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6.5.8 Enabling / Disabling Telemetry Alarms
Telemetry alarms can be selectively enabled and disabled by an action sequence. This is particularly useful for
transmitters that operate at multiple power levels. The appropriate alarm can be enabled using the same action
sequence that changes the transmitter power.
Be aware that any alarms that are disabled using these commands will remain disabled until they are enabled using
the corresponding enable command, or until the system restarts. These commands do not have a time limit.
All alarms are enabled at power up. When these command are used, there is the potential for a false alarm if main
system power fails. The next action sequence event that occurs after power is restored enables and disables the
alarms as programmed.
Disable a telemetry alarm
6.5.9 Extending an Action Sequence
A single action sequence can have up to eight instructions. This is satisfactory for most uses. There are rare
instances that require more than eight steps to occur. Action sequences can be chained together in series to address
such situations. Chaining together action sequences comes at the expense of reducing the total number of action
sequences available. Memory is available for eight action sequences. If two are chained together then the system
effectively has only seven action sequences.
A second action sequence is chained to the first by including an instruction at the final position of the first sequence.
The instruction indicates to the system that a chain is to occur and which action sequence is next in the chain. The
instructions are shown in the following table.
Execute action sequence 1 next
Execute action sequence 2 next
Execute action sequence 3 next
Execute action sequence 4 next
Execute action sequence 5 next
Execute action sequence 6 next
Execute action sequence 7 next
Execute action sequence 8 next
An action sequence cannot chain to itself. This would result in an infinite loop.