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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Technical Advice => Topic started by: kurnal on March 01, 2010, 04:55:04 PM
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Any idea what the outlook for spares and repairs to the old firedex 1000 panels installed in 1988-1990 is likely to be?
A client (housing association) has many of them at a number of properties and I was looking at 1, 2 5 and 10 year upgrade and investment plans for all fire safety aspects.
Are spares still readily available? On upgrading we need to take a leap forward to addressable and staged alarms and I dont want the plan to be derailed by unexpectedly having to replace the firedexes as a stop gap measure.
Thanks
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You have got more chance , with an audience with the Pope , however EBay is quite useful .
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On upgrading we need to take a leap forward to addressable and staged alarms and I don't want the plan to be derailed by unexpectedly having to replace the firedexes as a stop gap measure.
Why don't you put in the analogue panels , and run them with zone monitors until you are ready for the full bells and whistles .
You then have good room to navigate to suit the lay of the land ................. just a thought . :P
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Thanks Paul. Good thinkin.
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Prof., in the same vein as Galeon's advice, Haes now make a panel called the Fusion which accepts both addressable loop and non-addressable zone cards in any combination. i.e you can fit it with non-addressable zone cards now and replace them with addressable loops later. At the half-way point of system changeover, you can have one panel running both technologies.
To be fair, there are also many other addressable system panel manufacturers that have always offered a 'conventional zones' card that can be included in their panels.
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Thanks everybody.