With wardens configured, unalarmed zones receive Alert before the Evacuate signal reaches them (§3.4). The Test button is disabled by default on a real panel and must be enabled for the site (§5.2).
| Zone | State | FIP | MCP | SPKR | WIP | W1 | W2 | W3 |
|---|
A fault sounds the buzzer with a steady tone; an alarm beeps it. Wiring and supply faults clear by themselves once the cause is repaired (§4.2). The watchdog / CRC system fault latches - only Reset clears it.
Restoring the sources leaves the panel indications latched - that is the state in which Reset finally clears them.
Eight programmable keys (§5.5) - the slide-in label beside them names each function.
§5.2, Buttons. “Reset - Green. Resets latched alarms and faults. Clears all zone Alert, Evac and Speech selections. ECS-16 must be in MANUAL and Silence Warning on.”
§5.2, detail. “If Reset is pressed in MANUAL and when Silence Warning is on, all latched alarm and fault indications will be reset and cleared, plus all Zones in the Alert, Evacuate or Speech will be cleared. Any alarm or fault conditions that are still physically present (e.g., fire panel alarm or MCP activated) will remain. These will need to be cleared at their source and then Reset before pressing Auto.”
§5.2, note. “Reset is not operational in AUTO or if Silence Warning is not active.”
| Precondition | Result in this simulator |
|---|---|
| AUTO | Inoperative. Nothing changes; the event log says why. No key beep - §6.1 makes the absence of the beep the operator's cue that a key did not take. |
| MANUAL, Silence Warning off | Inoperative, same as above. |
| MANUAL, Silence Warning on | Cascade stopped; every zone Alert, Evacuate and Speech selection cleared; All Alert / All Evac / All Speech released and their remembered states discarded; latched zone alarms cleared where the source has been restored; the latched watchdog / CRC system fault cleared. |
| Source still present | That zone stays in alarm. Restore it at the fire panel or MCP, then Reset again. The Common Alarm LED and the LCD status follow. |
| Silence Warning after Reset | Press it again to re-enable the loudspeaker and VAD outputs, then Auto. Reset does not release Silence Warning by itself. |
Exit from TEST is a different reset. §5.2: “If Test is pressed while TEST is active, it will turn off TEST and perform a Reset so that any test alarms are reset and all zone's alert, evacuate, speech, manned and cleared states are cleared.” That one additionally clears Manned and Cleared, needs no preconditions, and - because the panel returns to AUTO - any alarm still present “will be treated as new alarms and automatic evacuation will be started”, with the signals now audible in the zones.
Faults other than the watchdog are not latched: §4.2 - “Once the fault is repaired the ECS-16 will automatically clear that fault indication.” Repairing a wiring or supply fault therefore clears it without Reset, which is why REPAIR ALL FAULTS above is the fault-side equivalent of restoring an alarm source.
Switching back to AUTO with an alarm condition still present simply restarts the evacuation, which is why the sources are cleared before Auto is pressed.
OscillatorNode set to type = 'square', driven to the
exact frequencies, pulse widths and periods printed in the ECS-16 Operator's Manual (DOC-01-040, §2.2). The voice lines
use your browser's own SpeechSynthesis engine speaking the manual's default message text verbatim - so the
wording and cadence are authentic while the voice is obviously your device's, not Notifier's. No stock
"buzzer" sample is substituted anywhere.
| Waveform | 520 Hz square wave |
|---|---|
| Pulse | 0.5 s on, 3.5 s silence |
| Bursts | 3 (repeats twice more) → 12 s period |
| Then | alert message |
| Message | “Warning. The fire alarm system has operated, standby for further instructions” |
DOC-01-040 §2.2 (1) ALERT. Where a building has no floor wardens no alert signal is generated automatically on alarm - it can still be selected manually from the keyboard.
| Waveform | 520 Hz square wave |
|---|---|
| Pulse | 3 × (0.5 s on, 0.5 s off) + 1 s further silence = 4 s period, per ISO 8201 |
| Bursts | 4 s period repeated 3× → 12 s |
| Then | voice message in multiples of 4 s to a maximum of 16 s, then 4 s or 8 s silence |
| Message | “Evacuate as directed” spoken twice |
DOC-01-040 §2.2 (2) EVACUATE - the ISO 8201 temporal-three (T3) pattern.
| Waveform | 420 Hz square wave |
|---|---|
| Pulse | 0.625 s on / 0.625 s off (equal periods) |
| Ramp | first 6 pulses ramp up in amplitude to full volume |
| Then | after 15–24 s the alert message plays |
| Message | “Warning. The fire alarm system has operated, standby for further instructions” |
DOC-01-040 §2.2, NZS 4512 signal set. Simulator uses 16 pulse pairs = 20 s, inside the stated window.
| Waveform | square wave, frequency ramping 500 → 1200 Hz |
|---|---|
| Sweep | 3.75 s ramp, then 0.25 s silence |
| Cycle | 4 sweeps (16 s) + 8 s of message = 24 s cycle |
| Message | “Evacuate the building using the nearest fire exit” |
DOC-01-040 §2.2, NZS 4512 signal set.
| AS 4428.16:2020 | Fire detection, warning, control and intercom systems - control and indicating equipment,
Part 16: Emergency warning control and indicating equipment (EWCIE). Defines the evacuate signal the panel generates.
The ECS-16 fascia plate is marked AS4428.16 : 2020 GRADE 1 EWCIE. |
|---|---|
| AS 4428.4:2016 | Emergency intercommunication control and indicating equipment (EICIE) - the warden-phone
side. Fascia marked AS4428.4 : 2016 EICIE. |
| AS 1670.4:2018 | Installation standard for emergency warning and intercom systems; sets the alert / evacuate strategy and the phased cascade. §4.3 and §4.4 cover permitted delays; the evacuate signal must be broadcast within 10 minutes of a fire alarm. |
| ISO 8201 | Audible emergency evacuation signal - the temporal-three pattern (0.5 s on / 0.5 s off ×3, then 1.5 s off) that AS 4428.16 adopts. Cited directly at DOC-01-040 §2.2. |
| NZS 4512:2021 | New Zealand fire detection and alarm systems in buildings - the alternative signal set selectable above. Referenced in DOC-01-041 §1 and the ECS-16 approvals list. |
| AS 2220.1 | The superseded EWIS standard. Its alert/evacuate signals survive as the named “AS2220 Alert tone” and “AS2220 Evacuation tone” entries in Notifier's tone libraries; for new buildings it was displaced by the ISO 8201 pattern from 2003. |
| SSL / ActivFire | ECS-16 is SSL approved to AS 4428.16:2020, AS 4428.4:2016 and NZ4512, ActivFire listing
afp-3850. |
| Power | Green - on = power on |
|---|---|
| Power Fault | Yellow - battery disconnected, low voltage or capacity test fail; mains fail; PSE failed |
| Network Fault | Yellow - fault on a comms path to a remote ECS-16 or fire panel |
| General Fault | Yellow - a fault is present |
| System Fault | Yellow - watchdog / CRC fault, or the Controller link failed |
| Alarm Input Fault | Yellow - input wiring fault, fire panel off/failed, or a fire zone disabled |
| Manual | Yellow - on = MANUAL (all zones); flashing = some zones; flash-flash-pause = MANUAL elsewhere |
| Auto | Green - on = AUTO |
| Test | Yellow - Test Mode |
| Delay | Yellow - on = enabled, flashing = delay running |
| Silence Warning | Yellow - on = warning system silenced; flashing = some zones only |
| Auto ON, Manual OFF | All zones in AUTO |
|---|---|
| Auto OFF, Manual ON | All zones in MANUAL |
| Auto OFF, Manual F-F-P | All zones in MANUAL elsewhere |
| Auto ON, Manual F-F-P | Some zones in MANUAL elsewhere |
| Auto ON, Manual flashing | Some zones in MANUAL here |
Disabled and Speech work in AUTO and MANUAL; Alert and Evac only in MANUAL (§6.5). Alert and Evac have equal priority and cancel one another. Speech outranks both - live speech overrides any alert or evacuate signal playing, and the signal is restored when PTT is released (§6.1).
In AUTO + TEST, pressing a zone's Alert key simulates an alarm in that zone so the programmed operation can be watched without sounding anything in the building.
Zone Cleared cycles Manned → Manned + Cleared → Cleared → off. It is a log indicator only and has no effect on system operation.
All Alert / All Evac / All Speech remember each zone's state when pressed and restore it when released, unless a zone was individually changed while the all-zone function was active (§6.3).
| WIP ring / call | Flash (beep), flash (beep), pause |
|---|---|
| WIP on-hold | Flash (beep) continuously |
| WIP talk | Steady on |