Fire alarm system (if installed) – Garmin FA168CPS User Manual

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Fire Alarm System (If Installed)

THIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY TO RESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS

General

Your fire alarm system (if installed) is on 24 hours a day, for
continuous protection. In the event of an emergency, the strategically
located smoke and heat detectors will sound their alarms and
automatically send signals to your system, triggering a loud,
interrupted pulsed sound* from all keypads and any external
sounders. A FIRE message will appear at your keypad and remain on
until you silence the alarm (see below for silencing fire alarms).

Temporal pulse sounding is produced for Fire alarms, as follows:

3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause. . . , repeated.

TYPICAL FIRE EMERGENCY DISPLAYS

F I R E 0 1 M A S T E R

B E D R O O M

ALARM

FIRE

ALPHA DISPLAY KEYPAD

FIXED-WORD KEYPAD

Silencing

Fire Alarms and

Clearing Memory

of Alarm

1. You can silence the alarm at any time by pressing the OFF key (the

security code is not needed to silence fire alarms). To clear the
display, enter your code and press the OFF key again (to clear
Memory of Alarm).

2. If the keypad's FIRE display does not clear after the second OFF

sequence, smoke detectors may still be responding to smoke or heat
producing objects in their vicinity. Investigate, and should this be
the case, eliminate the source of heat or smoke.

3. If this does not remedy the problem, there may still be smoke in the

detector. Clear it by fanning the detector for about 30 seconds.

When the problem has been corrected, clear the display by
entering your code and pressing the OFF key.

Smoke Detector

Reset

Depending on the type of smoke detectors in your system, it may be
necessary to "reset" the smoke detectors after a fire alarm has been
turned off. Check with your installer. This "reset" is accomplished at a
keypad, as follows:

Enter Security Code*, then press the [1] key (* except “arm only” user).

NOTE: During smoke detector reset, “FAULT xx” appears (about six
seconds) and should disappear if the detector is clear.