Reviewing Co-Existing Memory And Trouble Information; Correcting Trouble Situations; Special Functions; Looking After People Left At Home - Visonic PowerMax User Manual

• Communication failure - A message could not be sent
to the central monitoring station or to a private telephone
(or a message was sent but was not acknowledged).
• CPU low battery - The backup battery within the control
panel is weak and must be replaced (see Para. 9.1).
• CPU tamper - The control panel is being tampered with.
• Fuse Trouble - The siren fuse is burnt out.
IMPORTANT! If the trouble beeps bother you, disarm the
system (even though it is already disarmed). This will
cancel the trouble beeps for 4 hours.
B. Investigating Trouble Sources
In a state of trouble, a flashing TRBL message is
displayed as shown in the following examples:
R E A D Y
(alternating)
R E A D Y
or, if the system is not ready for arming -
N O T R E A D Y
(alternating)
N O T R E A D Y
You can review the current troubles one by one, by clicking
the SHOW/OK button.
EXAMPLE: The kitchen sensor - zone No. 9 - has been
inactive and the living room sensor - zone No. 15 - has
reported a low battery. However, these troubles do not
prevent the system from being "ready to arm".
To investigate the source of trouble, proceed as follows:
Action
R E A D Y
Z 0 9 I N A C T I V E
K I T C H E N
Z 1 5 L O W B A T T E R Y
L I V I N G R O O M
In response to further clicking of <SHOW/OK>, the display
will show details of other troubles (if any), or will revert to
the initial alternating displays (see example above).

6 6 6 6 . SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

. SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
. SPECIAL FUNCTIONS . SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

6.1 Looking after People Left at Home

An important characteristic of the PowerMax is its ability to
function in a mode contrary to the usual behavior of an
alarm system. When the system is in the disarmed state
(or even when armed "HOME" with perimeter protection
only), it can keep track of in-house activity and will report
lack of motion in interior zones if there is no detection of
motion within predetermined time limits.
To use this characteristic, you must ask your installer to
program a specific time limit beyond which lack of motion
will be reported as a "not active" alert.
To make things clear, let us assume that an elderly, sick or
handicapped person is left unattended in a protected site.
This person, disabled or sick as he may be, will not stay
entirely still for hours. It is only natural that even while
being asleep he will turn over in his bed from time to time.
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H H : M M
T R B L
H H : M M
T R B L
Resultant Display
H H : M M
(alternating)
(alternating)
5.3 Reviewing Co-Existing Memory and
Trouble Information
If alarms / tamper events are retained in the alarm
memory and at the same time a state of trouble exists, the
display will behave as shown below:
R E A D Y
R E A D Y
R E A D Y
or, if the system is not ready to arm -
N O T R E A D Y
N O T R E A D Y M E M O R Y
N O T R E A D Y
To read status information - memory data, open zones and
trouble sources (in this order) - click the <SHOW / OK>
button repeatedly. The memory content will be displayed
first, in the same manner shown in Para. 5.1. If the system
is not ready, open zone information will follow in the same
manner as shown in Para 2.2. Trouble sources will be
displayed last, in the same manner shown in Para. 5.2.

5.4 Correcting Trouble Situations

The trouble indications (illuminated TROUBLE indicator
and flashing TRBL message) are cleared once you
eliminate the cause for trouble. If you do not know how
Sound
to cope with a trouble situation, report it to your
installer and seek his advice.
INACTIVITY: Once an inactive sensor renews its periodical
transmissions, the inactivity trouble no longer exists and
will no longer be indicated by the control panel.
LOW BATTERY: Upon replacing the battery in a wireless
device that reported a low battery, the next transmission
made by the relevant sensor will include a "battery
restored" message, and "low battery" will no longer be
indicated by the control panel.
SYSTEM TROUBLE: Correction of any one of the system
troubles is automatically sensed by the control panel, and
the trouble indication is cleared accordingly.
He might also wander into the kitchen to eat or drink, or to
the bathroom for other necessities. Upon doing so, the
bedroom, bathroom and kitchen motion detectors will
detect his movement.
If, for example, the "lack of motion" time limit is set by your
installer to 6 hours, a virtual 6-hour clock will carry out a
6-hour "countdown".
If motion is detected within the 6-hour time frame, the
countdown will restart from the beginning (the virtual
6-hour clock will be "reset") and no alert message will be
sent out.
If no motion is detected within the 6-hour time frame in any
interior zone, the control panel will send a "not-active"
alert message to the central monitoring station or to private
telephones designated by the installer.
H H : M M
(alternating)
M E M O R Y
(alternating)
T R B L
H H : M M
(alternating)
(alternating)
T R B L
Note: When a
voice message
is in memory,
the MSG display
will also appear
(as shown in
Para. 3.4).
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