Ademco Accord XPC manuals

Keypad cheat sheet

• Arm (away)your code1

  • The panel calls this Full Set. Shut the doors and windows, and make sure no detector is picking up movement.
  • Key in your user code, then press 1. If Easy Set is available on your system, # then 1 also sets it.
  • A steady exit tone starts and the DAY light flashes (a DAY symbol on the LCD keypad). The tone breaks up as you pass each detector on your way out.
  • The tone goes steady again after the last detector on the exit route. Two beeps mean the system has set.
  • To stop it setting, press * during the exit time. Once the system has set, * no longer does this.

  Pages 2, 4, 7 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Arm while homeyour code2oryour code3

  • Part Set (2) and Night Set (3) protect the zones agreed with your installer. Night Set can leave bedrooms unarmed.
  • Key in your user code, then press 2 for Part Set or 3 for Night Set.
  • Part Set has the same exit tone as Full Set. Night Set is silent; its DAY light flashes as you pass exit-route detectors.
  • On the LCD keypad, the DAY symbol flashes during the Night Set exit time.
  • Two beeps mean it has set. Press * during the exit time to stop it setting.

  Pages 2 and 3, 7 and 8 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Disarmyour code

  • The panel calls this unsetting. Come in by your usual route, go straight to the keypad and key in your user code.
  • In an alarm, your code stops it and the keypad shows the zone that started it. Key in your code again to reset.
  • Some systems need an engineer's code to reset after an alarm. If yours won't reset, ring your alarm company.
  • All lights on, then a 5-digit number in lights? (LCD: cE and the zone, then cE and the number.) Give that number to your monitoring company.
  • Key in the code they give you back. It resets the system.

  Pages 3, 8 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Bypass a zoneyour code6zone*

  • The panel calls this omitting a zone. Each detector or door contact is a zone.
  • Key in your user code, press 6, then each zone number, for example 6, 7 and 8.
  • Press * to finish, or wait 5 seconds. The omitted zones' lights flash (on the LCD, their numbers flash).
  • Then set the system as usual. Unsetting brings every zone back.
  • Fire, PA and silent PA zones can't be omitted. Omitted the wrong zone? Key in your code, press 6, then *.

  Pages 4, 8 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Alarm memoryyour code0

  • Key in your user code, then press 0.
  • The last 16 alarm zones show, newest first, on the zone lights (as numbers on the LCD), with a single beep.
  • Straight after an alarm, your code silences it and the keypad shows the zone that set it off.

  Pages 3, 6 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Chime on or offyour code9zone*oryour code9*

  • A chime zone gives 2 beeps at the keypad and 2 from the inside sounder when that zone is triggered.
  • To add one: key in your user code, press 9, then the zone number. Press * or wait for the beep.
  • To turn chime off on every zone: your code, 9, then *. It can't be turned off for one zone alone.
  • Chimes are also cleared each time the engineer goes in and out of programming.

  Page 6 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Panic alarm*+#or7+9or4+6

  • These hot keys work only if your installer has turned them on.
  • Press * and # together for a panic (PA) alarm. All the keypad lights come on (PA on the LCD).
  • Press 7 and 9 together for a fire alarm, with a pulsing tone, or 4 and 6 to call for assistance.
  • Key in your user code to stop the alarm.

  Pages 4 and 5 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Change a codeyour code8user numbernew code

  • User 1 is the master code. The system holds up to 8 user codes.
  • Key in your code, press 8, your user number, then the new code. For the master code, two beeps confirm it.
  • The master code can set any user's code: master code, 8, the user number (2 to 8), then their code.
  • To delete your own code: your code, 8, your user number, then *. The master code can delete any code.
  • User 8 may be set up as a duress code. It works as normal but sends a silent alert to your monitoring station.

  Pages 5, 7 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Set the date and timeyour code#0datetime

  • Key in your user code, then press # then 0.
  • Key in the day, month, year, hour and minute, 2 digits each, in that order (ddmmyyhhmm).
  • Two beeps mean it was accepted. The clock stamps each event the system records.

  Page 6 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions
• Trouble lights

  • These are the LED keypad's lights. The LCD keypad shows a symbol for each instead, listed in the manual.
  • A steady DAY light means the system is unset; flashing means it is set, or setting.

  Zone light on	That zone caused an alarm, or was tested
  Zone light flashing	That zone is omitted
  TAMPER light on	Tamper on zone 9
  TAMPER and a zone light flashing	That zone's tamper was set off
  TELEPHONE light on	Phone line fault
  TELEPHONE light flashing	A report didn't get through
  BAT light on	Backup battery low or missing
  POWER light off	Mains power has failed

  Page 5 of the Ademco Microtech Accord XPC User Instructions