Velocity Operation Manual
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Disablements
To aid commissioning and assist routine maintenance checks, various functions of the Velocity fire alarm system can be disabled. The
Velocity allows disablement of Inputs in a zone, Outputs in an alarm group, individual devices and individual module ports.
Zone Disablement
The following options can be selected when disabling a zone:
Disabled = The input devices in the zone
will not
an alarm, supervisory, or trouble signal.
Enabled The input devices in the zone
will
trigger an alarm, supervisory, or trouble signal.
This might be used if the system requires routine maintenance, and the user needs the rest of the system to continue running, but
doesn’t want spurious false alarms.
The panel will respond in the usual manner to any events in any non-disabled zones. Any number of zones can be disabled, but it is
good practice to only disable one zone at a time.
A zone can be disabled as follows:
Enter the Engineer or User Password, Press the menu
access icon
.
Select the zone icon
(The disabling function is
available to engineer & users).
The panel shows the Zone menu.
To change the disablement options, press the “In” field.
This will display the zone options menu.
Change the Zone mode to ‘Disable’ by pressing on the
selection circle.
The
and
icons can be used to scroll to other
zone numbers. When finished press the exit icon
.
The panel will return to the Zone Explorer menu.
Select more zones to disable, or if finished, press the exit
icon
. The panel will ask if you want to save the
changes.
Press tick
to save the changes, or press
to
discard.
