Vigilant MX1-Au User manual

MX1-Au FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
Service Manual
Document Number: LT0440
Issue 1.32
7 December 2017
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Quick Reference Index
“How Do I”:
Section
Title/Description
Check that all loop devices are communicating correctly?
LT0439
Any points showing as
Device Fail in the LCD
Faults Recall.
LT0439
Use Devices command
in MX Loop Status
screen to scan for
devices present on each
loop.
6.8.9
DP Command
(Diagnostic Poll)
Check that a particular device is communicating correctly?
LT0439
Is the point’s Status
Recall on the LCD
showing Device Fail?
6.8.3
“Selecting Points for
Monitoring and Display”
- Px or SPx command
Replace faulty MX device(s) with new ones?
LT0439
Use OneAtTme or
Multiple options under
AUTOADD command to
replace 1 or multiple MX
devices at a time.
Change the address of a device on the analogue loop?
6.8.10
CA Command (Change
Address)
Find foreign (unprogrammed) devices on the analogue loop?
LT0439
Use Devices command
in each MX Loop Status
Screen to scan for FRGN
devices on that Loop.
Review the History for
foreign point events.
6.8.9
DP Command
(Diagnostic Poll)
Find the address and type of any duplicate devices (that is, two or
more devices with the same address) on the analogue loop?
LT0439
Use Devices command
in each MX Loop Status
screen to scan for DUP
devices on that loop.
6.8.9
DP Command
(Diagnostic Poll)
Find the position of a break on the analogue loop?
LT0439
Use Devices command
in MX Loop Status
screen to scan for which
MX devices are found on
Left and Right sections
of the Loop. Use wiring
diagram to identify where
break is.
6.8.9
DP Command
(Diagnostic Poll)

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Know what is the normal range of current value for a new device
6.8.5
Expected Analogue
Values
List all of the addressable devices present on a loop?
6.8.9
DP Command
(Diagnostic Poll)
Log analogue values (CV, TV, HH, HL) from analogue loop
devices to a file and import to a spreadsheet for sorting by TV or
HH?
6.8.8
Logging Analogue Values
to a File
Turn on (and off) the LED of a device at a particular address?
3.3.2
Confirming the Address
of Detectors
Update Controller, LCD/Keyboard or MX Loop Card software?
5
Upgrading Software
Upload/download configuration datafiles?
4
Changing the
Configuration
How do I determine the sensitivity of a detector?
LT0439
Recall the device setting
on the LCD.
3.2.7
Detector Sensitivity Test
(AS 1851 Item 3.8)
How do I carry out the 5-yearly sensitivity test?
3.2.7
Detector Sensitivity Test
(AS 1851 Item 3.8)
How do I find out what zone a point maps to?
3.3.2
3.3.3
Confirming the Address
of Detectors
Ascertaining the Mapping
of Points and Zones
View loop communication error rates?
6.8.7.2
EC (Loop Comms Error
Count) Diagnostic Poll)
Know a MX detector’s CO cell has expired?
3.5.5
6.7.12
CO Date Expiry Check
CO Service Check
Report Command
Know how MX device substitution works?
3.6
MX Device Substitution
Check that a AS1668/DSS fan control is communicating
correctly?
LT0587
7.13.1
Confirming the board
address
7.13
Confirming the local
connection
LT0439 = Refer to the MX1-Au Operator Manual (LT0439).

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Table of Contents
1 OVERVIEW.....................................................................................................1-1
1.1 IN THIS SECTION............................................................................................................. 1-2
1.2 ABOUT MX1 ..................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.3 ABOUT THIS MANUAL - INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE .............................................. 1-2
1.4 ISO TERMS COMPARED................................................................................................. 1-3
1.5 SMARTCONFIG................................................................................................................ 1-3
1.6 TERMINOLOGY................................................................................................................ 1-3
1.7 CAUTIONS........................................................................................................................ 1-3
1.8 LAPTOPS, COMPUTERS & SERIAL PORTS................................................................. 1-4
2 SYSTEM STRUCTURE ..................................................................................2-1
2.1 IN THIS SECTION............................................................................................................. 2-2
2.2 SYSTEM STRUCTURE - OVERVIEW.............................................................................. 2-2
2.3 MX LOOP CARD .............................................................................................................. 2-3
2.4 AS1668 CONTROL PCB (DSS MODULES).................................................................... 2-3
2.5 INTERNAL CONTROLS................................................................................................... 2-3
2.6 SYSTEM OPERATION ..................................................................................................... 2-4
2.7 SID..................................................................................................................................... 2-5
2.8 POINTS............................................................................................................................. 2-5
2.8.1 Points ........................................................................................................................ 2-5
2.8.2 Point Numbering........................................................................................................ 2-5
2.8.3 Addressable Detectors and Modules........................................................................ 2-6
2.8.4 Point Values.............................................................................................................. 2-6
2.8.5 Point States............................................................................................................... 2-6
2.9 ZONES.............................................................................................................................. 2-7
2.9.1 General Specifications .............................................................................................. 2-7
2.9.2 Mapping Points to Zones .......................................................................................... 2-7
2.9.3 Zone States............................................................................................................... 2-8
2.9.4 Zone Groups ............................................................................................................. 2-8
2.10 SYSTEM PROCESSING................................................................................................... 2-8
2.11 ALARM CONFIRMATION ................................................................................................ 2-9
2.11.1 Alarm Verification Facility (AVF) for Conventional Detectors ................................. 2-10
2.11.2 Algorithms for Analogue Addressable Detectors.................................................... 2-10
2.11.3 Alarm Acknowledgement Facility (AAF).................................................................. 2-11
2.11.4 Alarm Investigation Facility (AIF) ............................................................................ 2-11
2.11.5 Alarm Delay Facility (ADF)...................................................................................... 2-12