Fike Control Panels

Detectors and sounders are installed on the same pair of wires, one pair per zone. The 505-0008 uses a single 2-core screened cable per zone for detectors, call points and sounders. With the TWINFLEX 4 ZONE PANEL BLACK, a Multipoint ASD detector wired to the system can also have a sounder and strobe connected without extra installation time.

Choose the Fike control panel by the number of zones the building needs. The 505-0002 is the 2-zone TwinflexPro2 panel and the 505-0008 has 8 onboard detection zones, while the TWINFLEX 4 ZONE PANEL BLACK has 4 zones and accepts repeater panels over an RS485 data link. The 505-0002 takes up to 32 devices per zone, subject to device loading units.

It is a Fike feature that gives a pre-alarm in a dwelling before a full evacuation. On the TWINFLEX 4 ZONE PANEL BLACK, zones are set as dwelling or communal; a dwelling activation sounds only the local sounder during the verification period, while a communal activation starts a full alarm immediately. On that panel the pre-alarm can be programmed between 1 and 5 minutes, and the 505-0002 also has checkpoint functionality for dwelling and communal zoning.

It is the panel that the detectors, call points and sounders of a fire alarm system are wired back to, zone by zone. The 505-0008 is an intelligent two-wire fire alarm control panel on which those devices share one 2-core screened cable per zone, with a 4 × 20 character LCD and a 500-event log. The TWINFLEX 4 ZONE PANEL BLACK tells call point alarms apart from detector alarms and gives a separate fault monitoring display per zone.

The 505-0002 requires two 12 V, 3.3 Ah standby batteries. The 505-0008 has an integral mains PSU and requires external 2 x 12 V sealed lead-acid standby batteries, typically 2 x 3.2 Ah. Battery sizing for a particular installation should be checked by the engineer commissioning the panel against the Fike datasheet.