Fire Alarm Circuit Board
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gadfly56
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- New Jersey
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- Professional Engineer, Fire & Life Safety
Do you have a make and model on these critters? They look like they might be ferrite core noise suppressors. I have never seen these before myself, but if they are listed for fire alarm use they would be legit. If this is an addressable system, they may also have to be listed with the panel.
fire alarm board
fire alarm board
I worked on a system similar to these boards, It was a gamewell system and I was installing a simplex system in its place. The boards we took out in the demo were gamewells isolation modules that looked like these. I put in simplex's Iam modules in place of these. They are relay modules that give a device an address in a addressable fire system.
fire alarm board
I worked on a system similar to these boards, It was a gamewell system and I was installing a simplex system in its place. The boards we took out in the demo were gamewells isolation modules that looked like these. I put in simplex's Iam modules in place of these. They are relay modules that give a device an address in a addressable fire system.
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- Placerville, CA, USA
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- Retired PV System Designer
So the DIP switch we see in the photo is how you set the device address?
dhalleron
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- Louisville, KY
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- Master Electrician/Senior Fire Alarm Technician
Depending on the brand fire alarm panel they do look like monitor modules. If you do a search on Google Images for Silent Knight SD500MIM you will see some modules that look similar. They may have had a plastic case that was removed so they would fit better in that box.
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
Ragin Cajun
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- Upstate S.C.
Looks like a ground alarm waiting to occur. Poor linstallation to say the least, but all too common.
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