Appendix B - General Guidelines
Labels
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Labels are given to identify location of areas on a site.
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A previous created label can be modified.
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for manual call points enter text MCP in the label description.
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a
32 character label
can be given to a device, each Input/Output line, zone or sector
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A
supervisory input
channel label
of an
interface unit
will be displayed at the
control panel
when an interface input has operated.
Sectors
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There can be up to 16 Alarm or Plant sectors
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a sector is a collection of devices having a common action.
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a sector that is actioned ON will activate its alarm devices, such as interface outputs,
S-cube and Visual and audible part of an S-Quad.
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a sector signal can be Continuous (factory default for Class Change), 0.25 second
pulse (factory default for Alert), Nee-naw (factory default for Evacuate) or 0.5 second
pulse (factory default for Test)
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Alarm sectors operate automatically with ‘Sound Alarms’ and ‘Silence Alarms’
buttons
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Plant sectors are independent of the ‘Sound Alarms’ button and are primarily used
with plant control equipment and can be silenced by pressing the 'Reset' button.
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A loop powered interface outputs can be assigned to a sector.
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Alarm sounders and interface outputs are restricted to one sector only.
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The fire plan on power up is known as ‘one out all out’. This is when sector 1 has all
the sounder and output devices of the system. A fire event will activate evacuate on
all interface outputs and alarm sounders in the system.
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A sector can be assigned for activation by class change.
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It is advisable to build a fail safe mechanism when sectoring. If for any reason certain
sector assignment has been lost due to system power-down and subsequent NVM
recovery conflicts on system power up, the sounders will still operate in a fire
condition.
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the fail safe mechanism will involve leaving Sector 1 free from any device
assignment, as any devices that lose their sector assignment will default to Sector 1.
Day Mode delays
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a Day Mode delay can be:
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switched ON / OFF manually at the panel
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or preconfigured to operate ON, OFF or with CALENDAR
Zones
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A zone has a collection of trigger devices that are located in the same general area. It
may be used for one or all three of the following:
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for illumination of zonal fire at the panel
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for common disablement purposes
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a device may only be assigned to one zone.
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input/output lines of an interface can be assigned individually to zones.
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a zone is a collection of devices, sharing a common label
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zones default to normal operation and can be configured for coincidence operation
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coincidence of 2 detector operation in a zone or
•
coincidence of 2 zone
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disabling a zone will disable the sensors within that zone
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all devices default to zone 1
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The exceptions are devices that cannot be zoned, see page 36.
Fire relay
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The 'Fire relay' is not enabled (factory default) and can be enabled to operate with
zone fire. The relay is normally de-energised.
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Nano panel based system
Appendix
B
-
G
eneral
Guidelines
