Using The Microphone; 1: Microphone Functionality; 2: Custom Evs Event; 3: Fire Page - Honeywell 6820 Manual

Using the Microphone

10.7 Using the Microphone
10.7.1 Microphone Functionality
Each microphone in the system is capable of providing live fire system or EVS paging.
The microphones are housed within the EVS Series panel enclosure and the EVS-LOC/EVSRPU cabinets. A maximum of five microphones
can be installed in the system.
10.7.2 Custom EVS Event
This event is activated by gaining EVS Control at a LOC and using the microphone without any EVS event already active in the Manual
EVS State. In this case, the Mic Triggered EVS Alarm mapping and General EVS Alarm mapping will be activated and stay activated until a
different EVS event is activated at the LOC or the user resets the Emergency Communication System.
10.7.3 Fire Page
A fire page can only occur when:
• Only the fire system is active.
• Both fire and EVS are active and the fire alarm is programmed to be of higher priority than the active EVS alarm.
– If the fire alarm has the highest active priority and EVS is also active, any LOC can do a fire page given LOC device priority rules
are followed. If the user is at the LOC with EVS Control, and the fire page is of higher priority that the EVS event, the LOC will
automatically relinquish EVS Control to do the fire page when the user engages the microphone.
• Only the fire system is active, the user has gained EVS Control and custom EVS event is a lower priority than the fire alarm.
– In this case, if any LOC has EVS Control, the LOC will automatically relinquish control to allow for the fire page.
• If both the fire alarm and EVS are active and the active EVS event is programmed for higher priority than fire alarm, the user must also
gain EVS control.
– In this case a fire page is NOT allowed at all and the LOC must gain EVS control in order to do any live voice.
10.7.4 Emergency Page
An emergency page can occur when:
• Only the emergency system is active and the user has gained EVS Control.
• Both fire and the emergency systems are active and the highest priority active emergency event is programmed to be of higher priority
than the highest priority active fire event and the user has gained EVS Control.
• Only fire system is active, the Emergency LOC Alarm priority is higher than the active fire system event and the user has gained EVS
Control. This will trigger the EVS system and enable mapping for 'Mic Triggered EVS Alarm' and 'General EVS Alarm'.
10.7.5 Paging
If there are no active emergency or fire system events, the microphone at an LOC can be used for paging by following these steps:
1. Push the PTT (push-to-talk) button on the microphone.
2. Use the Select Keys on the LOC to toggle the output areas to page to with the microphone (illuminates the green LEDs). The Ready to
Talk LED will illuminate after an output area has been activated.
3. Speak into the microphone.
4. Release PTT button when finished.

10.8 Recording Custom Messages

The EVS Series EVS-VCM comes with 15 recordable message slots. Message 1-15 can be recorded from: the microphone, Aux Input, or by
using the EVS Message Management utility of HFSS. All messages can be a maximum of one minute.
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READY
ALL CALL
TO TALK
Emergency Voice System Operation
Ready to Talk LED
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