WaveWare API-8 Alarm Monitoring - Manual (Page 10)

FEATURES
Model API-8/232
Contact Inputs
The API-8/232 has eight contact inputs on board. The contact inputs are user selectable for either dry
contact or wetted voltage (0-48 Volts) outputs. Two jumpers on the board are used to select for either
dry contact or wetted voltage outputs. The inputs are programmable for connection to either normally
open or normally closed output contacts.
Preprogrammed Alerts/Status Updates
The text messages associated with each input are user programmable and can be customized to
communicate the exact nature of the alarm or status change that is being monitored. API-8/232 may be
programmed to generate both an alarm message and /or a reset message. The pager users can receive
notification of an alarm condition when it occurs and they can also be notified that the condition has
been acknowledged or reset when the contact output returns to its normal state.
Full 80 Character Messaging
Each preprogrammed alarm and reset message can be up to 80 characters in length providing a high
degree of detail including an exact description/ location of a specific alarm condition.
Message Directing
The pager or group of pagers to be notified with status changes for each input is user programmable.
Status changes for each input can be directed to a different pager or group of pagers. For example, a
high temperature alarm from a boiler can be sent to maintenance personnel while a panic button alarm
can be directed to a security guard.
Alarm Escalation
API-8/232 provides for repetition of messages to the selected pager user(s). If an alarm condition
remains unacknowledged or is not reset within a user definable period of time (1 to 60 minutes), the
message associated with that alarm condition will be re-paged .
Alarm Repetition
API-8/232 can be programmed to page an alarm condition from one to three times consecutively to
ensure that the pager user(s) received the alarm notification.
Note: Alarm escalation and repetition features apply to ‘ON’ (alarm) condition only.
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