Using Alarms

In order to use alarm display for your application, you need to set up alarm processing first, and then define an alarm block. This chapter describes how to set up alarm processing and the alarm block. It also describes how to configure the alarm display to show alarm history, alarm count, active alarm and alarm marquee.

To use an alarm in your application, please follow the procedure as below:

1. Setting up alarm processing
   Described in Section 12.2.

2. Creating and configuring discrete alarm blocks or analog alarm blocks
   Described in Section 12.4 and Section 12.5.

3. Creating and configuring alarm displays
   Described in Section 12.6.

You can use the command flag setting in the command block or function button to request the panel to clear the alarm history or clear the alarm count.

To know how to set up the command flag in the command block, please see Section 3.6 Command Block and Status Words. To know how to define a function button, please see Section 5.4.1 Basic Operations on function buttons.