BPS-1100 Installation and Operation Manual
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9.5 Circuit Types
Input Circuits Types
Alarm Input
This is a “Normal” type of Alarm which may have an alarm contact attached to it. Any activation of this contact will
immediately result in an Alarm condition. An Alarm condition causes the associated Input Circuit Status LED to
illuminate Red. All output circuits configured to this input will activate at alert rate. De-activation of this input will turn
off all of the outputs configured to this input.
General Alarm Input
This input follows the Fire Alarm Panel set to two stage operation. In single stage these inputs act the same as
Alarms, but if Correlations are enabled, General Alarm Input Circuits are correlated to ALL Indicating Circuits.
General Alarm Inputs activate outputs at configured evacuation rate.
Indicating (Output) Circuits Types
Signal
For audible devices such as bells and piezo mini-horns. While sounding, these follow the pattern appropriate for the
condition; the configured Evacuation Code (default is Temporal Code) during Single-Stage Alarm, or Two-Stage
General Alarm, or the Alert Code during Two-Stage’s Alert (First) Stage.
Strobe
For visual devices such as strobes that use no code pattern (they are continuous) and follow input contact.
Evacuation Codes
Single stage codes
Two-stage codes:
Figure 15: Evacuation Codes
Continuous
On 100% of the time
Temporal Code
3 of 0.5 second on, 0.5 second off then, 1.5 second pause
March Code
0.5 second on, 0.5 second off
California Code
5 seconds on, 10 seconds off
Alert Code
0.5 second on, 2.5 seconds off
General Alarm
Evacuation code as selected from above.
0.5s
0.5s
1.5s
0.5s
0.5s
5s
10s
CONTINOUS
TEMPORAL CODE
MARCH CODE
CALIFORNIA CODE
0.5s
2.5s
ALERT CODE
