Alarms of severity levels 1 through 3 are displayed in the right hand column. Within the column, alarms are sorted first based on severity level and then based on time of arrival. The most severe alarms will appear at the top of the screen. Within a group of alarms of the same severity level, the most recent alarms will appear at the top of the list . Most alarms in the system are severity level 1 and will appear in the right hand column.
Some events can cause a flood of alarms to come to the alarm screen.
The display indicates how many alarms of a particular type have occurred. To get more information about the grouped alarms , you need to use one of the response options described below. Note that if a single power supply fault provokes a quench event, it is likely that the offending supply will be displayed individually on the screen while all others will be grouped with a Quench fault description. Only 24 rows of alarm information are displayed on the screen at a given time. If the screen is full, you need to use one of the Response options described below to get information about alarms that may have scrolled off the bottom of the screen.