Repeater panels, also known as Annunciator panels are used to provide a visual display of the main panel. They can additionally provide limited control functions, such as acknowledge, silence, and reseting the main fire alarm panel.
Plate Repeater is used in the fire alarm system so that it shows the same information that the main control panel does. The repeater panel looks a lot like the main control panel and can be placed up to 30 meters from the main control panel.
Mimic panel in fire alarm system 'mimics' or mirrors the signal of the Main Fire Control Panel.
A repeater panel looks nearly or identical to the main panel. You can control the functions of the panel that you can do on the main panel. A mimic panel just simply 'mimics' what happens on the fire alarm system. You can't do any functions like enable/disable or sound/silence alarms etc. It has an in built piezo buzzer when a fire alarm is activated, the mimic panel displays this status and tells you the zone/zone description. It may also tell you any faults that have occured. You can silence the buzzer on this mimic panel.
Mimic panel in fire alarm system 'mimics' or mirrors the signal of the Main Fire Control Panel.
First you locate the source of the alarm, undo the condition (e.g., valve closed, inadequate pressure, etc), then reset the alarm condition on the sprinkler control panel and reset the alarm on the fire alarm control panel (assuming they're connected, as required by many fire codes).
In some circumstances you need to put the alarm control panel in one location but have the information from the panel available somewhere else. For example, the control panel might need to be installed in the main reception area of an office complex but the information might need to be duplicated in the hut of the night-watchman. Another example might be in a school where the alarm control panel needs to be near the school office but the information also needs to be available in the caretaker's house. In these and similar situations, FirePoint-2 gives you a simple solution.
Are you referring to the circuit supplying power to the control panel or the initiation/notification branch circuits controlled by the fire alarm system? The ampacity of the fire alarm control panel would determine the circuit size of the branch circuit supplying power to the control panel and the terminal on the control panel and fire alarm device would detrmine the size of conductor that it will accept. Most fire alarm control panels would require a minimum 15 amp circuit. The minimum conductor size allowed per the NEC would be 14 AWG. 22 AWG. is the smallest conductor that most control panels and device terminals will accept. These are considered Power Limited circuits.
To effectively stop a fire alarm from sounding, locate the alarm's control panel and enter the designated code or press the reset button. If you are not able to do this, contact the fire department for assistance.
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There is no such standard. Fire alarm control panels are typically customized for as many loops as necessary for the structure. It may have one loop or a hundred or anything in between.
It should be really located by an entrance exit for conveniant reasons. For example, when there is a fire alarm or a fire, the fire brigade can quickly access and see where abouts the fire has been reported to, instead of wondering around to find it in some random office, corridor some where. Or you could have repeater panels, two panels that nearly look identical to eachother. The main panel controls the system on its own. It then corresponds the information from the main panel to the repeater panel where it is displayed. Idealy, you should have some zone displaying panel by an exit so it can easily be accessed and looked at with the main panel being at a central office somewhere. Both ways are a good option.
To open a fire alarm, you typically need to break the glass or press a button on the alarm panel. This will activate the alarm and alert others of a fire emergency.