Bosch Appliances Security Camera PT-400 User Manual

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Security Escort | Technical Reference Manual | 3.0  System Menus 
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3.3.4 Transponder Troubles 
Popup 
All troubles with these checkboxes 
checked present a popup screen to the 
operator when the respective trouble 
becomes active. 
Pager 
All troubles with these checkboxes 
checked send a page to the service 
pager when the respective trouble 
becomes active. 
Communications Failure 
To continually assure that 
communications between the central 
console and each transponder are 
functioning properly, each transponder 
is required to send a message to the 
central console periodically. If there 
is no response from the transponder, 
the central console displays a 
Communications Failure warning on the 
central console and records the 
condition in the audit file. 
If a transponder determines it lost 
communications with the central 
console, it assumes control of the 
outputs of the devices connected to it 
and transmits I’M OK messages until it 
is acknowledged by the central console. 
 
 
 
 
 
If during this loss of 
communications, an alarm 
 
transmission is received by 
one or more of the receivers 
attached to the transponder, 
the transponder activates any 
alert units attached to it as 
well as the horns and red 
LED’s on any of its receivers 
which detected the alarm 
transmission. Since the 
transponder does not have 
access to the Subscriber 
Database, it must assume that 
all transmitters are valid, so 
even unauthorized (not in the 
Subscriber Database) 
transmitters produce audible 
alarm indications (if the 
System is set for audible 
alarms in the Set Security 
Preferences Screen). 
The central console also attempts to 
reestablish communications by 
continually requesting transmissions 
from the transponder and listening on 
the communications channel. When 
communications are restored with the 
central console, the transponder 
transmits any alarm and trouble 
conditions that occurred during the 
communications loss, and control of the 
horns, LED’s, strobes, and sirens 
reverts to the central console. 
This approach to managing a 
communications loss assures that alarm 
events can not go undetected even if 
the central console is out of operation 
temporarily. 
AC Loss 
The transponder senses when it loses AC 
power and reports the condition to the 
central console. After a few seconds 
delay, the central console, displays a 
pop-up alert and records the condition 
in the audit file. See Section 3.3.10  
Transponder Current Status 
Screen.
 
Low Battery 
Periodically during normal operation, 
the transponder tests its battery. If 
the test fails, it immediately reports 
the condition to the central console. 
After a few seconds delay, the central 
console displays a pop-up alert and the 
condition is recorded in the audit 
file.