Alarm Systems Overview and Components

What are alarm sirens rated in?

What is the range of the supervising current in a Class B fire alarm circuit?

Modern alarm systems may utilize window screens which will provide alarm protection with the window open. This method utilizes a screen that has fine insulated wires running through it in parallel paths about __________ to __________ cm apart.

What does a Class B detection circuit in a fire alarm system contain?

There are normally four conditions to be considered in a fire alarm system. They are a normal condition, a manual pullstation condition, a trouble condition, and a supervisory condition.

What condition is created when a short circuit occurs across the conductors in a Class B signal circuit?

Which type of smoke alarm is the best type to install in a residence?

What is the voltage of the signal through the traveller conductor putting other smoke alarms into the alarm status?

What does a microwave motion detector measure?

What condition is created when a short circuit occurs across the conductors in a Class B detection circuit?

What does a Class B signal circuit in a fire alarm system contain?

Any time that a terminal or splice is opened and the supervisory current of an alarm system is interrupted, the alarm will be activated and an alarm condition will be indicated at the control panel.

Output devices for a basic residential alarm system include?

What is one of the major causes of false alarms in regards to motion detectors?

Earlier models of motion detectors were developed with principles similar to?

Passive Infrared Detectors sense changes in?

A basic fire alarm system must contain at least _______ components.

Rollerball contacts are more or less expensive to produce over magnetic reed switches?

Which Code states that smoke alarms must be installed in residential units?

How can each area of protection (zone) of an alarm system be programmed?

Which of the following is an advantage of a photoelectric smoke alarm?

If there is an open in the conductors of a Class B signal circuit, what condition will the fire alarm system be in?

A residential security alarm system is normally a __________ circuit.

The Class B circuit is one continuous path connecting all field devices together and terminating with what type of device?

Which of the following devices would be considered an internal intrusion sensing device?

Generally, what is the purpose of strobe lights when utilized as part of a security system?

Where does a Security System Central Processing Unit, under normal conditions, receive its electrical power?

Match the 4 conditions of a fire alarm system:

Intrusion sensing devices are divided into what two categories?

What is a magnetic reed switch?

Magnetic reed switches have a life cycle of up to __________ operations.

What is generally used for sealed windows where entry to the frame is restricted?

What are used for doors and higher security areas to make contact tampering less likely?

Glass break detectors work off the principles of?

An acoustic sound pattern detector or shatter switch should be mounted?

Dual technology and shock wave detectors combine what two methods?

PIRs are also known as?

How is the CPU of a residential alarm programmed?

A normally open loop goes into an alarm when a contact?

A CPU requires a ____v battery to maintain power during an outage.

Sirens are often installed in?

Residential alarms typically operate at a nominal voltage from __________ to __________.

What is a stand alone, battery operated, and electrically connected device?

The most common type of smoke alarm is an?

A basic fire alarm system must contain what components?

Field devices can be separated into what two categories?