Schneider Electric 4000 manual Viewing Alarms, View Alarms, Active Alarms List High Priority Log

63230-300-212	Chapter 3—Operation
April 2001	Viewing Alarms

VIEWING ALARMS

MAIN MENU

Meters

Min/Max

View Alarms

I/O Display

Resets

Setup

Diagnostics

The Alarms menu shown in Figure 3–8,lets you view active and high priority alarms.

VIEW ALARMS

Active Alarms List

High Priority Log

Figure 3–8: View Alarms menu

When an alarm is first set up, an alarm priority is selected. Four alarm levels are available:

•High priority—if high priority alarm occurs, the display informs you in two ways:

—The LED on the display flashes while the alarm is active and until you acknowledge the alarm

—A message displays whether the alarm is active or unacknowledged.

•Medium priority—if medium priority alarm occurs, the LED flashes and a message displays only while the alarm is active. Once the alarm becomes inactive, the LED and message stop.

•Low priority—if low priority alarm occurs, the LED on the display flashes only while the alarm is active. No alarm message is displayed.

•No priority—if an alarm is setup with no priority, no visible representation will appear on the display.

If multiple alarms with different priorities are active at the same time, the display shows the alarm message for the last alarm.

Each time an alarm occurs, the circuit monitor does the following:

•Puts the alarm in the list of active alarms. See “Viewing Active Alarms” on page 42 for more about active alarms.

•Performs any assigned action. The action could be one of the following:

—Operate one or more relays (you can view the status from the display)

—Force data log entries into the user-defined data log files (1–14 data logs can be viewed from SMS)

—Perform a waveform capture (can be viewed from SMS)

•Records the occurrence of high, medium, and low priority events in the circuit monitor’s alarm Log (can be viewed using SMS).

Also, the display LED and alarm messages will operate according to the priority selected when an alarm occurs.

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