– 41 –)LUH$ODUP6\VWHP ,I,QVWDOOHGTHIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY TO RESIDENTIAL SYSTEMSGeneral Your fire alarm system (if installed) is on 24 hours a day, forcontinuous protection. In the event of an emergency, the strategicallylocated smoke and heat detectors will sound their alarms andautomatically send signals to your system, triggering a loud,interrupted pulsed sound* from the Touchpad(s) and any externalsounders. A FIRE message will appear at your Touchpad and remainon until you silence the alarm (see below for silencing fire alarms).* Temporal pulse sounding is produced for Fire alarms, as follows:3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause–3 pulses–pause. . . , repeated.TYPICAL FIRE EMERGENCY DISPLAYS* - 6 ) 1 % 7 8 ) 6& ) ( 6 3 3 1ALARMFIREACCUSTOM DISPLAY TOUCHPAD ENGLISH DISPLAY TOUCHPADSilencingFire Alarms andClearing Memoryof Alarm1. You can silence the alarm at any time by pressing the OFF key (thesecurity code is not needed to silence fire alarms). To clear thedisplay, enter your code and press the OFF key again (to clearMemory of Alarm).2. If the Touchpad's FIRE display does not clear after the second OFFsequence, smoke detectors may still be responding to smoke or heatproducing objects in their vicinity. Investigate, and should this bethe case, eliminate the source of heat or smoke.3. If this does not remedy the problem, there may still be smoke in thedetector. Clear it by fanning the detector for about 30 seconds.When the problem has been corrected, clear the display byentering your code and pressing the OFF key.Smoke DetectorResetDepending on the type of smoke detectors in your system, it may benecessary to "reset" the smoke detectors after a fire alarm has beenturned off. Check with your installer. This "reset" is accomplished at atouchpad, as follows:Enter User Code*, then press the [1] key (* except “arm only” user).