User manual GE SECURITY RANGER 8600 REV D

[. . . ] Just take a little time to review the user material and familiarize yourself with the features and functions of your security system. These basic steps will help make learning and using your system more enjoyable: Step 1 Watch your Owner's Video. It's a good idea for your family, neighbors, or others who will use the system to also watch this easy-to- follow instructional video. Have your installer demonstrate how to use your security system and then watch as you practice using the system. [. . . ] Listen for the messages described in the procedures after each entry. Calling Your System from a Remote Phone With Answering Machine or Voice Mail Ring/Pause/Ring Answer--If you have an answering machine or voice message system, you need to dial your home or business number and let the phone ring twice. Once you're connected to your system, begin all com58 mands by pressing the # key. Use your primary access code to control your system from a remote phone. No Answering Machine or Voice Mail Toll Saver--If you do not have an answering machine or voice message system and you have this feature on, when you call your security system while you're away, it picks up on the eighth ring if there has been an alarm or other trouble has occurred. If your system hasn't picked up on the eighth ring, you can hang up after the ninth ring, knowing there have been no alarms, without completing the call and incurring long distance charges. 12-Ring Method--If you do not have an answering machine or voice message system and the toll saver feature is off, your security system picks up on the twelfth ring. Your system picks up on the eighth ring if there has been an alarm or other trouble has occurred. Once you're connected to your security system, begin all commands by pressing the # key and entering your primary access code. Check with your installer to find out if your toll saver feature is on or off. Receiving a Call While Operating Your System If you receive a phone call while using a phone to operate your security system, you will hear two long beeps for each ring from interior speakers and phones. If you wish to answer the call, simply hang up to disconnect the phone from your security system, and then answer the call as you normally would. If you wish to access your security system after finishing the call, you need to start over from the beginning of the phone operation. 59 60 Touchpad Operations Section 5: Using the Phone for Emergencies Using Panic Alarms: Police, Fire, and Auxiliary 8557104A. DS4 Panic alarms are used to quickly alert the central monitoring station to an emergency in your home. When one is activated, the central monitoring station knows within seconds what your emergency is. Sensor nn bypassed. Phone Operations Note If an alarm sounds, cancel by entering # + your access code + 1. CAUTION If open doors or windows caused the protest beeps and they are left open, they will not be protected. Opening a Door or Window When Protection Is On Before opening a door or window when security protection is already on: Do this Press # + your access code + 6 + the two-digit sensor number. You can now open selected doors and/or windows without setting off an alarm. (Repeating the entry removes the sensor bypass. ) You will hear After 5 seconds, Sensor nn bypassed. Keychain Touchpad Operations Troubleshooting Instant Arming with No Exit/Entry Delay Time Your security system has built-in exit and entry delay times. References 67 To turn on security protection with no entry/exit delay time: Do this · If you are staying in, enter # + your access code + 2 + 4. You will hear Alarm system is on level 2, no delay. Note Changing the protection level will set the sensors back to their normal delay times unless 4 is again pressed after entering # + your access code + new protection level. Turning Security Protection Off OFF Turning security protection off means you are disarming your system. Level 1-Off is also used to cancel most alarms (see "Canceling Accidental Alarms" in section 5). To turn security protection off: Do this · Enter # + your access code + 1. If you enter your home and controlled lights that are normally off are on and/or you hear alarm sirens, an intruder may be inside or another emergency may have occurred. The same may be true if you enter a door with an entry delay and instead of the normal entry delay beeps (two beeps every 2 seconds) you hear faster beeping (three beeps every 2 seconds). The alarm sirens may have "timed-out" and these faster beeps indicate that an alarm occurred. Leave immediately, and call for emergency help from a neighbor's phone. 68 Touchpad Operations Checking Your System Status The status feature allows you to quickly check the operations of your system anytime. [. . . ] These sensors are active even when your system's security protection is turned off (Level 1-Off). Some examples of 24-hour sensors include heat, freeze, smoke, and panic sensors. wireless Some of the devices in your system are "wireless. " They send and receive messages to and from the control panel using radio waves. Wireless Interior Siren (WIS) A siren that plugs into a standard wall outlet. [. . . ]