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Veritas 8, R8 and R8 Plus cheat sheet

• Arm (away)your codeFULL

  • Close doors and windows. Key in your 4-digit code: the Unset light flashes.
  • Press [FULL]. The exit tone sounds: leave the building. The tone stops once the system has set.
  • An open zone lights up and the keypad beeps its number (zone 2 beeps twice). Exit time waits until it's closed.
  • Press nothing within 16 seconds of your code and the keypad goes back to unset.
  • If your installer has turned it on, [FULL] works without a code.

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• Arm while homeyour codePART

  • Veritas calls this Part Set. It arms only the zones in that part set: the table at the back of the guide lists them.
  • Key in your code. For part set 1 press [PART]. For another, press its number first, then [PART].
  • A quieter exit tone sounds. It stops once that part has set.
  • Closed zones left out of the part set flash during exit time.
  • The Veritas 8, 8 Compact and R8 have part sets 1 and 2. The R8 Plus has 1 to 4.

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• Disarmyour code

  • Come in by your entry route. A slow entry tone starts, and it speeds up in the last 10 seconds.
  • Key in your 4-digit code. The tone stops and the system unsets.
  • During an alarm your code stops the sirens, but the outside strobe keeps flashing.
  • Press [RESET] to stop the strobe. The keypad chimes and goes back to unset.

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• Bypass a zoneyour codeFULLOMITzonePROG

  • Each detector or door contact is a zone. Veritas calls bypassing omitting, and you do it as you set.
  • Key in your code and press [FULL] (or your part set keys), then [OMIT]. Exit time pauses.
  • The zones about to be armed light up. Press a zone's number to omit it, or again to put it back.
  • Press [PROG]. The exit tone and exit time start again.
  • Some zones may be set so they can't be omitted. After 16 seconds with no key pressed, exit time restarts.

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• Alarm memoryyour codePROG41

  • After an alarm, key in your code. The first zone to go off flashes; zones set off after it stay lit.
  • Press [RESET] to clear the lights. This also stops the strobe.
  • To look back at the last 7 alarms: key in your code, press [PROG], then [4] and the alarm number. 1 is the latest.
  • Press [RESET] twice to finish.
  • Zone lights flashing a 4-digit number mean it needs an anti-code. Ring the anti-code number in your guide and read it out.

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• Chime on or offthe key with a musical note on it

  • Chime makes the keypad sound a tone when a chosen zone opens while the alarm is unset.
  • Press the musical-note key. A chime tone means chime is on; an error tone means it is off.
  • To choose the zones: key in your code, press the chime key, then press zone numbers to light or clear them.
  • Press [PROG] to finish with chime on, or [RESET] to finish with it off.
  • Chime does nothing until zones are chosen. If it comes on by itself, your system may be due for a service.

  Chime tone	Chime is now on
  Error tone	Chime is now off

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• Panic alarm3+9

  • On the Veritas 8, 8 Compact and R8, press [3] and [9] together for a personal attack alarm.
  • It's on from the factory, but your installer can switch it off. Older remote keypads don't have it.
  • Key in your code to stop it.

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• Change a codeyour codePROG60new codePROGRESET

  • Write the new code down first. If it's forgotten, an engineer has to visit to set a new one.
  • Key in your code, press [PROG], then [6] [0]. The zone lights go out.
  • Key in the new 4-digit code. Zone lights 1 to 4 come on as you go.
  • Press [PROG]: the keypad chimes to accept it. Press [RESET] to finish.

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• Test the systemyour codePROG06

  • Walk test: key in your code, press [PROG], then [0] [6]. The zone lights go out and a quiet tone sounds.
  • Walk past each detector and open each door. Its zone light comes on and the keypad beeps its number.
  • Press [RESET] twice to finish.
  • Siren test: press [0] [5] after [PROG] instead. Then [1] is the bell, [2] the strobe, [3] or [4] the inside sounder, [0] off.

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• Trouble lights

  • When a fault stops the system setting, the keypad beeps a pattern over and over (see the table).
  • Zone beeps: close the open zones and the exit tone carries on. To leave one open, omit it (see Bypass a zone).
  • To set anyway with a power fault: after the 10 beeps press [OMIT], then [0], then [PROG].
  • On the Veritas 8 and 8 Compact, the Power light flashes during a power fault and goes out after [0].
  • If you can't fix a fault, ring your alarm company.

  Zone light on, 1 to 8 beeps	That zone is open or faulty (the beeps count its number)
  10 beeps	Power fault: mains off or battery low
  9 beeps, Tamper light on	Tamper fault: ring your installer
  Unset light flashing	The keypad is waiting for a command after your code
  Zone lights flash a 4-digit number	It needs an anti-code after an alarm
  Chime on by itself, or it won't set	Maybe the service reminder: ring your installer

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