[SBE] Burk ARC-16 Question

[Richard Hardy]

I filled all nine slots.  I still have a pager as a backup to the cell
phone and it takes two slots to call a pager and leave the calling phone
number in the pager.  My call list is 1. cell phone, 2 & 3. pager, 4.
cell phone, 5 & 6. pager, 7. cell phone, 8. home phone, 9. cell phone. 
With this plan I have not missed a call in eight years. Richard Hardy

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Urban, Brian L"
  To: "sbe member discussion mail list"
  Subject: Re: [SBE] Burk ARC-16 Question
  Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:47:50 -0500

  The only way I know of to get the Arc 16 to call until someone
  answers is to fill all the call out number slots.  If there is an
  empty slot, then it just stops trying when it reaches the empty slot.

  --
  Brian Urban
  Chief Operator
  KUT Radio
  The University of Texas at Austin
  TEL 512-471-1085


  On 7/13/09 12:09 PM, "Curt Yengst" <cyengst at star991fm.com> wrote:

    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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