Hi everyone,
I have a new Silent Knight 5808 addressable system (in my basement, I am not doing any commercial installation nor am I using this system as life safety for my house), and I’m finding it difficult to set NAC sync. The Notification Appliances I am using are SpectrAlert Classics, and when I had an MS-4, I could easily set the NAC output coding to System Sensor Sync. However, the Silent Knight panel seems to only allow setting sync for outputs like “Fire Drill” and “Aux Output 1 + 2.” The general alarm outputs seem to only allow setting to either ANSI or Constant or a custom coded output. Would the simplest solution be to program all alarm outputs as constant and use a System Sensor sync module? Or is there a specific way through the Software Suite or panel menus to set the general alarm output pattern to System Sensor Sync? I thought I’d ask before I went and got a System Sensor MDL.
Thanks.
The settings for how outputs respond to zones are set with numbers on a certain screen in zone settings, You set for example: The smoke detectors in zone one will make output group 3 do cadence #20. Check the software revision on your panel, because only panels with rev. 10 or higher can do system sensor sync, and all cadence options (including sync protocols) are represented in programming with two digit numbers. Programming these panels is really complicated.
Actually I am aware of the zone mapping and output policies in the software suite. I can’t recall exactly how it’s laid out since it’s not directly in front of me, but I distinctly recall seeing a zone output setting greyed out and when I tried to select “System Sensor Sync” it threw an error about not being able to code the Alarm group outputs and having to do it from the zone tab, and then on trying to set the zone output in the other tab, I would see every coding/output option available except for the proprietary (Wheelock, System Sensor, AMESCO, Faraday, etc) sync options. Tomorrow I’ll have a closer look at the software suite and try to get a more detailed description.
Boy, you’re right that programming these things are super complicated. Looks like the only way to select sync is by editing group properties in the programming menu and manually changing the output cadence of every alarm condition to preset 19, which is System Sensor Sync. Seems like that did the job.