Programming Alpha Descriptors - ADEMCO VISTA-120 Installation And Setup Manual

Programming Alpha Descriptors

General Information
• You can programme a user friendly English language description/location keypad display
for all protection zones, relays, keypad panics, polling loop short, and RF receiver
supervision troubles.
• Each description can be composed of a combination of words (up to a maximum of 3) that
are selected from a vocabulary of 244 words stored in memory, and any word can have an
"s" or " 's " added to it.
• In addition, up to 20 installer-defined words can be added to those already in memory.
Thus, when an alarm or trouble occurs in a zone, an appropriate description for the
location of that zone will be displayed at the keypad.
• A custom installer's message can be programmed for each partition which will be
displayed when the system is "Ready" (ex. THE PETERSON'S).
1. To programme alpha descriptors, enter Programming mode, then press #93 to display
"ZONE PROG?"
2. Press 0 (NO) twice to display "ALPHA PROG?".
3. Press 1 to enter ALPHA PROGRAMMING mode.
There are 6 sub-menu selections that will be displayed one at a time.
Press 1 to select the mode desired.
Press 0 to display the next mode available. The alpha menu selections are:
ZONE DESCRIP.?
DEFAULT SCREEN?
CUSTOM WORD?
PART DESCRIP?
EXIT EDIT MODE?
4. Refer to the sections that follow for adding alpha descriptors.
Zone Descriptors
1. Select ZONE DESCRIPTOR mode.
The keypad keys perform the following functions:
[3] Scrolls both alphabet and actual words in ascending alphabetical order.
[1] Scrolls both alphabet and actual words in descending alphabetical order.
[2] Adds or removes an "s" or " 's " to a vocabulary word.
[6] Switches between alphabet and actual word list; used to accept entries.
[8] Saves the zone description in the system's memory.
[#] # plus zone number displays the description for that zone.
2. Enter the zone number to which you want to assign a descriptor.
Ex.. Key *001 to begin entering the description for zone 1, (key *002 for zone 2, *003 for
zone 3 etc.). The following will be displayed: * ZN 001 A
Note that the first letter of the alphabet appears after the zone number, and that the
zone number is automatically included with the description.
3. Enter the descriptor for that zone.
Use one of two methods as follows:
(assume, for example that the desired description for zone 1 is BACK DOOR)
a) Press [#] followed by the 3 digit number of the first word from the fixed dictionary
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shown later in this section (e.g., [0][1][3] for BACK).
Press [6] in order to accept the word and proceed, or press [8] to store the complete
descriptor and exit, or...
for entering zone descriptors.
for creating custom message; displayed when system ready.
for creating custom words for use in descriptors.
for creating 4-character partition names.
Press 1 to exit back to #93 Menu Mode.