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Alarm List

Pressing the F4 key while in the main menu causes the ACTIVE ALARM LIST to appear on the Panel display:

Key LEDs:

Alarms are displayed according to an alarm bit field that is found in memory location %M001 through %M016 in the PLC. For example, if %M008 is changed from 0 to 1 in the PLC, alarm 8 is entered in the alarm list. (More information about the alarm bit field structure in the PLC can be found in chapter 4.) Also, see the PANELWARE™ Configuration Software Reference Manual (GFK-0849) for a more detailed description of alarms.

An entry in the list contains the following information:

Alarm time

 

When the alarm occurred

Alarm number

Number of the alarm (corresponds to the bit number in the alarm bit field)

Alarm text

 

Short description of the alarm

Information

 

Information about the type of alarm

Priority

 

Priority of the alarm

The following functions are assigned to keys F1 F3:

F1

Acknowledgment for the selected alarm.

F2/F3 Scroll through the alarms in the alarm list (F2=Up; F3=Down). Scrolling through the list selects an alarm (inverse display), which can be acknowledged by pressing the F1 key.

Pressing the F4 key returns you to the main menu.

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GE Monogram GFK-1115 manual Alarm List, Alarm time When the alarm occurred Alarm number