Re: Silent Knight Fire Panels

[Mike Sokoly <secure15@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>>>Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>
>>>>Are all the standard Silent Knight panels sans communicator?
>>>>
>>>>The last one I installed was a 5104B several years ago, and I don't
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>>recall
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>>>>having to add a plug in communicator to it.
>>>>
>>>>I recall you had to add-on their atleast temporarily the
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>>keypad/annunciator
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>>>>to program it, but I don't recall having to add a communicator.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Bob,
>>>5208, 5207 and the Addressable 5700, 5808 and 5820 have built in 2-line
>>>DACTS
>>>2224, 4224,6324, conventional do not.
>>>5104 still has one
>>>Mike S
>>
>>Thanks Mike.  I was checking the Silent Knight website, and under
>>conventional Fire Panels they don't list the 5104, but when I check ADI'
>>on-line inventory they show 50 plus of them in stock so I know its still
>>in
>>circulation.
>>
>>Thanks again.
>>
>>Looks like a 5104 and a 5230 will fill the niche for me.
>>
>
>
> Bob,
>
> You seem like a nice guy who wants to do a job the right way.  Why would you
> want to use a communicator as a fire panel?  That's right, the 5104B is a 6
> channel communicator.  It doesn't have any controls.  God help you if you
> want to hook up signals to it.  How does the fire department or the building
> personnel tell which zone is in alarm?  Wait for the central station to
> call?  The keypad is ok for programming but almost useless as an
> annunicator/control.  We use the 5104B to monitor fire panels.  There is a
> very good reason Silent Knight's own web site doesn't list it under
> conventional fire panels.  They list it as a Fire Alarm Communicator.  That
> is what it should be used for.
>
> Thanks for letting me vent.  I have seen too many 5104's in warehouses and
> such, monitoring half a dozen waterflows, tampers, low temps, etc on 1 or 2
> zones.
>
> Mike Breslin
>
>
Excuse Me Breslin,
But the 5104 DOES have the capacity for 1 supervised or nonsupervised
Notification circuit on terminals 21 and 22 at 12VDC.
Mike S