firelite ms9600

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anyone familir with this panel hopefully can answer this, can i disable
a software zone or only hardware zones?
zone 00 is general alarm and has 20+ relays.
i need to be able to disable a bunch of relays while the sprinkler guys
work but the customer won't go through the steps to disable 38 relays
individually, neither would i, or pull wires off / put jumpers on.
and no,disabling the inputs won't help me in this case.
thanks

 

[Frank Olson]

anyone familir with this panel hopefully can answer this, can i disable
a software zone or only hardware zones?
zone 00 is general alarm and has 20+ relays.
i need to be able to disable a bunch of relays while the sprinkler guys
work but the customer won't go through the steps to disable 38 relays
individually, neither would i, or pull wires off / put jumpers on.
and no,disabling the inputs won't help me in this case.
thanks

If there are sprinkler guys on site, why not simply power down the system
while they're working on it and power it back up after they quit for the
day???

 

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its a hotel and they wont let me, if i could i would just pull the data
loop off.

 

[MikeyB]

A few ideas:

1. Make a second copy of the program with the relays removed. Download
this copy when the sprinkler boys are working. Download the original
program when they are done.

I am pretty certain that even if you could disable a software zone,
disabling 00, the automatic general alarm zone, is not possible.

Mike

 

[Frank Olson]

its a hotel and they wont let me, if i could i would just pull the data
loop off.

In that case, disabling the affected sprinkler zones would be a lot easier
that 38 relays...

 

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well my company says no to getting the utility software.
but i did discover that if i take everything out of zone 00 and create
a different zone 1-95, i can disable everything in one shot
unfortunetly ithe panel disables all, inputs and outputs, so powering
down is the equivilant, but the power led stays lit!
unfortunetly when i enabled the zone back in to service 2 or 3 relays
stay disabled and i have to recycle power. not always the same relays
each time, strange.

 

[MikeyB]

OK,

If you want to disable an output, put a "duumy" output zone in the FIRST
zone postion for each of the outputs. Do not associate any inputs to this
dummy zone. Put your "real" output zone in the second position. Program
your inputs with the "real" zone. When you want to disable outputs, disable
the "dummy" zone. All your inputs will still work and all your outputs will
be disabled. Some panels are slightly different but the concept is the
same. I am pretty sure you can still use zone 00 in the 2nd position for
outputs and they can still be disabled using the above procedure.

Mike

 

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thanks for the idea, i will give it a try.
how's 101??