Specifications

Sicon-8 Technical Manual CircuitWerkes, Inc.
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92 – Alarm reporting menu
The Sicon-8 maintains two alarm queues. In the current firmware versions, the most recent alarms are played back first.
One queue is for current (new) alarms and the second queue is for saved alarms. The queues have 32 entries each and
are FIFO so that, once filled, the oldest alarms are deleted as new ones are added. Alarms from the new queue are
pushed onto the saved queue at the end of a call unless deleted. Alarms that are new include any critical alarm that has
not been acknowledged by a user or any action alarm that has not been acknowledged by a user.
When you log in to your Sicon-8, after it has had an alarm occur, it will immediately put you into the alarm system menu.
It also marks the current alarms as acknowledged once a valid password has been entered and the call has been ended.
Until the call ends, all new alarms remain current, even if marked for deletion (except for 77 and 78 commands that act
instantly). Once erased using 77 or 78, alarms cannot be recovered. Once a call has ended, new alarms are placed on
the saved alarm queue unless they have been marked for deletion or saved via DTMF command or deleted using the 77
or 78 commands.
Alarms that have been moved to the saved stack or that have been deleted will not initiate calls to you. Any alarm that
was new when you unlocked your Sicon-8 will be considered as acknowledged when you disconnect, even if you took no
direct action. This is because, once you hang up, new alarms are all automatically moved off of the new stack and placed
on the saved stack. The final piece to the alarm function is that, after you hang up, the Sicon-8 takes a reference reading.
If an alarm condition exists when it makes that reference check, it will ignore that condition. If the out-of-tolerance
condition later goes into tolerance and then back out again, that will trigger a new alarm, but if the condition simply
continues to exist as it was when you disconnected, the Sicon-8 assumes that you already know about it and so it won't
bother you any more.
Most users will do one of five things with new alarms:
1. Enter your password but do nothing else and hang up the phone. All current alarms will be
automatically moved off of the new stack and on to the saved stack when you hang up. Note that
you must, at least, unlock the Sicon-8 for this to function.
The following can be accomplished from the alarms menu (92):
2. Move the current alarm to the saved queue manually using the 74 command. This removed
the alarm from the current queue so that it is not reviewed when playing new alarms, but the alarm is
stored on the saved queue for review, if desired.
3. Mark the current alarm for deletion, which will happen when you hang up the phone. Similar to
74, 75 simply kills the current alarm at the end of the call. This function and the 74 function above
are used to let you cherry-pick which alarms to save or delete.
Functions 77 and 78 below are global functions that affect all alarms or all alarms in a particular
stack.
4. Use the 77 function to immediately flush all current alarms directly to the saved stack. this keeps
them from being reported as new if you re-check alarms while you are on the phone.