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→‎Equipment: moved air alarm info here from advanced atmos guide.

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   |image = AirAlarm.png
   |foundin = Every room with atmospherics
-  |usedfor = Sniffing the atmospheric status near it and controlling the room's vents and scrubbers
+  |usedfor = Sniffing the atmospheric status near it, sending alerts if something isn't right and controlling the room's vents and scrubbers
-  |strategy = Install it in a room wall and it'll find the vents and scrubbers in the room automatically.<br>See a more [[Guide to Atmospherics#Using an Air Alarm|in-depth guide how to use one here]]
+  |strategy = Install it in a room wall and it'll find the vents and scrubbers in the room automatically
- |description = The air regulator. Manages the vents and scrubbers. Gives out an alarm if there's toxins/temperature extremes/pressure extremes.
+ |description = To use an Air Alarm, first swipe your ID across it to unlock it. There are multiple options:
+'''Activate Atmospheric Alarm''': Self Explanatory. The Alarm will show on the Atmos Alert Computers and alerts the AI.
+'''Scrubbers Control''': Controls the scrubbers in the area. Select specific gases to be filtered. Choose between two settings for the scrubbers, scrubbing and syphoning.
+* Scrubbing will slowly drain any gases set to filter in the air of the tile they are on, and transfer it to their pipe. Really, really slow with N2O.
+* Syphoning will do the same, except indiscriminately and drain all gases on their tile.
+'''Vents Control''': you control vents through the air alarm. There are the following settings:
+* '''''External on''', Internal off'': will drain/add air from the tile the vent is on to make it reach the selected pressure. All air being moved goes into/comes out of the pipe the vent is attached to. Set to 0 to drain air, or pressurise to specific levels.
+*'''''Both on''''': completely useless. Don't bother.
+* ''External off, '''Internal on''''': Drains/adds air to the tile to get the pipe attached to the selected pressure level. Setting a vent to internal and the desired pressure to 0 causes ALL gas which enters the pipe to be shunted out onto the tile.
+'''Set Environmentals Mode''': you can select a preset mode for the scrubbers and vents in the area:
+* '''''Filtering''''': Default mode, scrubbers are set to "Filter", vents are set to keep the area at normal pressure (101kPa).
+* '''''Draught''''': scrubbers are set to "Syphon" and vents are On.
+* '''''Panic''''': scrubbers are set to "Panic Syphon" and vents are Off.
+* '''''Replace air''''': scrubbers are set to "Syphon" and vents are Off. Nearly identical to "Panic".
+* '''''Off''''': Both scrubbers and vents are Off.
+'''Sensor Settings''': Let's you change the minima and maxima for pressure, temperature and specific gases to automatically activate the alarm.
+'''Activate Panic Syphons''': They turn all vents off and set all scrubbers to syphon. You *can* do better than that, but most of the methods involve setting vents to suck, and if you need a panic syphon, then sucking contaminated air into Distro kinda sucks.
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