Annunciation type?

[Jim Zahn]

In the manual there is reference to the type of annunciation or condition that needs to be programmed in the annunciator when a specific radio zone goes into alarm, ie: supervisory, alarm, trouble, is this correct and why is this necessary, the central station is getting the signal anyway? Also will the annunciator remind the user of an alarm, trouble or supervisory that has been silenced but not reset.

One last one for now Joe, why have those status LEDs if there is a LCD display? 

[Joe Lucia]

The Central Station will always receive an ALARM (contact id 140) when a zone is shorted.  The Central Station will convert that Alarm Event to whatever event is necessary based on what the installer connected to that zone.  If the installer connected a Valve Tamper switch to the zone, then when the zone goes into Alarm (short) we don't necessarily want to generate a local ALARM sound, but instead would like to generate a Supervisory sound, so you would program that zone to a Supervisory sound on the Annunciator instead of the default Alarm sound.  Of course on the Central Station end you would define that 140 event on that zone as a supervisory event and labeled as Valve Tamper.