[Hai-users] Easy Question

[Doug Newton]

I'm a bit of a rookie (and certainly a non-professional w/r/t these systems)....just a user.  I have the system's AC Power Out feature call my mobile phone to warn me.  If I recall correctly, it has done so twice in the past 6 years since installation.  It seems to do that only if the power is out for a certain amount of time.  I'm not sure what that certain amount of time is, but it's not short durations.  HAI should know, or it should be easy to test..., program AC Power out to call a specific phone #, unplug the power xfmr and rely on battery power...it will call you.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roger Sampson 
  To: 'Doug Ringler' ; hai-users at tssi.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:50 PM
  Subject: RE: [Hai-users] Easy Question


  Doug,

  I do not have the absolute answer to your question, however I can speculate that an AC power outage may not dial out.  At least here in the Dallas area, most outages are short in duration, seconds and minutes as opposed to hours.  Could be a burden to a central station.  I do not know what the typical subscriber distribution is for central stations, but I can imagine their call volumes, if there is a wide spread outage.  Of course rural outages are a different issue, and seems like there should be an option to report or not. 

   

  From: hai-users-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:hai-users-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Doug Ringler
  Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:03 PM
  To: hai-users at tssi.com
  Subject: [Hai-users] Easy Question

   

  Hopefully an easy question and its been a little quiet anyway,

   

  I usually wire up a zone on the OmniPro II for AC power by sensor relays for power from a generator or the AC from the street.  And thus, the Omni will report open or close from that zone to the central station.   But in one installation, I just left the AC Power Sensor within the Omni to detect an AC Power Failure (no generator), thinking that it would report (call out) upon an AC Power Failure.  But no call to the central station upon loss of AC.  Is this a setting somewhere for calls upon AC Power Failure that I am missing?  I can't get the Omni to report an AC Power Failure in this installation.

   

  Thanks!

   

  Doug Ringler



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