[SBE] Burk ARC-16 Question

[Kent Kramer]

I think from memory there are 10 dial out locations in the Burk and that if
you fill all the locations with the numbers you want it will continue to
dial out until the alarm is acknowledged. It's been awhile since I've had to
program a Burk so it may have changed slightly or my recollection may be
fuzzy.good luck.

 

Kent Kramer

Director of Engineering

Reach Media

Dallas, TX

Home of "The Tom Joyner Morning Show"

 

From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Curt
Yengst
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:10 PM
To: sbe at sbe.org
Subject: [SBE] Burk ARC-16 Question

 

I've got a bit of a dilema regarding our Burk ARC-16 remote control system,
and before I set about possibly re-inventing the wheel, I figured I'd put it
up here to see if anyone else had "been there, done that, got the t-shirt."

 

Our Burk is set to call the CE whenever the transfer switch for our
generator switches, so he knows that the site is now running on generator
power.  Well, this past weekend we had a power failure at the site.  The
backup power system did exactly what it was supposed to do, except the Burk
never called him to tell him.  So this morning he finds out that the
generator was basically running all weekend!

 

Is there a somewhat simple way to get the Burk to call out on an alarm more
than once?  In this case, even if it actually called him and he missed the
call, it wouldn't have called him back.  I guess the simplest solution would
be to add additional numbers to the callout list, but is there a way to
perhaps have the unit call on an hourly or bi-hourly basis until the alarm
condition no longer exists?

 

What other failsafes can you suggest?

 

 

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