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Significantly updates the Engineering guidebook (more explicitly the Atmos section) to have a lot more relevant and useful information. Right now engineering has been getting update after update with no real change to the relevant guidebook entry. This has lead to a lot of out of date information and bad practices being prevalent in the guidebook, something that pains me to read.
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# Air Alarms
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The Air Alarm is a device that enables central monitoring and control over all relevant Atmos devices linked to it.
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="AirAlarm"/>
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Using the Air Alarm, Atmos can quickly and efficiently manage the atmosphere in a given area.
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A room will often have an Air Alarm mounted on the wall, for quick control over multiple devices in that room.
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You can see how to link devices in the [textlink="Link" link="Networking"] guide.
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## User Interface
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Interacting with an Air Alarm will bring up a menu with 3 sections:
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- Top: The current status of the air alarm. This includes the current pressure and temperature of the area the air alarm is monitoring.
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- Middle: Lists of linked [textlink="Air Vents" link="AirVent"] and [textlink="Air Scrubbers" link="AirScrubber"], as well as all sensors reporting back to the air alarm.
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- Bottom: Buttons to control air alarm operating modes, as well as the ability to toggle the automatic changing of modes.
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## Alarm Status
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Air alarms quickly communicate the status of the area they are monitoring through the color of the light on the device:
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- [color=green]Normal[/color]: The area is safe to breathe in.
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- [color=yellow]Warning[/color]: The area is starting to deviate from the desired atmosphere, and is becoming unsafe.
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- [color=red]Danger[/color]: The area is no longer safe, internals and/or hardsuits are required.
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Air alarms will automatically drop (close) linked [textlink="firelocks" link="FireAndGasControl"] when the [color=Red]Danger[/color] status is reached.
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These [textlink="firelocks" link="FireAndGasControl"] will automatically raise (open) when the status returns to [color=green]Normal[/color].
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Air alarms have [textlink="signal" link="Networking"] outputs for each of the three statuses, which can be used to trigger other [textlink="signal" link="Networking"] devices when the status changes.
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## Sensors
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All [textlink="Air Vents" link="AirVent"] and [textlink="Air Scrubbers" link="AirScrubber"] have a built-in sensor, which reports back to the air alarm.
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These sensors can be adjusted in the [bold]Sensors[/bold] tab of the air alarm menu.
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An air alarm's status is directly determined by the thresholds on each sensor.
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If a sensor reports a pressure, temperature, or gas composition outside the set thresholds, the air alarm will change its status accordingly.
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These thresholds can be adjusted and disabled as needed.
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For example, if you are monitoring a room that naturally has a low temperature (such as a freezer) or a high temperature (such as a burn chamber), you can adjust the temperature thresholds to match the expected values.
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An air sensor can also be constructed and [textlink="linked" link="Networking"] to an air alarm.
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="AirSensor"/>
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</Box>
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This is useful for monitoring areas that you don't have an air vent or scrubber in already.
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## Operating Modes
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To control connected devices quickly, air alarms feature operating modes, which quickly changes the behavior of all linked devices to achieve a desired effect.
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- None: Disables all devices linked to the air alarm.
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- Filtering: [textlink="Air Vents" link="AirVent"] will be enabled with their external bound set to standard atmospheric pressure. [textlink="Air Scrubbers" link="AirScrubber"] will be enabled and scrub all waste gasses normally.
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- Filtering (Wide): Same as Filtering, but all linked [textlink="Air Scrubbers" link="AirScrubber"] will enable their WideNet mode.
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- Fill: [textlink="Air Vents" link="AirVent"] will be enabled with their external bound set to max pressure, [color=orange][protodata="GasVentPump" comp="GasVentPump" member="MaxPressure"/] kPa[/color]. [textlink="Air Scrubbers" link="AirScrubber"] will be disabled.
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- Panic: [textlink="Air Vents" link="AirVent"] will be disabled, and [textlink="Air Scrubbers" link="AirScrubber"] will be set to siphon mode.
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Air alarms will automatically switch between the Filtering and Filtering (Wide) modes based on the current status of the area they are monitoring.
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- If the area reaches [color=red]Danger[/color] status or above, the air alarm will switch to Filtering (Wide) mode.
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- If the area reaches [color=green]Normal[/color] or [color=yellow]Warning[/color] status, the air alarm will switch to Filtering mode.
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This behavior can be disabled by toggling the "Auto" box in the bottom section of the air alarm menu.
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Relevant tips on how to fix [textlink="spacing" link="Spacing"] and [textlink="fires" link="Fires"] can be found in the relevant guides.
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</Document>
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