About Control Panels
Burglar alarm Control Panels are available in hard-wired and wireless (radio) versions. Hard wired control panels are further subdivided into Stand-alone and Blank End-station types.
All control panels have the following main features.
- Mains Power with backup recharge for the back-up battery
- NVM (Non-Volatile Memory - retains user settings when all power is removed, (can be reset to factory settings if required)
- Multiple detection zones - usually programmable as
- Entry/exit
- Intermediate
- Immediate
- Fire
- Personal Attack
- Auxiliary Power Supply
- Tamper circuits and tamper protected cases
- External sounder connections -
- Internal sounder connections - Control Panels with an on-board keypad have an inbuilt internal sounder, and most blank endstations do; the remote keypad has an internal low level sounder.
Some panels have extra features such as communicator outputs - for connection to a speech dialler, expandability - the addition of more detection zones using wired or wireless expanders.
Stand-alone Control Panels
Stand-alone Control Panels have an on-board keypad and have to be sited where they can be readily set/unset using their keypad. Also note that remote keypads can be used with most stand-alone panels; for example a stand-alone panel could be sited near the main entrance to the property and a remote keypad fitted in a bedroom, thus allowing the alarm to be operated from the bedroom at night. Remote keypads derive their power supply from the main Control Panel.
Blank End-stations
Blank endstations are operated using a Remote Keypad (RKP). The actual control panel can be sited wherever is convenient and secure.
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