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Training

Apollo offers a series of FREE one-day training courses for its customers. The courses cover the topics below. To view the current training schedule and book your place, please click here.

Module 1: Detection Principles &Device Selection

  • Ionisation smoke detector
  • Optical smoke detector
  • Rate-of-rise heat detector
  • Multisensor smoke detector
  • Carbon Monoxide (CO) detector
  • Selecting the right device
  • Heat detector selection chart

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Module 1.1: Carbon Monoxide (CO) Fire Detection - NEW!

  • Established detection principles
  • A new detector - carbon monoxide (CO) 
  • Comparative fire tests
  • Further fire tests
  • Where to use CO detectors
  • Where not to use CO detectors
  • Discovery CO Fire Detectors

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Module 2: Conventional Detector Operation

  • Quiescent and alarm characteristics
  • Control panel sense windows
  • Conventional products
  • Series 65 features
  • Relay base operation and applications
  • Detector head removal systems
  • Sav Wire system

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Module 2.1: AlarmSense

  • Sensing of Alarms
  • Activation and powering of sounders
  • Differentiation between manual call points and detector alarms
  • Priority/non-priority alarms
  • Multiple alarms in a zone
  • Disablement of manual call points
  • Disablement of detectors
  • Sensing of zone wiring faults
  • Sensing the removal of a detector
  • Compliance with Standards
  • Cable requirements

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Module 2.2: Orbis

  • Product range
  • Features of range
  • Optical smoke detectors
  • Multisensor smoke detectors
  • Heat detectors
  • Choosing the correct class of heat
  • Installing Orbis detectors
  • Orbis detector LED status
  • StartUp
  • FasTest
  • DirtAlert
  • Relay base
  • Orbis adaptor

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Module 3: Analogue Addressable Principles

  • Analogue value from detectors and A–D conversion
  • Control panel thresholds
  • Drift compensation and variable sensitivity
  • Addressability

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Module 3.1: XP95

  • Smoke and heat detectors
  • Manual call points
  • Isolators
  • Interfaces — description
  • Interfaces — selection and applications
  • Beam Detectors
  • Flame Detectors

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Module 3.2: Discovery

  • Ionisation detector modes
  • Optical smoke detector modes
  • Heat detector modes
  • Multisensor detector modes
  • Carbon Monoxide (CO) detector modes
  • User bytes and other stored data
  • Conventional alarm facility
  • Flashing LED
  • Remote test feature
  • Drift compensation
  • Choice of detector type
  • Choice of response modes

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Module 3.3: XPlorer

  • Smoke and heat detectors
  • Manual call points
  • Isolator
  • Switch monitor
  • Output unit
  • Sounder

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Module 3.4: AV Alarm Devices - NEW!

  • Series 65 sounder base
  • Ancillary base sounder
  • Intelligent base sounder
  • Integrated base sounder
  • Sounder beacon base
  • Beacon base
  • Loop-powered beacon
  • Open-area sounders
  • Open-area sounder beacons
  • Intelligent open-area products
  • Discovery sounder/beacon range
  • Group addressing

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Module 3.5: XPander

  • Market situation
  • Competitors
  • Applications
  • Strategy
  • Features for European compliance
  • System
  • Detectors
  • Manual call points
  • Sounders and sounder beacons
  • Loop interface
  • Approvals
  • Site surveys
  • Documentation

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Module 4: Intrinsically Safe Equipment - Coming Soon!

  • What is intrinsic safety?
  • Orbis intrinsically safe smoke and heat detectors
  • Conventional barriers and IS circuits
  • XP95 IS manual call points
  • XP95 protocol translators and barriers
  • XP95 IS circuit design

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Module 5: Service, Test &Maintenance

  • False alarm reduction
  • Recommended maintenance programme
  • What can Apollo offer?
  • Ionisation detectors
  • Disposal of ionisation detectors
  • Date codes
  • Solo products
  • Regulatory Reform of the Fire Safety Order

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