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Professional
Instruction Leaflet
EI 175/176 Strobe and Vibration Smoke Alarm System for the deaf and hard of hearing
CONTROL PANEL
(With rechargeable battery
for one week standby)
EI 173
STROBE
9V SMOKE ALARM EI 100CD - IONISATION
(or EI 105CD - optical)
Important: Read all instructions before installation. This
leaflet must be left with the end user after installation.
Introduction
This leaflet describes the installation of the EI 175 and EI
176 Systems. If the system is not being used for some time the
control panel power switch must be off to prevent the battery
from being totally depleted and possibly damaged.
Do not
turn on until it is fully wired.
The systems consist of:-
EI 175 System EI 176 System
Smoke Alarm
(9V ionisation) (9V optical)
Control Panel
(with built-in strobe) (with built-in strobe)
Vibration Pad
The entire system is powered from the AC mains through a
low voltage transformer. In the event of a mains failure the re
chargeable battery in the control panel is capable of powering
the total system, including up to 12 interconnected smoke
alarms for one week, followed byatleastfour minutes alarm.
EI 100CD Smoke Alarm EI 105CD
EI 173 Control Panel EI 173
EI 174 Vibration Pad EI 174
1. Location and Installation
The Control Panel should normally be fixed such that the in
ternal strobe light can be seen from the bed and the vibration
pad can be placed under the pillow or mattress. It has to be
powered from the mains (230 VAC), so a suitable power point
or junction box must be available to which it can be perma
nently connected. The Smoke Alarm must be located as de
scribed in the Smoke Alarm instructions supplied. Cable (10
m) is supplied to connect between the Control Panel and the
smoke alarm. This can be extended up to 50 m (20 ohms
max.) with suitable low voltage cable if required. The smoke
alarm supplied with the system may be interconnected with
other
EI 9 Volt interconnect smoke alarms (EI 100C /105C
/103C only), up to a maximum of 12 smoke alarms in total.
Many dwellings require more than one smoke alarm for mini
mum protection. See the smoke alarm instruction leaflet for
detailed advice on, location, maintenance etc.
VIBRATION PAD
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Control Panel
The Control Panel should be permanently fixed to the wall
using the screws and plastic plugs enclosed. The screws
should be spaced 114 mm (4.5 in) vertically apart. The top
screw will be 27 mm (1.1 in) below the top surface of the control panel when installed. The screws (large heads) should be
screwed into the wall leaving a gap of approximately 4 mm
(0.15 in) under the head. Fit the keyhole slots on the back of
the control panel over the screw heads and slide the panel
down vertically into position.
The mains adaptor can be plugged into a socket. The socket
must not be used for any other equipment and it must always
be switched on.
It is preferable to permanently wirethe unit intoa mains junc
tion box. Wire according to the following instructions.
Warning: First remove the power to the circuit at the distri
bution board. If you are in any doubt about how to do this, get
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help from a qualified electrician.
Connecting to mains junction box.
The mains lead wires are colour coded as follows:
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brown: live
blue: neutral
The wire which is coloured blue must be connected to the
terminal/wire which is marked with the letter N or coloured
black.
The wire which is coloured brown must be connected to the
terminal/wire which is marked with the letter L or coloured red.
The apparatus is not to be earthed, so no connection is to be
made to terminals or wires marked with the letter E, the sym
bol or coloured green or green and yellow.
Bring the low voltage wiring to where the smoke alarm is to
be located. Route all wires neatly and securely along the walls
and ceilings.
Note: Turning off the power switch on the Control Panel
does not switch off the apparatus from the supply mains. The
switch removes the AC and battery power from the Control
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Panel, but the mains transformer remains connected to the
supply mains.
Vibration Pad
Plug the vibration pad into its locking socket on the control
panel. Place the vibration pad under the pillow or mattress. It is
important that the person in the bed can feel the vibration check it is sufficient to wake a person by lying on the bed and
pressing the test button on the control panel - see also
“Testing your system”. Some mattresses may not transmit
sufficient vibration and in these cases it should be fitted under
the pillow. Note: During testing, or in an actual alarm situation,
the pad pulses on and off for greater effect on sleepers.
Fig 2.
BLUE TO TERMINAL 1
Interconnecting Smoke Alarms
BLACK TO BLACK
TERMINAL BLOCK
(NOT SUPPLIED)
Smoke Alarm
1. Choose the smoke alarm mounting position following the
siting instructions in the smoke alarm leaflet and screw it into
position.
2. Connect the red (remove the small piece of insulating tape
first), yellow blue and black wiresfrom the control panel
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to the terminals marked “R”, “Y”, “BL” and “BK” respectively,
as shown in figure 1.
Fig 1.
Control Panel connection to Smoke
Alarm
RED
YELLOW
BLUE
BLACK
R
Y
BL
BK
TO CONTROL PANEL
2. Interconnecting Smoke Alarms
A maximum of eleven EI 100C/105C/103C nine volt
smoke/heat alarms may beinterconnected tothe
EI 105CD Master Smoke Alarm. A maximum of 250 metres
(820 feet) of signal/alarm cable can be used, (maximum resis
tance 50 ohm). Use only one Master Smoke Alarm per sys
tem.
Warning: Do not connect these Master Smoke Alarms to
any other type of
EI alarm, or to any other model produced by
another manufacturer. Doing this may damage the alarms and
could result in a shock or fire hazard.
When one alarm senses fire all interconnected units will
sound and the control panel will turn on the strobe light and vi
bration pad. The wiring between the smoke alarms requires
three cores, two for power and one for interconnect, as shown
in figure 2. (Four core signal/alarm cable is suitable for this and
the wiring colours illustrated in figure 2 assume this is being
used). The master smoke alarm unit is connected to the con
trol panel asdescribed above. Then all the rest of the units be
ing interconnected are wired to this master unit, as shown in
figure 2.
On the second unit cut off the battery snaps and connect the
battery wires to a two-way terminal block (not supplied). Con
nect the red and black power leads from the master unit to the
other side of this terminal block. Connect the “BL” terminal
from the master unit to the number 1 terminal on the second
unit, using the blue core wire. Note the yellow wire from the
control panel only goes to the master unit - it is not connected
to any of the other units. Wire the third and subsequent units,
up to a maximum of twelve, in the same way.
EI 100CD or
YELLOW WIRE
NOT CONNECTED
RED TO RED BATTERY CONNECTOR
SMOKE ALARM EI100C/EI105C
4 CORE WIRE
R
Y
BL
BK
TO CONTROL PANEL EI173
3. Testing your System
After Installation
1. Plug in the control panel mains adaptor (or turn on the AC
mains if it is connected to a junction box). Slide the power
switch on the side of the control panel to the “on” position.
Check the continuous green light on the control panel cover is
visible. The red light behind the the test button on the smoke
alarm will flash every 40 seconds to show the unit is receiving
power.
2. Press the test button on the smoke alarm. The smoke
alarm should sound and the red light behind the button will
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flash every second. After about 4 seconds the control panel
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will turn on the strobe light and the vibration pad. Two people
may be needed for this test. Interconnected smoke alarms,
where present, must also be tested.
3. Press the control panel test button. Check the vibration
pad is on and that the strobe is flashing.
Daily & Weekly Testing
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We recommend that you test your system weekly by press
ing all the smoke alarm test buttons and checking that the vi
bration pad and strobe light are operating. Also check at the
same time that the green power light is visible on the control
panel and that the red lights on all the smoke alarms flash ev
ery 40 seconds.
Check daily
that the vibration pad is in its correct position by
pressing the test button on the control panel.
Periodic Testing of Rechargeable Battery
The rechargeable battery takes about 20 hours to charge
from the control panel when it is first powered up. The panel
then maintains it in the fully charged state by continuous trickle
charge. In the event of a mains failure, the battery will power
the system, including up to 12 interconnected smoke alarms,
in standby for a week followed by at least 4 minutes alarm.
When the mains fails, the green light is extinguished and the
red light flashes rapidly on the control panel to indicate it is on
REMOVED
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