Honeywell 2-Partitioned Security System, VISTA-40 manual Alpha Descriptors Programming

Alpha Descriptors Programming

You can program a user-friendly English language description/location 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 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.

NOTE: Due to the use of 2-digit zone numbers, the first word of the descriptor is limited to 7 characters if you want it to fit on the top line of the display.

A custom installer’s message can be programmed for each partition, which is displayed when the system is "Ready" (e.g., THE PETERSONS’).

1.To program 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.

There are 5 submenu 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?

For entering zone descriptors.

For creating custom message; displayed when system is ready.

For creating custom words for use in descriptors.

For creating 4-character partition names.

EXIT EDIT MODE?

Press 1 to exit back to #93 Menu Mode.

4.Refer to the sections that follow for procedures 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.

For example, key [✱] 01 to begin entering the description for Zone 1, (key [✱] 02 for Zone 2, [✱] 03 for Zone 3, etc.). The following is displayed: ✱ ZN 01 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 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

b)Select the first letter of the desired description (note that "A" is already displayed). Use the 3 key to advance through the alphabet and the 1 key to go backward.

Press 3 key repeatedly until "B" appears (press 1 to go backwards if you happen to pass it), then press 6 to display the first available word beginning with “B”.

Press 3 repeatedly to advance through the available words until the word “BACK” is displayed.

To add an "s" or " 's" if you need to, press 2. The first depression adds an "s," the second depression adds an " 's, " the third depression displays no character (erases the " 's"), the fourth depression adds an "s," etc.

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