Re: FCI 7100

["Richard Merriam" <someonw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know that not all of the faults were comm. faults but you could be on to
something here.

There is one cat 5 cable running from the telephone closet to the FACP.
Four of the wires are terminated on a terminal block on the motherboard
which gives them the two phone lines that are required. (other 4 wires are
not used).  In the phone closet the four wires are terminated on a 66 block
which has the two CO lines.  The secondary phone line that also feeds the
fax machine is also terminated (paralleled) on the 66 block with one of the
wire pairs going to the FACP.  I don't know how line seizure could take
place. Should the fax line come from one of the terminals in the FACP and
then go to the fax machine?

Our bldg is unoccupied after hours and we don't get many faxes but I guess
it possible that this could be happening.

The alarm contractor doesn't share with us much information about Telco line
testing or when it happens so I don't know much about that.

Do systems call out at preset times each day and send a code to the
monitoring company that all is ok?  If both lines were disconnected at once
how would they know? Would this be held in memory and when the line(s)
returned would it dial-out and report it?


"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:xFFTe.318$YZ1.1782@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In addition to what the others have said...
>
> Your fire panel should be testing BOTH telco lines at least every 24
hours.
> If one of them fails it should display a comm fail or trouble - it's
> supposed to do that...now if it's sharing the second line with a fax and
> it's not correctly wired for line seizure that may be why you are getting
a
> comm fail.