Advanced MxPro 5 MX-5401D 1-4 Loop Fire Alarm Panel, Deep Enclosure

The Advanced MX-5401D is an MxPro 5 series 1-4 loop addressable fire alarm control panel, supplied with one loop card fitted in the deep enclosure.

The MxPro 5 platform is expandable from one to four loops, and this order code is the deep steel enclosure build of the Apollo XP95/Discovery and Hochiki ESP protocol variant. It ships with four on-board 1 Amp programmable sounder circuits, 20 programmable zonal LEDs with slide-in labels, 25 system LEDs and four programmable function buttons. Behind the front plate sit dual flash-based processors with a real-time clock and trace diagnostics.

They drive a white backlit 240 x 64 graphical LCD and a tactile alphanumeric keypad. Cause-and-effect programming can be done on site at the panel or from a PC. The deep enclosure is the one to choose when the standby battery calculation runs past what the standard box will hold, or when the panel needs room for option cards and extra terminations.

Key features

• 1 to 4 loops, one card supplied: A dedicated 1-4 loop control panel with one loop card fitted as standard; each additional loop needs one further loop driver card.
• Deep enclosure: Steel IP30 enclosure in RAL7035, measuring 475 mm high by 450 mm wide by 190 mm deep, with 30 top, 11 top-rear and 3 bottom 20 mm cable-entry knockouts.
• Battery capacity to 45Ah: The deep enclosure takes internal standby batteries from 24 V 4Ah up to 24 V 45Ah, against 18Ah in the standard box.
• Apollo and Hochiki protocol: This order code is the Apollo (XP95 and Discovery) and Hochiki ESP variant; Apollo Soteria, Argus Vega and Nittan Evolution are separate order codes.
• EN 54 approved: Approved to EN54-2:1997 +AC:1999 +A1:2006 and EN54-4:1997 +AC:1999 +A1:2002 +A2:2006, with EN 54-13:2017 listed by Advanced as pending.
• 200 zones per panel: Supports up to 200 fire zones per panel by default, which is what allows full EN54 compliance without additional hardware, and up to 2000 zones across a network.
• Outputs on board: Four 1 Amp programmable sounder circuits and two 1 Amp 30 V AC/DC programmable relays, expandable to four relays using the MXP-507, plus a 24 V 500 mA auxiliary supply.
• Inputs and controls: One monitored programmable input on board, eight volt-free programmable key switch inputs, and a keypad carrying Navigation, Reset, Mute, Silence, Resound and Evacuate plus four programmable push buttons.
• Networking and monitoring: True peer-to-peer networking to other MxPro 5 and MxPro 4 panels, remote terminals, BMS or graphics. That runs over an optional MXP-503 standard or MXP-509 fault-tolerant network card. An on-board Ethernet port carries AdvancedLive in the UK and Ireland.
• Commissioning tools: Auto-learn, loop detection and an on-board scope facility, a 5000-entry event and diagnostic log plus 500 fire events, and programming from the keypad or from PC-NeT-022 configuration software over USB or RS232.

Use cases

This is a commercial addressable panel for schools, offices, care settings, retail and light industrial sites. It also suits any scheme that starts on one loop and is expected to grow, since loops two to four are added later on cards rather than by replacing the panel. The deep enclosure earns its place in three cases.

The first is where the standby calculation demands batteries larger than 18Ah. The second is where option cards are going in behind the front plate. The third is where a lot of field cabling has to be terminated in the box.

Where none of that applies, the standard-depth order code is the cheaper and shallower choice. This variant is supplied for Apollo XP95/Discovery and Hochiki ESP devices, so confirm the detector protocol on the drawings before ordering. Treat the Nittan and Argus Vega panels as genuinely different products rather than options.