Alarms

Your meters supports a number of different alarm types.

A unary alarm is the simplest type of alarm — it monitors a single behavior, event or condition.

Digital alarms monitor the ON or OFF state of the meter’s digital / status inputs.

Standard alarms are setpoint-driven alarms which monitor certain behaviors, events or unwanted conditions in your electrical system.

A logic alarm is used to monitor up to four different inputs or parameters.

Custom alarms (Cust1s) are setpoint-driven alarms, similar to the standard (1-Sec) alarms.

The disturbance (sag/swell) alarms is applicable only in PM5650 / PM5760 / PM5761 meter models.

Each alarm has a priority level that you can use to distinguish between events that require immediate action and those that do not require action.

You can use the meter display or ION Setup to configure unary, digital or standard (1-Sec) alarms. To configure logic and custom alarms, you must use ION Setup .

You can use the meter’s alarm / energy pulsing LED as an alarm indicator.

The meter notifies you when an alarm condition is detected.

You can configure the meter to send an email or email-to-text message when alarm conditions are detected, and set the alarm types and priorities that trigger the email.

Each occurrence of a low, medium or high priority alarm is stored in the active alarms list and recorded in the alarm history log.

You can use the meter display to acknowledge high-priority alarms.

Use ION Setup to reset alarms.