Document No: LT0117
F4000 LCD Operator's Manual
System Description
Issue 2.38
19 April 2002
Page 2-5
F4000 FIRE INDICATOR PANEL (FIP) (CONTINUED)
iii)
Controlling the relays used to drive auxiliary system devices such as bells,
door holders etc.
iv)
Controlling remote plant by sending control data via the communications loop
to Responders fitted with output devices.
(c)
To provide a simplified operator/Brigade interface that allows personnel to easily
control the day to day operation of the panel (eg: to acknowledge alarms, test zones,
isolate zones, etc).
(d)
To monitor its own integrity and annunciate internal fault conditions.
(e)
To provide a means of entering or modifying configuration data or "SYSTEM
DATABASE" from a Programming Terminal. This defines what the specific F4000
system consists of and how it should respond to inputs and control outputs.
2.1.3 RESPONDERS
The Responders are located around the protected premises and provide the interface
between the detection devices and the F4000 System. They are low power devices, deriving
their power from the 4 core communications loop that runs from the FIP, through each
Responder, and back to the FIP again. The F4000 System can monitor and control a
maximum of 127 Responders.
It is this loop system that makes the F4000 System so adaptable since larger systems are
implemented simply by extending the loop and adding more Responders in the appropriate
places.
To the "Operator" and "Fire Brigade", the Responders are "transparent" in that they simply
serve as data concentration points and have no operator features themselves.
2.1.3.1
ADVANCED DETECTOR RESPONDER (ADR)
The ADR is the standard alarm zone circuit processing unit of the F4000 system. ADRs are
therefore usually located near the zone circuit(s) they monitor. Up to four (4) Alarm Zone
Circuits may be connected to each ADR to monitor the approved compatible actuating
devices wired on the circuit.
The ADR may be upgraded to an "Advanced Relay (Detector) Responder" (ARR), with the
addition of a plug-in Responder Relay Module (RRM). This adds four (4) relay outputs to the
inputs provided on each ADR. Each relay can be programmed to operate on specific input
conditions. Alternatively the relay may be configured to belong to an ANCILLARY
CONTROL ZONE, so that operated, isolated and fault indications may be shown at the
F4000 FIP.
2.1.3.2
ANALOGUE ADDRESSABLE RESPONDER (AAR)
The Analogue Addressable Responder (AAR) allows up to 200 analogue addressable
devices to be connected on a loop of its own. These devices may be analogue addressable
smoke detectors or addressable device units (ADU) that provide specific input and output
facilities. The addressable devices may be mapped to zones in the same way that ADR
circuits are.
