7 RECORDING

7-4 Alarm Recording

1Preparation

Connect an alarm sensor to the rear panel’s alarm input terminal.

Press the [OPERATE] button to turn the operating mode on.

A LARM / SENSOR REC MODE

Setting the function menu switches for the Alarm

2Record mode

Press the [MENU] button to display the main menu

3screen on the monitor.

Press the [SHIFT +/-] button to select <FUNCTION> and press the [SET +/-] button.

[The function menu switch setting screen is 4 displayed.

Press the [SHIFT +/-] button to display the alarm/sensor

5recording mode setting screen.

Select the item to be set with the [SHIFT +/-] button. Set the value with the [SET +/-] button.

Set <ALARM REC> to ON to activate the alarm recording function. The AL REC indication in the display lights.

Set the alarm recording duration.

Set duration to 5 sec., 15 sec., 30 sec., 60 sec., 120 sec., 180 sec., TAPE END or MANUAL (for as long as alarm signals are input).

*When the alarm recording time is set to MANUAL, the alarm cue signal (index code) will not be recorded correctly if alarm input lasts for less than 30 seconds.

*When alarm recording duration is set with an external switcher, set the alarm recording duration to MANUAL.

To sound the buzzer during alarm recording, set <BUZZER> to ON.

Set the operation mode at tape end in the case when

alarm recording is executed even once with the menu switch <TAPE END MODE> on the alarm/sensor recording mode setting screen.

STOP

: The tape stops.

REW

: The tape is rewound to the beginning and

 

stops.

REPEAT : Recording continues from the beginning of

 

the tape.

6EJECT

: The tape is ejected.

After setting the function menu switches, press the [MENU] button twice.

[The normal screen is restored.

Check the time and data shown on the monitor's on- screen display.

If the time and date are not shown on the monitor or if

Alarm recording function

Alarm recording duration

(ALARM REC)

ON

(SENSOR REC)

OFF

Buzzer

(DURATION)

180SEC

(BUZZER)

OFF

 

(TAPE END MODE)

STOP

7Tape end mode

PRESS (SHIFT, SET)

PRESS (MENU) TO END

Alarm/sensor recording mode setting screen

Select the timelapse recording mode with the [TIME MODE] button on the front panel.

[The selected recording mode is shown on the VCR's

8 display and the on-screen display.

9Follow the procedures for "Recording" on page 27.

When an alarm signal is input to the rear panel's ALARM IN terminal, alarm recording is executed as

0specified.

To stop alarm recording and clear the alarm indication, press the [AL/PL RESET] button.

When the AL indication is lit on the display (during alarm recording), press the [AL/PL RESET] button to stop alarm recording. Timelapse recording is resumed and the AL indication goes out. If the alarm buzzer is on, it stops as well.

When the AL indication is blinking on the display, press the [AL/PL RESET] button. The AL indication

!goes out.

When the AL indication goes out, press the [AL/PL RESET] button again to reset the alarm input/power loss data.

*There may be some picture distortion at the start or end of an alarm recording. This is not a malfunction.

you want to change the display position, use the <POSITION> function menu switch.

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JVC SR-9240EK appendix Stop, Rew, Alarm/sensor recording mode setting screen