WFAM Romteck?

[Firefrog]

Does anyone know what a timer expired alarm is? I have seen them sent to a Romteck WFAM/Firemon pager but even though it seems to generate a repsonse message no response pages are sent? Anyone know what these are?

[Bagyassfirey]

i think its some sort of message to tell techs that there is a problem...i only guessing tho because we had trouble with fixed alarms being off line recently and i noticed these pager messages tied up with them.

[Firefrog]

Here's an example....

PCCY STRL RESPOND FIRE ALARM Mt LOFTY HOUSE, 74 SUMMIT RD, CRAFERS *CFSRES:, 02/01/2010 20:36:57, TIMER EXPIRED ALARM CFS/Romteck WFAM/Firemon

Just curious if people know what "timer expired" means?

[Firey9119]

i would say it has something to do with polling rates,

what i mean is some systems (security systems) have polling rates, set time frames where systems MUST report if not these types of alarms are sent.

also WFAM Romtecks are wireless based on mobile phone network, the old systems used standard phone lines where you would get "line open alarms" which is the same thing, system not reponding.

I think correct me if im wrong

[Darren]

Mr Firey 9119 has it fairly right, its just saying it hasn't been speaking for a certain time, Adelaide fire just ring the prems if its in CFS area and tell them all is not 100%, most of the time it comes back on line.