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Construction Documents <br />20033 <br />Orange County Europa Center <br />28 4600 - 6 FIRE DETECTION AND ALARM <br />a. All programming or editing of the existing program in the system shall be achieved <br />without special equipment and without interrupting the alarm monitoring functions of <br />the fire alarm control panel. <br />B. Fire Alarm Control Units: Analog, addressable type; listed, classified, and labeled as suitable <br />for the purpose intended. <br />C. Master Control Unit shall have the following features: <br />1. The system shall be addressable type, with 24vdc nominal operating voltage. <br />2. Upload/Download to PC Computer <br />3. Charger Rate Control <br />4. Drift Compensation <br />5. Automatic Day/Night Sensitivity Adjust <br />6. Device Blink Control <br />7. Pre-alarm Control Panel Indication <br />8. Trouble Reminder <br />9. NFPA 72 Smoke Detector Sensitivity Test <br />10. System Status Reports <br />11. Periodic Detector Test <br />12. Alarm Verification, by device, with tally <br />13. Non-Alarm Module Reporting <br />14. Block Acknowledge <br />15. Smoke Detector Maintenance Alert <br />16. Control-By-Time <br />17. The control panel shall be capable of printing historical data and device parameters and <br />shall include all equipment necessary to produce printouts, including an external printer <br />and shall be U.L. listed as meeting the NFPA 72 sensitivity testing and maintenance <br />requirements without the need for manually removing and testing each smoke detector. <br />The control panel shall provide a display and a printed list of these sensitivity <br />measurements as a permanent record of the required sensitivity testing. The system shall <br />also annunciate a trouble condition when any smoke detector approaches 80% of its alarm <br />threshold due to gradual contamination, with an annunciation of the location of the smoke <br />detector requiring service. If any specialized equipment must be used to program any <br />function of the smoke detector devices, then one must be furnished as part of the system. <br />18. The system shall perform time based control functions including automatic changes of <br />specified smoke detector sensitivity settings. <br />19. System shall provide as a feature an alternate signal processing algorithm to verify the <br />presence of smoke. The algorithm shall be selectable during system programming. The <br />total effective delay created by the verification algorithm shall not exceed 60 second. <br />D. Central Processing Unit: The Central Processing Unit (CPU) shall communicate with, monitor, <br />and control all other modules within the control panel. Removal, disconnection or failure of any <br />control panel module shall be detected and reported to the system display by the CPU. <br />1. The CPU shall contain and execute all control-by-event (including ANDing, ORing, <br />NOTing, CROSSZONEing) programs for specific action to be taken if an alarm condition is <br />detected by the system. Such control-by-event programs shall be held in non-volatile <br />programmable memory, and shall not be lost with system primary and secondary power <br />failure. The CPU shall also provide a real-time clock for time annotation of all system <br />displays. The Time-of-Day and date shall not be lost if system primary and secondary <br />power supplies fail. <br />2. Digitized electronic signals shall employ check digits or multiple polling. In general a single <br />ground or open on any system signaling line circuit or initiating device circuit shall not <br />cause system malfunction, loss of operating power or the ability to report an alarm. <br />3. The CPU shall be capable of being programmed on site without requiring the use of any <br />external programming equipment. Systems that require the use of external programmers <br />or change of EPROMs are not acceptable. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: ECCAC5A0-6CC8-4B37-8AD3-89D69F0AE1AE