Powerware Plus 80 - Summary Alarm Contacts

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If you have a battery cabinet with a circuit breaker and a nonally closed auxiliary switch,
pin 5 can alert you if the breaker opens. If you have an external battery disconnect
breaker, you can have pin 5 alert you if the breaker opens.
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Regardless of how you assign the building afanns. they display as Building Alarm 1,
Building Alarm 2. and Building Alarm 3 on the LCD screen of the Monitor Panel. You
should use fwisted pair wires for each alarm input and common.
Summary alarm contacts
Two summary afarrn contacts are provided as a standard feature on the UPS. The alarm
contacts (one notice and one alarm) are located inside the UPS on the customer interface
panel (see Figure 19).
lB2
NOTICE NC
100
NOTICE NO
11 0
COMMON
12 0
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ALARM NC
130
ALARM NO
140
COMMON
150
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Flgure 19. Summary Alarm Contacb~
You can specify that each contact should be either normally closed (NC) or nonalfy open
(NO). If the state of the confact changes from me state you specify as normaf, an alarm is
issued.
You can connect these contacts to equipment at your facilii (such as a light or an
alarm belo to let you know when an afarm is actfve on the UPS. This feature is ussful if me
UPS is located in a remote area where me UPS afarrn horn may not be heard immediately.
You can afso use mesa wntacts to connect me UPS to equipmenf you want to monitor.
me UPS will then alert you tithe connected equipment enunciates an alarm condition.
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