Re: Silent Knight Fire Panels

["Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"MikeyB" <MikeBreslinNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Mike Sokoly" <secure15@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
>> recall
>>> > having to add a plug in communicator to it.
>>> >
>>> > I recall you had to add-on their atleast temporarily the
>> keypad/annunciator
>>> > 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.
>>
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> 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


So why the heck doesn't SK make a fire panel with a communicator?  They
price themselves above the market with their piggy back arrangement.  Their
prices look goood until you realize they don't come with a communicator.

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