Duress Code Programing and Use

In the event you are forced to disarm/arm the system like for instance you are placed under gunpoint by an assailant and you are forced to open the protected premises and disarm your system, you don't disarm with your normal user code you disarm the system with your duress code, your assailant will not know the difference. This code arms/disarms your system exactly as the regular user codes except it sends a silent duress signal for help to the monitoring station (if you configured your system for monitoring).

To program duress codes on PowerSeries panels software version 4.2 

• Program an additional user code on the system (01-39, 41-95) or see "User Code Programing" first. Let us say we just programed a new user code in user 30
• We now have to change the attribute of that user code 30 to tell the system to send the duress signal whenever user 30 enters his/her code.
• Enter *5 then enter Master or Supervisor Code. Press 99 then enter the 2-digit (30 in this case) user number to edit attribute(s) or see "Programming User Attributes" for more detail. Press 2 and the keypad will show the number 2 in the LCD display or it will turn on the zone 2 light to acknowledge that the duress reporting function is turned on
• Press # to exit
• Your format to configure user code 30 to transmit the duress signal, assuming the master code is 1234 would be: *5 1234 99 30 2 #

If your PowerSeries panel carries the OLDER version software, the duress codes can not be enabled in the user attributes section. Instead only two (2) user codes can be used for duress codes which are users 33 and 34 ONLY. Simple enough all you have to do is program a user code for user 33 or 34 in "User Code Programming" and the panel automatically assigns the duress codes to the two (2) user codes.