Instruction manual

PROGRAMMING

VSI-Pro VIDEO SERIAL INTERFACE

5.8 ALARM OUTPUTS

To access alarm output, press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “ALARM OUTPUTS” and press “Set”.

The following sub-menu will appear:

EXCEPTION REPORT MENU CONTINUED

OUTPUT

Choices: ON, OFF

This is global output to send data to the serial printer. When “ON” is selected all the data will be send to the serial printer

regardless of what setting of out put has selected in the individual output in set exception menu. When “OFF” is selected

only those exception will send to the serial printer whose out put is “ON” under set exceptions menu for individual

exceptions. To turn output “ON” or “OFF”, press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “OUTPUT” and press

“Set”. Press the “Up” or “Down” button to cycle through the values and press “Set” when the desired value is displayed.

TIME STAMP

Choices: ON, OFF

If TIME STAMP is selected “ON” then printer will print the exception with time stamp flag, otherwise just print the

Exception. To turn TIME STAMP “ON” or “OFF”, press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “TIME STAMP” and

press “Set”. Press the “Up” or “Down” button to cycle through the values and press “Set” when the desired value is

displayed.

EXIT

Press the “Up” or “Down” button to move the cursor to “Set” to return to the previous menu.

Figure 78: ALARM OUTPUTS Sub-Menu

The ALARM OUTPUTS menu controls not only the formatting of the external alarms but also the formatting of

the on-screen flags assigned to individual exceptions.

ALARM NO.

Choices: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

The VSI-Pro allows you up to 16 alarms that may be used with any of the user programmed exceptions. However there

are only 2 hardwired alarm outputs and these correspond to Alarm 1 & 2 only. The other 14 alarms can be used to send

trigger text, serial data out or flash the screen. To select the Alarm Number that you want to program, press the “Up” or

“Down” button to move the cursor to “ALARM NO.” and press “Set”. The cursor will start flashing. Press the “Up” or

“Down” button to cycle through the values and press “Set” when the desired value is displayed.

ALARM NO. 1

ALARM SYNC ON

ALARM TRIGGER EX 1

NORMAL STATE NO

ALARM DURATION 20

FLAG TYPE FLASH *

FLAG DURATION 000

TRIGGERED TEXT

ALARM TYPE DWELL

EXIT