Chapter 4: Supplementary applications
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Using the paging microphone
The basic tasks in responding to an emergency event are:
1. Use the All Call button to announce the arrival of the fire department, making any necessary announcements.
2. Use the Page To Evac button to reinforce the evacuation of the occupants in areas receiving the evacuation
signal.
3. Use the Page To Alert button to notify the areas not in immediate danger to prepare to evacuate, or that
evacuating people may enter their safe area.
4. Use the All Call Minus button to make announcements to areas of the facility not receiving the EVAC or Alert
signals, as required. Stairwells are typical areas to use the All Call Minus page function.
Note: If the site is equipped with a remote paging microphone, it may be used to issue pages throughout the
facility. A remote microphone page is automatically overridden by any pages issued by the local microphone in
the VM-PMI.
To make an announcement using the local paging microphone:
1. Select the areas to receive the page by pressing the appropriate page function button(s). The button’s integral
LED will be on steady when the system is ready to receive the page.
2. Press the PTT button on the microphone. The Ready to Page LED will flash while the preannouncement tone
is sounding.
3. Begin the announcement once the Ready to Page LED is on steady. Adjust your voice level so that the
Paging Volume LED only flickers occasionally.
4. When you are finished making your announcement, release the PTT button, and then press the page function
button again to cancel the page and return the system to its original condition.
Note: The system automatically cancels the page and returns to its original condition after a short delay, if you do
not cancel the page manually.
Using the firefighters telephone
The VM-MFK Master Firefighters telephone provides two-way communication between firefighters in the building
and the Fire Command Center. You can also usethetelephonehandsetasthepagingmicrophone.
To answer an incoming call:
1. Pick up the telephone handset.
2. Press the Buzzer Silence button.
3. Press the destination button. For example, “Floor 1 Phone.”
Remote annunciation
R-Series and K-R-Series remote annunciators communicate with the VM-1 control panel over the RS-485 riser.
They provide common control switches, system status indicators, zone event messages, and zone status
indicators at remote locations throughout the protected premises. The VM-1 life safety system compatible R-
Series and K-R-Series remote annunciator models are shown in Figure 17 on page 68 and described in Table 24.
See the R-Series Remote Annunciators and Expanders Installation and Operation Guide (P/N 3100969-EN) or K-
R-Series Remote Annunciators and Expanders Installation and Operation Guide (P/N 3102382-EN) for
specifications.
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