarm/Unlock” Button and the second, should the system be activated, shows which zone caused the activation after the fact.
To Deactivate Panic: Press & Release either the “Arm/Lock” The LED Status Indicator OR the “Disarm/Unlock” Button The Red LED Status Indicator visually shows the status of the system and also Deactivating Remote Panic from the “Arm/Lock” button results in the system be- provides a high level of visual deterrence.
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Valet Mode prevents any active arming, from the transmitter, or passive arming, as To Disarm the Security System Without The Transmitter: in Last Door Arming. Valet Mode is designed for situations in which it is not Valet Mode can only be achieved with a disarmed system. If the system is armed, convenient for the alarm portion of the system to be operational;...
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