Siemens FC18 User Manual

Operating Manual of FC18 Controller
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¹ System trouble: On when system hardware/software is faulty.
¹ Trouble: On when trouble occurs; Off when trouble is resolved.
¹ Activation: On when some equipment (such as output module or main board output port) is activated; Off when
activation signal disappears and “reset” is pressed.
¹ Confirmation: On when controller receives confirmation signal; Off when the signal disappears.
¹ NAC trouble: On when trouble occurs on NAC line; Off when trouble disappears.
¹ Main Power: On when main power supply is working; Off when the AC supply is disconnected.
¹ Battery: On when backup batteries are working; Off when the Main power are working and the backup batteries
are not working.
¹ Disable: On when some equipment is disable; Off when no equipment is disable; Flashing when system is in
startup status.
¹ Test: On when some equipment is at test/walk-test mode; Off when no equipment is being tested.
¹ NAC disable: On when NAC line is disable; Off when it’s enable.
¹ Auto: Only level 2&3 users can access. At auto mode all interlocking equipments can be activated automatically
by controller according to interlocking expressions. Manual operations have high priority at auto mode.
¹ Manual: Only level 2&3 can access. At manual mode all interlocking equipments can only be activated manually.
¹ Acknowledge/Silence: Only level 2&3 users can access. Press “Acknowledge/Silence” to turn off the buzzer
(except when battery is under voltage).
- Flashing when there are events and “Acknowledge/Silence” is not pressed. OR when there are
events and “Acknowledge/Silence” is pressed while new event occurs.
- Off when there are events and “Acknowledge/Silence” is pressed, OR when there are no events.
Sound elimination in a network,
- Press “Acknowledge/Silence” on master controller: internal sounder will turn off for both master and
slaves, also indicator will turn off.
- Press “Acknowledge/Silence” on slaves controller: internal sounder will turn off slave itself, indicator
will turn off, but master remains unaffected.
¹ NAC activation: Only level 2&3 users can access. When fire is detected, NAC is activated and the LED is on.
Press “NAC activation” to deactivate NAC devices and the LED is off. Press it again, NAC device is
activated again and the LED is on. So on and so forth.
- “NAC activation” is used to activate/deactivate NAC devices.
- NAC device can be disabled through the menu.
- NAC device can not be activated neither the alarm nor the key when NAC device is disable.
- When NAC device is activated, it can be disable. But when it is enable again, its status will be normal
(no matter there is fire alarm or not).
- The LED status is consistent with NAC device status (no matter there is fire alarm or not). That
means when NAC device is activated, the LED is on; when NAC device is deactivated, the LED is
off.
¹ Reset: Only level 2&3 users can access. It is used to reset the system to normal status. Any event can be reset
by pressing this key no matter it’s silence or not. It’s different to reset fire alarm events from resetting
other events in a network.
- Non-fire alarm events:
If master is reset, events in both master and salves are reset.
If a slave is reset, events in the slave are reset, and the same events in master are also reset.
- Fire alarm event:
If master is reset, events in both master and salves are reset.
If a slave is reset, events in the slave are reset while the same events in master will not reset

Siemens FC18 Specifications

General

Brand	Siemens
Model	FC18
Category	Controller
Language	English