Rotating "C" on Keypad

[cipherwar]

I have hopefully two easy questions. I noticed that occasionally I have a rotating "C" on my keypad displays. I initially thought that it indicated that the panel was communicating to the central station but it seems to happen when there should be no communication. Does anyone know what this indicates.

Also, I have had a few instances of "Low Battery" warning on the keypads for remote sensors. Does anyone know how to clear these types of warnings on the keypad? I tried, "*" and "***". Neither worked.

Thanks

 

[Del91574]

The rotating symbol you are referencing is the panel showing that it is communicating via the 485 bus. Basically a data widget.

Have you corrected the conditions that are causing the low batteries? It has been my understanding (I've always used GE long life sensors/batteries wherever I've had to use RF) that once the condition is corrected that the transmitter would send the appropriate restoral, otherwise if you didn't get it, faulting and restoring the transmitter would force the transmitter to send.

I might be more used to Honeywell and the precursor to Elk....Moose.

 

[Photon]

On 13 April 2006 Spanky said:

The icon in the upper left corner of the LCD display is a Clock Icon. When you have entered a valid user code the icon will be displayed for 60 seconds. In that time you can single digit arm or enter user menus from 6 to 8 without an additional user code. Each press of a key will extend the time. Pressing the "*" key will cancel the user code timer and the icon will disappear.

If you have entered the installer code, the Clock Icon will display for about 4 and 1/2 minutes. Pressing the "*" key 3 times will cancel the installer code timer and send the "Local Programming End" signal to the central station if the communicator is programmed to transmit that signal. "Local Programming Begin" and "Local Programming End" is used by some central stations and installation companies to indicate that the M1 Control is in the "Test Mode" so the central station can ignore any signals during the test mode. It is also used to punch installers in and out of a job site.

 

[Del91574]

See what happens if you work for Elk

Sounds very familiar to the old Moose panels. Guess that'll happen if you build on the same platform and bring the same engineers around.

 

[cipherwar]

I don't think that I am referring to the "clock" icon. This seems to happen randomly. I could be walking past the keypad in the middle of the day with no interaction happening whatsoever on the panel and I occasionally see the animated rotating C icon. The RS485 comm seems to make more sense. But who know. I am going to call Elk Tech support and see what they say...will post answer.

 

[tmbrown97]

sounds like you're referring to the rotating C that's normally only displayed when the controller is booting up? Sounds like databus to me - have you checked for databus errors?

 

[Spanky]

The upper left digit on the M1KP or M1KP2 keypad is a valid code entered timer icon. :hesaid: When a user code has been entered, the timer icon will display. Also an installer code will make the icon display for about 4 minutes. As stated above, as long as the icon is displayed you do not have to re-enter the code.


Little known fact: If you program the installer code as 99999, you do not have to re-enter the installer code to get into the installer menus. This is handy for initial setup where you are going in and out of the installer menu multiple times.

 

[Del91574]

I would've thought that Wade would've told the engineers to make it 96321