Zones And Partitions - Honeywell ADEMCO VISTA-12A Installation And Setup Manual

Installation and Setup Guide

Zones and Partitions

Each protection zone needs to be programmed with various attributes using *56 Zone Programming
mode or *58 Expert Programming mode. Refer to those sections for detailed procedures.
The system can control three independent areas of protection (known as partitions) for use by
independent users, if desired.
Partitioning involves simply assigning zones to one of the three partitions during zone programming:
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The user's partition number can be displayed on keypads by enabling data field *198.
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The system, by default, automatically distributes users among the three partitions.
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The master user can change the user number distributions.
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Zones can also be assigned to a common area partition if partition 3 is so designated, which is
an area shared by users of the other two partitions (such as a lobby in a building).
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Common area partition allows either of the independent partitions to arm, while leaving the
common area partition disarmed for access into the other partition.
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The following describes the functioning of the common area partition, if used:
-- The common area sounds and reports alarms only when both the other partitions are
armed. If only one partition is armed, the system ignores faults in the common area.
-- Either partition may arm its system if the common area is faulted, but once armed, the
other partition will not be able to arm unless the common area zones are first bypassed or
their faults are corrected.
-- Faults in the common area are displayed on common area keypads, and will also appear
on another partition's keypad when that partition is armed.
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Either partition can clear and restore the common area after an alarm.
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