American Fibertek Scout SS1 - Manual (Page 15)

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Probe Warnings, Alarms & Polling
Scout Probe: The Scout probe can be order as P-TA for temperature and airflow sensing or as P-
TAH for temperature, airflow, and humidity sensing. When connected and operational the probe’s
LED will indicate one of three states:
Green indicates the probe is properly connected to Scout and powered
Flashing Amber indicates data is being transferred between Scout Probe and Scout. This
data transfer takes place once every 10 seconds
Flashing Red indicates that Scout Probe is powered by has lost communication with
Scout. Immediate action should be taken to correct this.
Alarm Alerts: To sense an alarm or warning condition a probe is polled three times to avoid any
potential for false alarms. As each poll is 10 seconds the total time to confirm if a condition is
valid is 30 seconds. To further avoid false alarms the Master Admin can program an Warning-
Alarm delay which will require the condition be valid for the total programmed time prior to
taking any action.
Scout’s status can be viewed via LED’s located on Scout’s front panel, or via a Graphic User
Interface provided as part of Scout’s web services. As some operators may also want to view
current Scout probe status and not just exceptions, a Sensor Status mode is provided. Using this
mode the front panel probe LED’s will indicate status in the same method as the probe itself.
Actual response will be dependent on your network speed.
P-TA and P-TAH are intelligent probes. The parameters applied to a probe via operator
programming will remain even if the probe is unplugged. If connected to another input on the
same Scout or another input on a different Scout, upon power up the probe’s programming will
automatically be read from Scout.
Scout will automatically sense which type of probe is connected. If a P-TA probe is connected
Scout will not display any programming for Humidity functions.