Installation guide

20 Advisor Master Programming Guide
Area / alarm group assignment
For zones to perform correct actions when active, an area or an alarm group has
to be linked to the zone. Whether an area or alarm group has to be programmed
depends on the zone type (types 6, 31, 34, and 35 require an alarm group).
Area
The zone needs an area to be able to send alarm information to an area and a
central station and to be able to reset when an alarm occurs. Assign the area to
the zone that has to alarm when the zone is activated and the area status (armed
or disarmed) meets the requirement for the zone type.
The function of the zone depends on the zone type selected during
programming.
Common area
Common areas have zones that should only go into alarm when all areas are
armed. E.g. the frontdoor in a building provides an entry to 2 areas, thus the
frontdoor needs to be a common area.
There are two ways to create zones in a common area. The first way is to assign
more then one area to a zone. That way the zone can only go into alarm if all
areas meet the ondition (armed or disarmed). The zone is disarmed if one area is
disarmed. In this option, the longest entry and exit time is used.
The other way to create a common area is to use area linking (see “19-Area
linking”, page 127). Here the common area is an additional area that
automatically arms as soon as the linked areas are armed. The common area
can be disarmed separately and has its own entry and exit times.
Note: At least one area must be assigned to a zone. It is impossible to reset an
alarm on a zone that has no areas assigned.
Alarm group
Alarm groups are assigned to zones that perform alarm control. It is only
available for zone types 6, 31, 34, and 35.
The function of the alarm group depends on the zone type selected during
programming. These zone types are used for key switches etc. to arm/disarm
areas (i.e. causes the zone to act like a user entering an alarm control code).
Note: Before Alarm Groups can be assigned, they have to be programmed in “5-
Alarm groups” (page 50).
Test option
1: 2, Tested in Arm test & Disarmed
Test Type:
Use this record to select the automatic testing procedures of each zone. The
zone testing is done via the Disarm test and the Arm test. However, you can still
manually test zones.