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Fire Alarm System
THIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY TO RESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS
General Your fir e alarm sy ste m (if inst all ed ) is on 24 hour s a day , for
continuous protection. In the ev ent of an emergency, the
strategically located smoke and heat de tectors will sound their
alarms and automatically send signals to your sy stem, triggering a
loud, interrupted pulsed sound* from the Keypad(s) and any
external sounders. A FIRE message will appear at your K eypad and
remain on until you silence the alarm (see below for silencing fire
alarms).
* Temporal pulse sounding is produced f or Fire alarms, as follows:
3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause. . . , rep eated.
TYPICAL FIRE EMERGENCY DISPLAYS
FIRE 01 MASTER
BEDROOM
01
0101
01
ALARM
FIRE
AC
ALPHA DISP LAY KEYP AD
FIXED-WORD DISPLAY KEYPAD
Silencing
Fire Alarms and
Clearing Memory
of Alarm
1. You can sil ence the alarm at any time by pressing the OFF key
(the security code is not needed to silence fire alarms). To clear the
display, enter your code and press the OFF key again (to clear
Memory of Alarm).
2. If the Keypad's FIRE disp lay does not clear after the second OF F
sequence, smoke detectors may still be respond ing to smoke or
heat producing objects in their vicinity. In vestigate, and should
this be the case, eliminate the source of heat or smoke.
3. If this does not remedy th e problem, there may still be smoke in
the detector. Clear it by fanning the d etector for about 30 seconds.
When the problem has been corrected , clear the display by
entering your code and pressing the OFF key.
Smoke Detector
Reset
Depending on the type of smoke detec tors in your system, it may be
necessary to "reset" the smoke detectors after a fir e alarm has been
turned off. Check with your installer. This "reset" is accomplished at
a keypad, as follows:
Enter security code ( except “arm only ” user), then press the [1] key.
NOTE: During smoke detector reset, “ FAULT xx” appears (about six
seconds) and should disappear if the d etector is clear.