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We can not stress often enough as
too how important this LS-E120HWCP20CB is on a repeat lightning damaged fire
alarms. If you look at the diagram,
without this device, low voltage surge suppression are useless with parallel
protectors “by any name brand”. This
insures that you have enough impedance on the phase and neutral line to
create an alternative path way for your low voltage surge suppression devices
to work properly. More interesting is the fact that it also prevents reverse
polarity and no other product can do this. The way it is designed helps you
maintain UL 864 requirements. A rUL listed or din rail can never offer
that. The clamping voltage of this
in-series device is incredibly tight.
198 volts at peak voltage on average. On a wet day normal peak
operating voltage is 170 volts. On a
extremely dry day, 238 volts. Testing
of this nature is done according to IEEE-C62.41 Cat. B3/C1 at 6000 volts @
3000 amps for performance testing. This product is a replacement for the old
outdated E/Clips 120HWCP20CB Surge
Suppression that is no longer supported. Professional Engineering
Specification documentation:
PE Specs |
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FA 30 VB (Class B) (24Volt to 28 Volt) zones and intelligent
loops, Dry contacts, & between buildings FA 30VB (-) High speed data lines
with multiple connections between buildings on the RS485 (only) FA 30 VA (Class A) (24 to 28 Volt)
zones FA 60 VB (Class B) (above 34.4V)
zones and intelligent loops & between buildings FA 60VA (Class A) (above 34.4 V)
zones FA 90VB (Audio) |
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FA 30 BH (24V to 28 Volts @ or over
2 amps of current) Horns Strobes, & power for loop circuits. FA 60NC (above 34.4V @ or over 2 amps of current) Horns Storbes,
& power for loop circuits Rare cases: FA 30BH L/C |
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DLTTOS200V You need two for you RJ31X, one for
primary phone line and one for backup line. |
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Spike Block-1 UL listed and is for the power
ground or case ground. The only UL
listed device in the world that will eliminate ground loop problems caused by
lightning that causes ground faults or
false alarms. This is actually a notch filter and
will not allow anything below 50 Hrtz (pumps, motors, HVAC noise and impulses
to feed back loop into the panel. It will not allow anything above 2.2
GHz or the lightning spectrum to enter
the panel from the ground side, of either the case ground or AC power ground.
Think of it as a check valve, and only allows grounding one way. Excellent for use in the Lightning Capital
of North America or anywhere else with a high epidemic of lightning problems. |
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Power Quality Engineering
for Fire Alarm Panels. Fire Control Instruments, Gamewell, Hochiki and 21
manufactures of fire alarm panels recommend Stormin Protection Products
E/Clips Surge Suppression and the new Spike Block that eliminates ground
strikes and false alarms. See on Line
Lightning Demo: |
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If you are currently
using surge suppression on a fire alarm panel, an it is not working, then we
have an opportunity to prove that in-line series circuit design protection
with three stages is the only way to go.
We will never recommend parallel surge suppression for any security
devices. It would be impossible for
this product to not work. It will
cost a lot more then what you are use to, but your chances of success or
achieving 100% protection is more likely to do so with this technology. We do not have to advertise this product,
tech support by most of the Fire alarm manufactures will recommend Stormin
Protection Products. |
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Fire
Alarm Surge Suppression Recommended by all 23 Manufactures |
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To contact us: |
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For Notifier, Firelite, Faraday, HOCHIKI and FCI Panels LS-E120HWCP20CB (AC Power Protection) Spike Block-1 (Ground Filter ) FA 30VB (zones, dry contacts and Intelligent loops) FA 30BH (Bells, Horns, Extenders and Strobes) Edwards Systems Technology, Simplex, Siemens, Game
well, Fire Com LS-E120HWCP20CB (AC Power Protection) Spike Block-1 (Ground Filter ) FA 30VB (zones, dry contacts and Intelligent loops) FA60VB (zones, dry contacts and Intelligent loops) FA60NC (Bells, Horns, Extenders and Strobes) DLTTOS200V Need (2 units) for RJ31X’s |
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120HWCP20CBPLC New Product Combo unit: Power Guard &
120HWCP20CB in one unit. |
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120HWCP20CBPLC *New Product* Back up Generator issues. This problem has grown
considerably in the last ten years. When the manufactures stopped using
linear power supplies this problem has escalated big time. The only cure was
to use a True-Online UPS. The cost was
so prohibitive. This invention was
designed primarily for this and also it deals with other heavy loads that
effect the 20 amp circuit. |
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Identify the problem Places known for this problem: Nursing homes, Assisted Living Facilities,
911 centers, or any establishment that has a back up generator. The above listed places are the most well
known of all places with these issues. In this country I have sold the most:
Texas, specifically Houston and coastal areas, Florida, Oil Rigs in the Gulf
Coast (heavy load issues), Louisiana, North and South Carolina. Unlike the
items below, this unit is not UL listed, but complies with UL. This smart
surge suppression design is identical to the 120HWCP20CB, but it has a brain
and electromechanical switch. It watches the power if the voltage drop and
the current rises, it switches off the power as soon as the power becomes
normal, (3 minutes), it allow the power to go through. The fire alarm system
never sees the power quality power.
Originally built as a request by Secutron USA, but in time most of
them were installed on Gamewell equipment. There were many installs on other
name brands, but these two name brands have used this device very
successfully. On Oil Rigs all name brands because heavy loads is primarily
the issues. |
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Complies with UL requirements |
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PTS/World Energy/Eclips, E/Clips,
Space Age and other names associated to E/Clips logo no longer exists, nor
any of these similar products are supported since 2009. We are aware of a Space Age Technology in
MA that have adopted name of EClips logo and sell green surge suppression.
But that technology is not who we support nor provide the engineering
support. We have 30 years experience trouble shoot fire alarm panels for
lightning protection, surge suppression or power quality specifically for our
design. I do not recommend Space Age
E/Clips technology for fire alarm panels because in most cases it violates
UL864 utilizing DinRail and parallel application inside a fire alarm panel
like all the other competitors.
However if you are competing with ADI represented lack luster
products, than at least they are a better alternative so I didn’t completely
throw them under the bus. We also sell
the Green E/Clips products with reservation based on request. These facts are
indisputable because I should know. I used to work for PTS and invented the
first concept of in-series design for
fire alarms even before ADI represented surge suppression products. Mr. John
O’Brian (RIP), Design Engineering for PTS,
I give a lot of credit for taking my ideas through UL and helping me
make this style of technology as the only product in the industry that
actually works for fire alarms. I loved the way he said it when I present him
with a new idea, “I don’t think it will work” but he does it anyway. What a
success it was. Today, I take it one
step further. With the help of Ken Fleetwood and friends we have invented an
even better product which prevents reverse polarity...and we are the only one that figured it
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The question that is always asked of me, why doesn’t parallel surge
suppression work inside fire alarm panels?
It started in 1980, the introduction
of substrates as we know it called surface mount technology. Very tiny, low capacitance technology that
by all accounts cannot withstand static discharges. However this technology can be molded to
replace many high capacitor based technology such as transistors, diodes and
resisters. They are so tiny that a
chip can be made, where as a PC board back in he day would take up a
room. Technology has evolved, but
lay-mans understanding and respect for this technology is lagging behind. The
machine in all industry is run by bean counters and business men with very
little engineering skills so that is why the respect for any technology still
remains an all time low. 1992, ADA
required that Fire alarms batteries must run longer, and the current designed
of fire alarms did not make that possible.
The CCTV industry already have adopted SMT technology so it proved
that it could be done, so the fire alarm industry followed suite. At that time the owner of FCI refused to
change out it’s linear power supply because the testing on that , his power
supply could withstand 6000V @ 500 amps, and only one other company could do
that and that was Caddi Caddex. After Honeywell and GE bought them out that
too soon change. Not just them but the
entire industry overnight, got rid of the linear power supplies and went to
switch mode power supplies which are a diode array design. It saved a lot of
power but the sacrifice was too great.
For lightning, that was extremely transparent and nothing could stop
it now. The fact is a 500 pf switch
mode power supply would blowout before the 1200 pf parallel AC surge suppressor even came on.
An engineer knows that the capacitance of a diode is far less than a
transformer. But remember lay people have no clue and extremely upset. The question still remains, why do
parallel protection not work on fire alarms.?
Back to SMT technology. When
they shrunk the PC boards, so did the capacitance rating of the boards, and
that 3 watt back to back diode was no match for ground faults on case ground. So early on, that is the main reason why
false alarms were so prevalent in 1993 to the present day. That in itself is
an entirely new rabbit trail of a story that developed Fire Marshals handing
out $50.00 tickets and other newly generated ordnances to deal with false
alarm epidemic. When you install a parallel surge suppression inside a fire
alarm panel, generally you pick case ground for termination. If and when a unit works, you can have
minimum of 1200 watts of power injecting directly in to a 3 watt diode
monitoring the ground fault circuit.
It doesn’t take a math wizard to figure this one out. However this
practice has been going on for...like for ever. The funny thing is, putting
surge suppression inside a fire alarm panel (null and voids) the UL of a
panel according to UL864. Remember I
said something about Linear power supplies, well it was the last hope for
parallel AC surge suppression until the introduction of switch mode power
supplies. Linear power supplies
actually isolated the phase and natural with a 1” gap between coils and
represented a high impedance. However
a feed back loop up case ground was still a threat. The Linear power supplies did do one thing,
insure that any lightning issues through phase and natural would rarely make
it past the AC power which obviously saved the panel 2/3rds of the time. Looking at everything I have written
here, a new kind of technology needs to be introduce to the market that will
create an alternated path way for lightning to bi-pass the systems especially
when NEC code 250.94 is completely ignored usually by the initial design lay
out by means of customary designs practiced for the past 30 years or
more. You know, what they did 30 plus
years ago worked for old technology, but not for new technology as we see it
today. That is why…...Parallel surge
suppression do not work and never will in the future for fire alarm panels. Our attempt to put some muscle back
into your panel without sacrificing performance of your fire alarm panel will
cost more. All UL 497 a & b surge
suppression even if not tested on fire alarm panels are designed to be used
on fire alarm panels so say UL and their test documents. So even if we are
not mentioned in any documentation generated by 26 fire alarm manufactures here
in the USA, ours at least do not violate UL864 and comply with the right to
be installed in all fire alarm systems. Bare in mind, much that is
recommended by manufactures, even they can never get it right because
obviously they do not make lightning and surge suppression for fire alarms a
science. That is why most fire alarm
tech support departments always recommend us.
We usually get the worst cases since 1992, and even from time to time
consult with their own engineers on staff, regarding capacitance issues on
SMT technology. We have increased our
site surveys from once a year if possible in 1992 to an average of 20 to 30
times a year. That in itself tells you
a lot, what seems to be impossible to fix, we can figure it out. This is our un-comparable specialty. |
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LS-E120HWCP20CB
New and
improved product Replaces
E/Clips 120HWCP20CB |
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LS-E |
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By 2015 maybe 2016, Fire Marshals
will be adopting NFPA-72 2010/13 as part of the new requirements that all
fire alarm installers must adhere to and this is no acceptation for VOIP
systems. |
