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  2. Fire alarm notification appliance - Wikipedia

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    A Simplex-brand fire alarm bell. A fire alarm notification appliance is an active fire protection component of a fire alarm system.A notification appliance may use audible, visible, or other stimuli to alert the occupants of a fire or other emergency condition requiring action.

  3. Fire alarm control panel - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm control panel (FACP), fire alarm control unit (FACU), fire indicator panel (FIP), or simply fire alarm panel is the controlling component of a fire alarm system. The panel receives information from devices designed to detect and report fires, monitors their operational integrity, and provides for automatic control of equipment, and ...

  4. Wheelock (brand) - Wikipedia

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    A Wheelock AS horn/strobe. In 1995, Wheelock introduced the AS, a combination horn and strobe. The AS was first created with a vertical position strobe on the right side of the horn, except for 110 candela models, which used a horizontal strobe. In 1997 when the NS was introduced, the strobe on all AS models was moved to the horizontal position.

  5. Fire alarm system - Wikipedia

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    Some fire alarm systems utilize emergency voice alarm communication systems (EVAC) [17] to provide prerecorded and manual voice messages. Voice alarm systems are typically used in high-rise buildings, arenas, and other large "defend-in-place" occupancies such as hospitals and detention facilities where total evacuation is difficult to achieve.

  6. Manual fire alarm activation - Wikipedia

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    Manual fire alarm activation requires human intervention, as distinct from automatic fire alarm activation such as that provided through the use of heat detectors and smoke detectors. It is, however, possible for call points/pull stations to be used in conjunction with automatic detection as part of the overall fire detection and alarm system .

  7. System Sensor - Wikipedia

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    The SpectrAlert series included horn strobes, strobes, remote horns, chimes, chime strobes, speakers, and speaker strobes. A main feature of these alarms was the ability to sync them using a System Sensor MDL sync module or the System Sensor sync protocol on a supported fire alarm control panel. Three years after the initial release of the ...

  8. Control and indicating equipment - Wikipedia

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    The fire detection and fire alarm system subcommittee of ISO/TC 21, Equipment for Fire Protection and Fire Fighting, had oversight for development of five standards covering detectors, control and indicating equipment. ISO 7240-2:3003 specifies requirements, test methods and performance criteria for control and indicating equipment (c.i.e.) for ...

  9. Strobe light - Wikipedia

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    The strobe rate of fire alarms in schools, hospitals, stadiums, etc. for any emergency notification should be maintained between 1.0 - 2.0 Hertz as a seizure precaution. [ 16 ] Most strobe lights on sale to the public are factory-limited to about 10–12 Hz (10–12 flashes per second) in their internal oscillators , although externally ...