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    Types Fire Alarm Control Panels Conventional (Hard Wired)

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    There are three main types of fire alarm control panels: conventional, addressable, and intelligent. Conventional panels are simplest and ideal for small buildings, activating individual devices. Addressable panels can show exactly which devices are activating and allow easy addition of zones. Intelligent panels process detailed data from detectors and employ self-calibration. The main components of a fire alarm system are the control panel, initiating devices like smoke/heat detectors, and notification appliances like bells, strobes, and speakers.

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    There are three main types of fire alarm control panels: conventional, addressable, and intelligent. Conventional panels are simplest and ideal for small buildings, activating individual devices. Addressable panels can show exactly which devices are activating and allow easy addition of zones. Intelligent panels process detailed data from detectors and employ self-calibration. The main components of a fire alarm system are the control panel, initiating devices like smoke/heat detectors, and notification appliances like bells, strobes, and speakers.

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    There are three main types of fire alarm control panels: conventional, addressable, and intelligent. Conventional panels are simplest and ideal for small buildings, activating individual devices. Addressable panels can show exactly which devices are activating and allow easy addition of zones. Intelligent panels process detailed data from detectors and employ self-calibration. The main components of a fire alarm system are the control panel, initiating devices like smoke/heat detectors, and notification appliances like bells, strobes, and speakers.

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    Types Fire Alarm Control Panels

    Conventional (hard wired)

    - Simplest type of control unit


    - Generally, a single circuit board contains power supply, control, initiating
    and notification circuitry.
    - Designated outputs occur when initiating signals are received.
    - Conventional fire alarms are ideal for small buildings, such as individual
    offices or retail shops. They go off individually when they detect smoke or
    heat and will help everyone escape from your building safely and quickly.
    Addressable (multiplexed)
    - They show exactly which devices are going off, it makes it extremely easy to
    figure out either where there is a fire or, in the event of a false alarm, which
    specific device is having a problem.
    - Different devices having different alarm thresholds based on their location
    - An enunciator panel in the front of your building to show exactly which
    devices or zones are alarming
    - Scalable networks that allow you to add zones with ease
    Intelligent (analog data transfer)
    - Always an addressable system
    - Processes detailed, analog data from detectors about smoke levels.
    - Employs drift compensation (self-calibration) in its detectors.

    3 Components of Fire Alarm Control System

    1. Fire Alarm Control Panel (FACP)


    - The brain processor
    - A fire control panel is a component that offers control through a fire alarm
    or notification system. Throughout the building, sensors are installed. These
    sensors redirect information to this control panel. They include
    environmental changes that could detect the presence of a fire. The panel
    receives notifications for potential operational issues with equipment that
    could cause a fire.
    2. Inputs Device/ Initiating Device
    - A fire alarm system initiating device is a device that transmits a signal to the
    fire alarm control unit indicating that the device has undergone a change of
    state.
    - Examples: smoke detectors, heat detectors, manual fire alarm, supervisory
    switch
     Smoke detectors - an alarm that activates automatically when it
    detects smoke
     Heat detectors - is a fire alarm device designed to respond when the
    convected thermal energy of a fire increases the temperature of a
    heat sensitive element.
     Manual Call Points - are designed for the purpose of raising an alarm
    manually once verification of a fire or emergency condition exists, by
    operating the push button or break glass the alarm signal can be
    raised.
    3. Output Devices/ Notification Appliances
    - Notification Appliances: A fire alarm system component such as bell, horn,
    speaker, light, or text display that provides audible, tactile, or visible
    output, or any combination thereof.
    - Notifies people of a Fire or other Life Threatening Emergency

    Notification Appliances Types

    1. Audible – Horns, Bells, Sounder, Sirens, Chimes, Speakers


    2. Visual – Strobes
    3. Physical – Bed Shakers
    4. Olfactory – Smell

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