Specifications

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.

Tower Light Alarm Muting:

EVENT SCHEDULER: (below)

The event scheduler provides access to time related function of the Sicon-8. The Event Scheduler is divided

into two parts. The top portion of the form is the actual clock schedule. Here you can choose between one-shot

events, events with a fixed repeating period (every hour, day, etc.), and events with specific periods and

durations (for instance, do something every day for a month). You can also set an event to re-occur every year.

The bottom portion of the form is where you choose what action, or actions, that you want to take. The line number of the

action(s) must match the event number for the action to occur. There are four possible actions to choose from and you

can set up to seven (7) actions per event. The four possible actions are: Close a Relay, Log Meters, Pause, and Enable or

Disable alarm reporting for a channel. Latching relays can be closed and latched (or opened) if you have enabled that

mode. Actions are written in plain English and can be copied and pasted from grid to grid, making setup quite simple.

Since syntax is important, an actions setup wizard is available to help you by clicking in a grid and using hot key

combination “control w” <CTRL W>. Setting action sequences is discussed in more detail later in this manual.

Two repeating schedules (1 for pre-dawn & 1 for night) can be setup to

disable alarm reporting each morning and enable reporting at night. You would create a repeating event that

mutes the alarm reporting before dawn each day and another repeating event to unmute reporting after dark.

Note:

Your Sicon-8’s event scheduler comes preprogrammed to perform two functions:

1. Event #80 turns on internal logging & begins recording every three hours.

2. Event #81 resets the Internal Web server periodically as a precaution against lockups.

You can move these events to other event locations, if desired, but you should download the existing

event schedule from your Sicon-8 BEFORE creating a new schedule. You can then use the

downloaded data and add your own events to it.

Line 1 is typical of a

daily power change, pattern change

, etc. It is set for a

specific Duration (1 month) and a specific Period (daily) and it repeats endlessly during the

month of April, every year.

Line 2 is an example of a repeating event that occurs every day, forever. This would be

typical where a satellite channel needs to be automatically changed every day at 3pm. To

skip weekends, you would need to create five events with a period of 1 week, rather than 1

day. Each event would start on a different day of the week, but at the same time of day.

Note that the line numbers for events and actions must match. Events from a specific line cannot

trigger actions of a different line number.

Use CTRL-W to activate the action wizard. Each line can have up to 7 action steps, separated by

commas.

Actions that repeat can be highlighted, then copied and pasted from line to line.