Conventional Fire Alarm Control Panel with Eight Zones

The PANEL is a 4-zone to 16-zone FACP (Fire Alarm Control Panel), which uses conventional input devices.  The panel accepts water flow devices, two-wire smoke detectors, four-wire smoke detectors, pull stations and other normally-open contact devices. Outputs include four Notification Appliance Circuits (NAC, SOUND1-4), three standard Form-A relays (alarm, trouble and supervisory) and an EIA-485 port to interface with remote annunciators and optional remote relay modules. The FACP is field programmable via the panel keypad.  It also supervises all wiring, AC voltage and battery level.

This series of panels are basically the same in application and operation, their differences are shown in Table 1-1. PANEL will be described as the example in the following sections.

Table 1-1

1.1 ProductFeatures

l  4,8,16 Class B Initiating Device Circuits (IDCs)

✓   All zones accept conventional detectors and any normally open contact device

l  Four Class B Notification Appliance Circuits (NACs)

l  One Form-A Alarm Relay

l  One Form-A Trouble Relay

l  One Form-A Supervisory Relay

l  3.0 amps of system power

l  Max 20 conventional detectors in one zone.

l  Auto/Manual mode setting enable walk test.

l  Each Zone can be disabled,

l  Sound output can be disabled.

l  Manual active sound output enabled.

l  Able to report short and broken circuit of detection zones.

l  Designed with standby batteries and space provision for two sealed lead-acid batteries.

l  Testing and disable functions.

l  Can connect max 32 repeater panels by RS485 communicaiton port