User manual

CFP USER MANUAL • Approved Document No. DFU7001010 Rev 1 • Page 8 of 20

FP 2/4/8 ZONE CONVENTIONAL FIRE ALARM PANEL

FIRE CONDITIONS

When the fire alarm panel receives an alarm trigger from a detector or manual call point located in a zone

that is not already in a fire state, it will:

• Flash the general fire and appropriate fire zone light(s) on the panel front.

• Activate its internal sounder.

• Start the alarm sounders and outputs including, if enabled, the remote and auxiliary outputs

(provided there are no delays applicable to the zone which is in alarm - CFP model dependent, see page 3).

At this point the building’s fire management plan should be executed!

Important Note: Zones which have been disabled cannot be triggered into an alarm condition

(see page 10 for further information on disablements).

Silencing the alarm sounders

• The alarm sounders may be silenced by putting the panel into access level two and pressing the

Silence/Activate Sounders button.

The alarm sounders and the panel’s internal sounder will stop sounding and the light(s) for the zone(s)

in alarm and the general fire light will be lit steady. The remote output will turn off, but the auxiliary

output will stay on.

New zone in alarm

Should a new zone be triggered into alarm whilst the alarm sounders are silenced, the panel will:

• Automatically reactivate the alarm sounders.

• Flash the general fire light and appropriate fire zone light(s) for any new zone(s) in alarm.

• Keep the light(s) for the previous zone(s) in fire lit steady.

Manually activating the alarm sounders (i.e. to evacuate the building)

• Momentarily pressing the Silence/Activate Sounders button when the panel is in access level two

(see page 6) will cause the alarm sounders to sound. Note: The panel’s remote and auxiliary fire outputs

will not

be triggered when the building is manually evacuated in this way.

Pressing the Silence/Activate Sounders button again will silence the alarm sounders.

Note: If the sounders have been disabled, pressing the Silence/Activate Sounders button will have no

effect.

Resetting the panel

• After the cause of the alarm has been investigated and cleared and the alarm sounders have been

silenced, the panel can be reset by pressing the Control Panel Reset button.

The panel will give a double beep to indicate the reset process has started and, after a few seconds, the

zone fire and general fire lights will go out to indicate the process is complete. If there are still alarm

triggers on any zone the panel will go back into alarm as before.

Fire Zone Lights

General Fire Light

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Fire Zones