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System faults · Advanced

Address 12 Keeps Dropping Off the Loop After a Storm

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Site

Distribution warehouse, addressable FACP with a Class B SLC of 64 devices. A severe thunderstorm passed through two nights ago.

FACP · Panel display

TROUBLE: NO RESPONSE

SLC 1 ADDR 012 · SMOKE · LOADING DOCK

What you find on arrival

The monitoring company logged 14 'NO RESPONSE — ADDR 012' troubles overnight, each clearing within minutes. Address 12 is a smoke detector at the loading dock. The panel is NORMAL when you arrive, and the facility manager wants to know why this 'random' fault keeps happening.

What do you do?

The fault isn't present right now. How do you hunt an intermittent addressable communication fault?

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