Hunter-Pro Series & Captain 8 Installation Guide
8. General Topics
8.1 The keypad buttons functionality
Each keypad button is used for entering some letters, digits and other characters; see the
complete list in the next table. The character is determined by the numer of keystrokes, the
same as in land and cellular telephones.
Enable/Disable a parameter
Cancel/Return to previous screen without saving
Previous character/screen
Select/Save/enter next level
8.2 Outputs & Output types
In every intruder alarm system, alarms and faults are responded via outputs. The outputs are
directly triggered when an event occurs.
PIMA came with a new concept, called “Output Types”; these are the zone alarms, zone types
and faults (and potentially any other event), that do trigger the outputs, but are much more
flexible to use, because they are no longer allocated each to a single output. For example,
smoke alarms, that naturally trigger the SMOKE output, can now trigger any output too.
Another example: a Panic zone generates an alarm; “Panic” is both a zone type and an
“Output type”. The Panic output type can be allocated to any PCB output, as well as to a zone
expander's output.
While an “Output Type” can trigger as much as all the outputs, a physical output can be
triggered by no more than one “Output type”.