Comfort Automation/ Security System Forums

Hi,

I\'ve just added two Aico Ei166 mains-powered smoke alarms to my house.  These are interconnected so when one alarms they all alarm.  I currently have one downstairs and one upstairs with the plans to link in more over the coming weeks.  I have ei128R relay modules on both (one for redundancy) and they are connected in series to a zone on my Confort Ultra II.    I\'m using NC type for the zone (Fire NC) and basically all seems to work OK.

However I need it to be a little smarter!

At the moment if I test the detectors via the button on the top of each,  the other alarms sound as required in test mode (via detector interconnect wire) and the comfort panel triggers and I have to enter a code quickly to disable it from full alarm state.

This is sort of OK,  but it would be nice if the Comfort system could be setup so that I just get an announce (or tamper) when pressing the alarm test button and it doesn\'t enter full alarm status until after a set period;  say 10 secs.

Has anyone got something like this working already?  I\'m assuming it\'s a bit of logic and timers etc but would be nice to get a sample from you experienced people.

Regards

Julian

 

 

 

 

 

 

You could change the zone to a normaly closed switch (non-alarm) use a timer delay for 10 seconds to activate an alarm, but that may cause the report to lose the zone information as the alarm is not directly triggered. I dont recommend this for a smoke alarm though, seems safer to leave the alarm alone