Fire Alarm Installation
Elcon Electric's Fire Alarm Division can install and troubleshoot fire alarm systems.
The following is a simple trouble-shooting "guide" to help with simple issues:
- Determine alarm or trouble condition - Trouble conditions sound only at the fire alarm panel, usually with yellow lights to indicate a particular reason for the trouble (i.e. low batteries, zone disconnect, silence switch in incorrect position).
- Make note of any lights or messages displayed on the LCD screen - This will help tremendously in restoring your alarm system to 100%. Most problems are minor and can be handled over the phone.
- If the power has failed for any reason, your system may have gone to battery back-up power and discharged the batteries - This will cause a trouble conditions while the batteries recharge to normal levels. Once fully charged, the trouble signal will resound, requiring the trouble switch to be moved back to Normal.
- Check to make sure all switches for the alarm panel are in proper positions - If your alarm panel is sounding the trouble indicator and/or showing a yellow general trouble light only, check the Trouble Silence switch. It may be signaling that no true trouble condition exists and the switch simply needs turned back off. Fire code requirements state that the trouble switch must not be in the trouble silence position if no trouble actually exists (this causes the "trouble ringback" signal and is the source of many service calls that are not needed.
- Assume any alarm indication is valid and follow the facility's fire notification procedures. Until an alarm condition is determined a "false alarm," do not silence the alarm notification signals.
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