Programming fast groups for sounder bases – Edwards Signaling eFSA250 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Front panel programming

E-FSA64 and E-FSA250 Technical Reference Manual

To set the in-suite signal silence elapse timer:

1. Press the Menu button and choose Programming.
2. Choose Panel Operation and enter the level 2

password.

3. For the Suite Sig Sil option, enter a value from 1 to

10 minutes (The default is 10). To disable in-suite

signal silence, set this option to Off.
This is a global option that sets the shutdown

period during which “in suite” evacuation signals

outside the alarm zone remain silenced.

Advanced Program

Panel Operation

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Panel Operation

AC Fail Delay 15<>

Zone Resound On<>

Reset Inhibit 1Min<>

Suite Sig Sil 10<>

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Panel Operation

Evnt Notif ZoneDev<>

AUX Power Reset On<>

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Programming fast groups for sounder bases

For UL/ULC Listing, alarms are required to sound within 10 seconds after a fire is

detected. This can be difficult to achieve in large systems with hundreds of

sounders, unless the sounders are properly grouped.
To address this requirement, Edwards Signaling eFSA64 and eFSA250 systems

provide 25 high priority correlation groups per loop that can activate all sounders

simultaneously. These are:
• For panels with one loop only, the fast correlation groups are Groups 001 to

025

• For panels with two loops, the fast correlation groups are

Loop 1: groups 001 to 025
Loop 2: groups 001 to 025 or 101 to 125 (user configurable).

In dual loop systems, you can combine devices from loop 1 and 2 in correlation

groups 001 to 025, or you can separate them and use groups 101 to 125 for loop

2. See “Changing loop configuration options” on page 85.
For best performance use the fast correlation groups for bulk activations, such as

entire floors and save the slower correlation groups for small sets of activations

such as individual suites or hotel rooms.

Note:

Be sure the Follow option for devices to be added is None, Alarm, Alarm

and Verify, or Alarm and Prealarm. Be sure the Follow option is not set to Head