Control Panel

[David Rooney]

Looks like our kit!

I thought you'd gone for some godforsaken made in a mud hut next to Nike type system .....??!!!

[Allen Higginson]

Looks like our kit!

I thought you'd gone for some godforsaken made in a mud hut next to Nike type system .....??!!!

Cheeky!I meant our own brand kit - http://www.buildingtechnologies.siemens.com/press/press_release/subchannel_press_release_2006/smoke_detectors_go_wireless.htm & http://www.buildingtechnologies.siemens.com/products_systems/fire_safety/fire_safety_products/special_detection/Radioline.htm?languagecode=en

[Wiz]

Buzz, I followed your links out of interest.

I found the following description of a call point:

Manual call point SMF121
The radio base manual call points allows to release a fire alarm immediately by a human being, anywhere in the building.

I know what it is trying to say, but it doesn't do it very well, does it?. It reads like it has been translated from a foreign language into English by a software programme!!

This has nothing to do with anything else discussed on this thread, but I just had to highlight because it made me smile. 

[Allen Higginson]

Buzz, I followed your links out of interest.

I found the following description of a call point:

Manual call point SMF121
The radio base manual call points allows to release a fire alarm immediately by a human being, anywhere in the building.

I know what it is trying to say, but it doesn't do it very well, does it?. It reads like it has been translated from a foreign language into English by a software programme!!

This has nothing to do with anything else discussed on this thread, but I just had to highlight because it made me smile.  

..as opposed to malicious activation by cows I suppose!!
You want to try following the engineers manuals sometimes Wiz! - sometimes I wish that I spoke German and just read the actual manual.

[Wiz]

It was 'releasing the fire alarm' that really worried me. You don't want to have an unshackled one of them wandering around anywhere in the building!

[Allen Higginson]

It was 'releasing the fire alarm' that really worried me. You don't want to have an unshackled one of them wandering around anywhere in the building!

It would save on sounder installation costs though - activate a manual call point and the active sounder runs around the building in response

[David Rooney]

Looks like our kit!

I thought you'd gone for some godforsaken made in a mud hut next to Nike type system .....??!!!

Cheeky!I meant our own brand kit - http://www.buildingtechnologies.siemens.com/press/press_release/subchannel_press_release_2006/smoke_detectors_go_wireless.htm & http://www.buildingtechnologies.siemens.com/products_systems/fire_safety/fire_safety_products/special_detection/Radioline.htm?languagecode=en

Have to say it looks quite stylish....

Problem I find with all this radio kit is that still isn't particularly user friendly and that you need to be a bit of a nerd to understand it (no offence to nerds) hence there are alot of systems installed out there that get bad press simply because the "engineers" are used to hardwired kit and don't really know where they're at with radio...