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Posted by Sandy Savage on December 21, 2005, 1:27 pm
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>> Hi All,
>> Installing a veritas 8c in the morning and I have to connect a smoke
>> detector and a panic button. Does the 8c take these ? and if so what
>> connections do I use. Not being thick just never been asked for these two
>> items before.
>> T.I.A
>> Micky.
>>
> The 8c will definitely take a panic button, and will take a smoke detector
> too. I would reccomend that you fit a texecom smoke detector, and you will
> find that the wiring instructions for the detector match those of the 8c
> panel, down to the reccomended wire colour to use. Being a 12v powered
> detector, the texecom can be powered from the panel using a 6 core wire. 2
> cores for the switch (normally closed), 2 cores for +12v and 0v, and 2
> cores for tamper if required. The 2 switch wires (normally red and black)
> are wired to the zone in the panel.
> Panic buttons are simply switches. All you need to do is wire up the
> button using 2 wires to the appropriate zone in the 8c panel. You may
> additionally want to connect the tamper wires to the panel if you have 4
> core cable. You must then configure the panel for for fire and panic zones
> appropriately. Since they are both 24 hour zone types, they should trigger
> the alarm even when it is not full or part set.
> To test the smoke detector, set the panel into walk test mode, and press
> the button on the detector. You should hear the matching number of beeps
> for the zone the detector is wired to.
>
Thank you Sean.
I am using a texecom fire detector.
Kind Regards
Micky.
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