IDS X-Series Training v2.7 | Global Settings
Location 16: Trouble Display
Location Type: Bitmap
When the alarm system detects any of the trouble conditions that are enabled in the table below, the power
light on the keypad flashes and can be set in location 14, option 2, to beep. To view the trouble condition:
Press and hold the [7] key down until the beep.
When the trouble condition has been corrected, pressing and holding [7] until the beep, and then press the
[#] key to clear the power LED trouble condition. Some troubles will clear themselves, E.g. AC Fail.
This trouble condition monitors the AC that powers the
alarm panel and will register a trouble condition after the
time programmed in location 15. This will only clear when
AC is restored.
R
eporting c
ommunication
fail
trouble
display
This is if the panel tries to communicate and fails to
communicate after trying the number of times in location
47.
Phone
line
trouble
display
A trouble condition will be displayed when the telephone
line goes down.
Siren
tamper
trouble
display
This option looks for a load and when this load goes
missing a trouble is indicated.
Low
battery
detection
trouble
display
The alarm system tests the battery every 30 min. If a
trouble is encountered a condition will be shown.
When there is a short or some sort of trouble that causes
the 12V output to fail.
Engineers
reset
trouble
display
If this option is set in partition options (location 211 to
218) and the alarm triggers, this option will show and the
alarm can only be armed again once the installer code
has been entered.
Box
tamper
trouble
display
If the alarm control box is fitted with a switch that is
connected to the tamper pins on the control board and
enabled in location 14 and the door of the box is opened
a trouble will be displayed.
Peripheral tamper trouble display
If any peripherals tamper has been set then a tamper will cause
this option to be displayed.
485 bus fail
trouble
display
This will display when a device attached to the system
via the bus fails and stops communicating.
P
eripheral low power/ battery
display
If an expander detects low power on the 12V terminal a
trouble condition will be displayed.
When a wireless device’s battery needs to be replaced the
device will send a battery low signal and trigger a trouble if
enabled.
Wireless supervision Monitoring
Each wireless device will check in and if a device does not a
trouble is triggered.
If an unknown signal that can interfere with signals from
wireless devices is detected a trouble will be triggered.
RSSI is signal strength measurement and if lower than 20% a
trouble will be logged.
If a zone is monitored for tamper and then a tamper signal is
detected by the alarm a trouble will be triggered.