Kidde FX-64 - Conducting a Lamp Test; Starting and Stopping a Walk Test

Chapter 5: Diagnostics, maintenance, and testing
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Conducting a lamp test
A lamp test lights all of the LEDs on the panel and the LED annunciator and tests the LCD so
that you can verify proper operation. LEDs stay on for 15 seconds.
To conduct a lamp test:
1. Press the Lamp Test button on the front panel.
2. Verify that the LCD, all LEDs on the panel, and LED annunciators (if used) work properly.
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. In audible mode, only the panel onboard NACs activate.
Addressable devices configured for use as a NAC are not affected.
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 the walk test is ended. When the walk test is ended, all of the tested
devices restore.
Note: Walk test does not operate when the panel has an active alarm event.
When you enter walk test mode:
• The Test LED is steady for an audible walk test and flashes 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 mode.
• 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.