Document No: GLT-207-7-2
Issue No: 007
Author: NRP Jones
Date: 11/01/2018
Page 3
ADDRESSABLE XTRATONE SOUNDER BEACON - INSTALLATION MANUAL
Alarm Tone Selection
The Xtratone sounder beacon supports alarm tone selection. IE, the installer can decide
which alarm tone ALL the sounders will use. The alarm tone can be set for the whole
system via the control panel. One of 16 tones can be chosen for the alarm tone.
No Tone Description
Pattern
Frequency Rate
0*
BS Fire (Default Zeta tone)
Alternating
800 & 970
1Hz (500ms-500ms)
1
BS Fire
Alternating
800 & 970
2Hz (250ms-250ms)
2
BS Fire
Sweep
800 to 970
1Hz (1 per second)
3
BS Fire
Sweep
800 to 970
7Hz (7 per second)
4
BS Fire
Sweep
800 to 970
50Hz (50 per
second)
5
BS Fire
Alternating
510 & 610
1Hz (500ms-500ms)
6
German fire (DIN 33 404)
Sweep (DIN) 1200 to 500 1Hz
7
French fire (NFS 32-001)
Alternating
554 & 440
100ms-400ms
8*
Dutch fire (NEN 2575)
Slow whoop 500 to 1200 3.5s sweep, 0.5 s
silence, then repeat
9
PFEER Toxic Gas
Continuous
970
Steady
10
PFEER alert
Intermittent 970
0.5Hz (1s On/1s Off)
11
Reserved
-
-
-
12
Reserved
-
-
-
13
Reserved
-
-
-
14
Reserved
-
-
-
15
Reserved
-
-
-
* Approved Tones
See Document GLT-290-6-1 for further operational data.
Selecting a Reserved tone will cause the sounder to play tone 0. The default alarm tone
will be tone 0.
Other Tones
The Xtratone has 3 tones that can be triggered in normal running:-
• Alarm Tone – Selectable – see list above.
• Alert tone – 970Hz intermittent. 0.5s on, 0.5s off
• Emergency - 970Hz intermittent: 3 x 500ms pulses, 1.5s silence, then repeat
The availability of these tones will depend on the Control panel used.
