Twinflex V3 Control Panel Engineering and Commissioning Manual
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Silence the Alarms (all panels)
1. Press ‘SILENCE ALARMS’
(button 1)
The alarm sounders should silence, the buzzer and
the fire indication lights should remain and the
‘ALARMS SILENCED’ light should come on.
Reset the System (all panels)
1. Press ‘RESET SYSTEM’
(button 2)
NOTE: Alarms must be silenced
before a reset can be
performed.
The buzzer and the fire indication lights should
switch off.
However, if any Manual Call Points are still
activated or any detectors are still in alarm due to
continued presence of smoke or heat, then the
system will re-activate into the fire condition again.
These will need to be cleared before the system
may be reset.
Sound the Alarms (all panels)
1. Press ‘SOUND ALARMS’
(button 3)
The alarm sounders will activate. The buzzer and
the fire indication lights will also switch on
Silence Buzzer (all panels)
1. Press ‘SILENCE BUZZER’
(button 4)
The fault buzzer will be silenced and the ‘Buzzer
Silenced LED will light. The ‘Buzzer Silenced’ LED
will extinguish when the faults are cleared, and the
buzzer will start again only if another fault
condition occurs.
Test Mode (all panels)
The ‘Test Zone’ function allows the selection of a single detection zone to operate in a ‘one-man walk test
mode’. On triggering a device the device LED and the sounders operate, and control panel enters the fire
state as normal. After approximately 5 seconds the system will reset, and another may be tested.
1. Press ‘TEST ZONE’
(button 5)
A continuous buzzer tone will start
2. Press the button corresponding
to the zone to be selected, ie, 3
for zone 3
The continuous buzzer tone will change to an
intermittent tone if a zone has been selected for
test, or it will stop if the zone has been de-selected
from test.
The ‘Test’ LED and the relevant zone ‘Test’ LED
will light during test
Repeating the above sequence will reverse the
previous option, i.e., ‘on test’ to ‘off test’.