Course A

This course provides an introduction to those who have started working in the fire safety sector in the UK. It also acts as a refresher for those needing to be updated on recent industry changes. Course A covers our basic services / product ranges: Conventional Series 65 and Addressable XP95.

N.B. the sessions on September 4th and November 20th are to be held at Oprema, full address below. All other sessions will be held at Apollo HQ, PO9 1JR.

Oprema Ltd
Unit 11 & 12 Eastgate Business Park
Wentloog Avenue
Cardiff
CF3 2EY

Detection Principles and 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.

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.

Analogue Addressable Principles

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

XP95

Smoke and heat detectors
Manual call points
Isolators
Interfaces - description
Interfaces - selection and applications
Beam detectors
Flame detectors.

AV Alarm Devices

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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