GE Security Vigilant VS1 - Starting and Stopping a Walk Test

Chapter 5: Diagnostics, maintenance, and testing
186 Vigilant VS1 and VS2 Technical Reference Manual
Starting and stopping a walk test
A walk test lets you test individual zones or devices without having to create an
actual alarm condition. You can conduct a walk test in silent or audible mode. In
silent mode, the audible devices (NACs) do not sound.
Zones should be placed in walk test one at a time. This allows the balance of the
system to remain in service. When a device is activated for test, it remains active
throughout the test and does not restore until walk test is ended. When walk test is
ended, all of the tested devices restore.
Note: Walk test will not operate with an active alarm or supervisory event at the
panel.
When you enter walk test mode:
• The Test LED flashes for an audible walk test and is steady for a silent walk test.
• Walk Test is displayed on the LCD. Walk Test is replaced with the device activation
message during the period the device is activated while in walk test.
• The panel enters a trouble state. There is no fire protection for the zone in walk
test. If an unselected zone or device goes into alarm or trouble, all programmed
outputs operate as programmed.
Zones and devices behave as follows during walk test.
• For alarm events, the appropriate panel and annunciator LEDs and buzzers turn
on. In the audible (NAC) test mode a four-second pulse sounds for NAC types:
continuous nonsilenceable, continuous silenceable, Genesis nonsilenceable,
Genesis with audible silence only, and Genesis with audible and visible silenceable
on the audible devices. A single 3-3-3 cycle sounds for NAC types: temporal
nonsilenceable, temporal silenceable, coder basic, coder continuous, coder
120spm, and coder temporal on the audible devices.
• For trouble events, the appropriate LEDs and the buzzers turn on. In the audible
(NAC) test mode a two-second pulse sounds on the audible devices.
• For ground fault events, the appropriate LEDs and the buzzers turn on. In the
audible (NAC) test mode, a two-second pulse sounds on the audible devices.
• All device activations are latched until walk test is ended or the panel is reset.
When walk test is ended, it takes approximately eight seconds for the devices to
restore. If the device being tested is in a zone and does not restore, the zone does
not reset.
• If auxiliary power is resettable, the auxiliary power is interrupted while the zone is
reset.