Digital Monitoring Products Inc PC0159 User Manual

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This section allows you to assign functions to the burglary area of the communicator. 

All non-24-hour zones must be assigned to an active area. See the section on Zone

Information.

Only Area 1 is available to program.

Default Area Name is AREA 1. To change the area name in the system, press any Select

key and then enter up to 16 characters for the new name. Press COMMAND to continue.

Refer to the Entering Alpha Characters section.

Select YES to allow this area to arm automatically according to the opening and closing

schedule.

If Closing Check is selected as YES, the automatic arming does not take place until the

expiration of a 10-minute Closing Check delay. If the area has been disarmed outside a

schedule, the Closing Check delay occurs one hour after the area is disarmed.

At arming, faulted zones are handled according to the option selected in Bad Zones. If

a Closing report is sent, the user number is indicated as SCH on the SCS-1R or SCS-VR

Receivers. Select NO to disable automatic arming for this area. Default is NO.

NO disables automatic disarming by schedule for this area. Select YES to allow this area

to automatically disarm according to a schedule. If an Opening report is sent to the

receiver, the user number is indicated as SCH.

This allows you to define the operation of each protection zone used in the system.

The communicator has four zones to program. Enter the number of the zone you intend

to program. Press COMMAND to enter a zone name. Refer to the Enter Alpha Characters

section.

Press any Select key and enter up to 16 characters for the zone name. A name must be

given to each zone in the system. This name can be displayed at the keypads when the

zone is bad or viewed in Display Events. The zone name is also sent to the receiver as

part of a zone event report.

A zone that is not part of the system must be marked *UNUSED*. To mark a zone unused,

de lete the old name by pressing any Select key, then press the COMMAND key. The pro-

grammer auto matically pro grams the name as * UNUSED *. If you selected ZONES? NO

YES to clear the communicator’s memory during Initialization, the zones will already be

marked * UNUSED *. See the Initialization section.

The Zone Type defines the response of the communicator to the zone being open or 

short. Refer to the Appendix for zone type defaults and descriptions.

When you assign a Zone Type to a zone, responses are made automatically for the zone.

There are 11 Zone Types to choose from including Blank. The func tional details of each

response are described in Zone Type Defaults in the Appendix.

To select a new Zone Type, press any Select key. The display lists the four Zone Types

shown below. When the Zone Type you want to select displays, press the Select key

below the name.

Blank, Night, Day, or Exit. Press COMMAND to display additional zone types.

Fire, Panic, Emergency, or Supervisory. Press COMMAND to display additional zone types.

Auxiliary 1, Auxiliary 2, Fire Verify, or Arming. Press the Back Arrow key to display the

previous zone types.

If you select Blank, Night, Day, Exit, Auxiliary 1, or Auxiliary 2 as the Zone Type, the

zone must be assigned to an area. If you select Fire, Panic, Emergency, or Supervisory as

the Zone Type, these are 24-hour zones that are always armed and no area assignment is

needed. Press COMMAND to continue.

Refer to the Appendix for zone type specifications and descriptions.

AREA INFORMATION

AREA 1

AUTO ARM  NO YES

AUTO DIS 

NO YES

ZONE INFORMATION

ZONE NO: -

* UNUSED *

ZONE TYPE: BLANK

A1  A2  AR FV

FI  PN  EM SV

AREA NO: -

--  NT  DY EX