ENTRY TIME : This is the time programmed to allow the user to reach the Control Panel to disarm the system before an alarm occurs. The Entry time may be set between 01 – 240 seconds, depending on your own requirements. The programme default Entry time is 30 seconds. If the system is not disarmed during the Entry delay period, a full alarm will occur when the Entry time expires
EXIT TIME : This is the time programmed to allow the user to exit the premises before the system finally arms. The programme default Exit time is 30 seconds however, this time may be set between 01 – 99 seconds, depending on your requirements. You will need to leave all protected areas and close protected doors/windows before the Exit time expires or a full alarm condition will occur.
ALARM DURATION : This is the time that the External Siren will sound for following an alarm activation. The programme default Alarm duration time is 20 minutes, however this can be set to between 01 – 20 minutes, depending on individual requirements.
Note: Most Local Authority noise pollution requirements set limits acceptable for alarm duration. You should therefore check your Local Authority requirements.
Chime Zones: allow you to keep track of activity in the protected area while the alarm system is in the disarmed state. Whenever a chime zone is “opened”, the buzzer beeps twice. The buzzer doesn’t beep, however, upon closing the zone (return to normal). Residences can use this feature to annunciate visitors or look after children. Businesses can use it to signal when customers enter the premises or when personnel enter restricted areas.
Note: Your installer will never designate a 24-hour zone or a fire zone as a chime zone, because both zone types actuate an alarm if disturbed while the system is in the disarmed state.
Although one zone or more are designated as chime zones, you can still enable or disable the chime function.
Arming: Arming the alarm system is an action that prepares it to sound an alarm if a zone is “violated” by motion or by opening a door or window, as the case may be. The control panel may be armed in various modes
(see AWAY, HOME, INSTANT and LATCHKEY).
Abort Period: When an alarm is initiated, the internal sounder is activated first for a limited period of time which is the abort period set by the installer. If you cause an alarm accidentally, you can disarm the system within the abort period before the real sirens start and before the alarm is reported to the remote responders.
AWAY: This type of arming is used when the protected site is vacated entirely. All zones, interior and perimeter alike, are protected.
Disarming: The opposite of arming – an action that restores the control panel to the normal standby state. In
this state, only fire and 24-hour zones will sound an alarm if violated, but a “panic alarm” may also be initiated.
Disturbed Zone: A zone in a state of alarm (this may be caused by an open window or door or by motion in the field of view of a motion detector). A disturbed zone is considered “not secured”.
Forced Arming: When any one of the system zones is disturbed (open), the alarm system cannot be armed. One way to solve this problem is to find and eliminate the cause for zone disturbance (closing doors and windows).
Another way to deal with this is to impose forced arming – automatic de-activation of zones that happen to be disturbed. After force-arming and while the system is still in the armed state, de-activated zone(s) that are restored to normal (closed) will automatically become protected and will initiate an alarm if “opened” again.
Permission to use this arming method is given or denied by the installer while programming the system.
Quick Arming: Arming without a user code. The control panel does not request your user code when you press one of the arming buttons. Permission to use this arming method is given or denied by the installer while programming the system.
QUICK ARMING: Arming without a user code. The control panel does not request your user code when you press one of the arming buttons. Permission to use this arming method is given or denied by the installer while programming the system.