FKI Tech Info

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Vindicator - Alarms

Problems Sending Duress Alarm

1. Is the alarm hooked up (by the alarm company)?
2. Check the alarm wire hook-up to the inner board.
3. Test the a key and PIN for normal operation.
4. Test that the same key works with PIN = PIN + 1 and see if alarm relay actuates. If it does, the problem is with the alarm company. If the relay does not actuate, replace the inner board.

Door Alarm

1. Open the outer door and then remove the contact sensor from the "frame/body" side of the safe. Place this on the other sensor contact located on the door. While the door remains OPEN, put the outer door into a locked condition. Did this stop the alarm? If yes, the sensors need to be adjusted. If no, continue to step 2.
2. Open the inner door. This may require an over-ride or drilling. Locate the sensor connectors and place a jumper between Sensor 1 and Sensor Return. A paper clip or a piece of wire will work fine. With the outer door still locked and in the "Open" position, did the alarm stop? If yes, go to step 3. If no, go to step 4.
3. Use a meter and ohm out the outer door cable to insure that there is continuity between the end of the cable that terminates at the lower board and the door contacts. If continuity does not exist, then see if it does between the end of the cable and the lock switch. The idea is to determine which switch is bad or if the cable itself has a break in it. Remember that the lock sensor and the magnetic door sensor are tied in "series" which requires both to indicate a closed door in order for the electronics to consider the door closed. Replace the defective part.
4. If jumping the connectors on the lower board does not stop the door alarm, check the programming under Vindicator Lock/Administration/Parameters/Factory/Door Configuration. You will have to do an over-ride to check this, unless the locksmith happens to have a factory key, which they shouldn't normally. Under "Door Configuration" check to see which sensor the system is looking for to determine if the door is closed or not. Normally, it should be set to sensor "1". If it is not, find out which sensor it is looking for and determine if this is correct by tracing out the wires from the lower board to the sensors. If you can not determine a reason that it shouldn't be set to look at sensor "1", then go back into the programming and make it so.
NOTE: If everything in the programming is correct and the sensor wires are connected to the proper location, then replace the lower board. (This should seldom be the case).

Alarm Wires

For the alarm we supply the wires for the alarm system. These are connected as follows:
   TB1 ARM/DISARM: Blank.
   TB1 ALARM: Red wire.
   TB1 DURESS: Black wire.
   TB1 ALARM RETURN: Yellow wire. This is commonly refered to as the common.
Note: This is normally a closed sensor circuit.

Door Strike

Cinemark may have an external door strike. This is wired from the daughterboard on the Vindicator inner board as follows:
TB4 1LED (-): Black wire goes to the Pedestrial Door LED.
TB4 2LED (+): Red wire goes to the Pedestrial Door LED.
TB4 3KEY (+): Orange wire goes to the Pedestrial Door key.
TB4 4KEY (-): Blue/violet wire goes to the Pedestrial Door key.
TB5 NO: Brown wire goes to the 12 Vdc door strike coil. This has a 1N4004 diode (or equiv) wired to the yellow wire.
TB5 C: Not used.
TB5 NC: Not used.
TB6 1: Exit Sensor, white wire.
TB6 2: Door Position Sensor, green wire.
TB6 3: Sensor Return, yellow wire.
Note: The green and white wires are also tied into the yellow wire using 2.2K ohm resistors.