Tyco 4100U installation manual Appendix D Earth Fault Detection

Appendix D

Earth Fault Detection

Overview	This appendix contains instructions on how to use the Earth Fault Search feature of the
	4100U diagnostics menus.
	Earth Fault Search is a diagnostic search of external field wiring that assists in locating
	circuits with earth faults. An earth fault occurs when an electrical circuit is shorted to
	ground. Although most circuits operate with a single earth fault, multiple earth faults can
	disable communications. Because of this, earth faults must be located and repaired.
	Earth Fault Search is conducted by the FACP. The diagnostic may be activated using
	either the front panel interface or the Computer Port Protocol (CPP), via a service port.

The 4100U supports two types of Earth Fault Searches:

•Location Search. Searches all circuits at a location, such as a transponder or the main panel. For the purposes of Earth Fault Searching,

-A location is composed of a group of slaves connected to each other via 4100 Comm (local RUI).

-The main panel is defined as all slaves local to the Master CPU.

-A transponder denotes all slaves associated with a single Transponder Interface Card (TIC)/Local Mode TIC slave.

•IDNet Channel Search. Selectively enables channel isolators and repeaters to detect which segment of the channel wiring has a fault.

-Earth faults are detected by one of the following:

-A single designated power supply at a location. The power supply that detects the fault is designated via a jumper setting on the power supply slave. For any given location, only one power supply should detect earth faults.

-Each 4009 IDNet NAC Extender on an IDNet channel.

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