ADT Security Services 200 Plus manual Limitations of this Alarm System

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WARNING!

THE LIMITATIONS OF THIS ALARM SYSTEM

While this system is an advanced design security system, it does not offer guaranteed protection against burglary or fire or other emergency. Any alarm system, whether commercial or residential, is subject to compromise or failure to warn for a variety of reasons. For example:

•Intruders may gain access through unprotected openings or have the technical sophistication to bypass an alarm sensor or disconnect an alarm warning device.

•Intrusion detectors (e.g., passive infrared detectors), smoke detectors, and many other sensing devices will not work without power. Battery-operated devices will not work without batteries, with dead batteries, or if the batteries are not put in properly. Devices powered solely by AC will not work if their AC power supply is cut off for any reason, however briefly.

•Signals sent by wireless transmitters may be blocked or reflected by metal before they reach the alarm receiver. Even if the signal path has been recently checked during a weekly test, blockage can occur if a metal object is moved into the path.

•A user may not be able to reach a panic or emergency button quickly enough.

•While smoke detectors have played a key role in reducing residential fire deaths in the United States, they may not activate or provide early warning for a variety of reasons in as many as 35% of all fires, according to data published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some of the reasons smoke detectors used in conjunction with this System may not work are as follows. Smoke detectors may have been improperly installed and positioned. Smoke detectors may not sense fires that start where smoke cannot reach the detectors, such as in chimneys, in walls, or roofs, or on the other side of closed doors. Smoke detectors also may not sense a fire on another level of a residence or building. A second-floor detector, for example, may not sense a first-floor or basement fire. Moreover, smoke detectors have sensing limitations. No smoke detector can sense every kind of fire every time. In general, detectors may not always warn about fires caused by carelessness and safety hazards like smoking in bed, violent explosions, escaping gas, improper storage of flammable materials, overloaded electrical circuits, children playing with matches, or arson. Depending upon the nature of the fire and/or the locations of the smoke detectors, the detector, even if it operates as anticipated, may not provide sufficient warning to allow all occupants to escape in time to prevent injury or death.

•Passive Infrared Motion Detectors can only detect intrusion within the designed ranges as diagrammed in their installation manual. Passive Infrared Detectors do not provide volumetric area protection. They do create multiple beams of protection, and intrusion can only be detected in unobstructed areas covered by those beams. They cannot detect motion or intrusion that takes place behind walls, ceilings, floors, closed doors, glass partitions, glass doors, or windows. Mechanical tampering, masking, painting or spraying of any material on the mirrors, windows or any part of the optical system can reduce their detection ability. Passive Infrared Detectors sense changes in temperature; however, as the ambient temperature of protected area approaches the temperature range of 90° to 105°F, the detection performance can decrease.

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Contents Security System Table of Contents FOCUS 200 Plus Features System OverviewIntroduction System Overview cont’d Control UnitOperating Panel User Access and Security Protection Points and GroupsAutomated Event Recording and Printing SummaryFalse Alarm Prevention False Alarm Prevention cont’d You must help eliminate false alarmsPreventing causes of false alarms False Alarm Prevention cont’d Quick Start Operating Panel FunctionsQuick Start cont’d Normal Inactive ScreenFront Office OffMore Enter IDResponding to Alarms Viewing Current AlarmsEntering Your Personal ID Number Navigational Menu Selections HostageMore/First Selection Quit/Previous Selection Other Navigational SelectionsTurning BA Groups Off Summary Navigational SelectionsSome BA Groups Are on Code Accepted Continue Turn OffAction Menus 1-4 Main Features See alarms Reset Quit More Assistance The ? SelectionAction Menu Enter choiceExercise the ? Selection See points Test Change close time Previous More Exercise Turn on Burglary ProtectionBypass History Status Time Previous More Exercise TestBypass points See limits Quit Exercise BYPASS/UNBYPASS Protection PointsSysInfo ID codes Name pnt/gps Load Previous First Exercise Name PNT/GPS? First BA Group Back CHR Forward Left POS Right QuitSummary System Operation Overview Operating PanelSystem Operation Overview cont’d See alarms Reset Quit More Action MenusSee points Test Change close time Previous More Bypass History StatusTime Previous More SysInfo ID codes Name pnt/gps Load Previous First System Programming User DataSystem Programming cont’d Entering or Changing a User NameUser Selection Menu User NameUser Delete PrevChange Quit Next Deleting a User ID Code Assigning or Changing User Access Assigning Burglary Group Access Assigning Privilege LevelsSystem Programming cont’d Access Capability Assigning a Code and Card Cancel Date Assigning a User ID CodeAssigning a User a Card/Key Code Changing the Time and Date Time Selection MenuChanging the Current Time ? TimeSetting Dates for Daylight Saving Time Changing the Current DateDaily Operating Schedules Changing Daily Operating Schedules Guidelines for Changing Daily Operating Schedules Hint The system will start display with today Mon-SunChanging Auto On/Off Schedule GuidelinesSystem Programming cont’d Changing Open/Close Schedule Limits ? Time Holiday Daylight Open/close Hstg Quit CurrentHoliday Description and Dates Adding or Changing Holiday DescriptionsSystem Programming cont’d Group/Point Descriptions Changing Holiday DatesSystem Programming cont’d System Operation Turning On Burglary ProtectionTurning On ALL Burglary Groups Lesson Turn on See alarms Reset Quit More System Operation cont’dTurning On One or More Burglary Groups Turning Off Burglary Protection Turn Off Menu Turning Off ALL Burglary GroupsAre on Continue Turn OffResetting Current Alarms System History Log Triggering a PanicViewing the History Log History Selection Menu On this screen On printer QuitPrinting the History Log History Log Alpha and Event Codes Description Alpha System EventDescription Alpha Expansion Module Description Alpha Description Alpha Panic Description Alpha Other Access Bypassing/Unbypassing Burglary Protection Bypass Selection Menu Group Selection MenuBypassing Protection Points Group Description PreviousNext QuitQuit Bypass VVS Unbypassing Protection PointsBypassing/Unbypassing Vault Vibration Sensors VVS Extending Close Time Sending Messages to a Pager System Test Burglary Protection Points AudibleSystem Test cont’d Protection Points VisualTesting Holdup, Fire, and Supervisory Devices Protection GroupsBell and Operating Panel Display Troubleshooting Guide Trouble or Error Display Description ActionTroubleshooting Guide cont’d Time to turn on ‘Group Description’ or extend closing timeFire, SPV or Holdup points bypassed Fire Alarm Application Note About Fire Alarm CodesADT’s Focus 200 Plus Fire Alarm System Capabilities Code EnforcementEmergency Evacuation Federal Communications Commission FCC Part 15 Statement Notification Federal Communications Commission FCC Part 68 Notice Canadian Department of Communications DOC Statement Limitations of this Alarm System Limitations of this Alarm System ADT Service personnel working on system76 IndexLimitations of this Alarm System ÊK3693-1SIA†Š
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