Extinguishing System Overview - Siemens XC10 Series Operation

Extinguishing system overview

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Building Technologies
Fire Safety
An extinguishing system consists of the following components:
- Extinguishing control panel for evaluating, displaying and operating all functions
of an extinguishing area.
- Fire detectors for automatic activation of extinguishing.
- Manual release button(s) for manual activation of extinguishing.
- Emergency hold button(s) to hold the extinguishing process or emergency abort
button to cancel the initiated extinguishing release as long as the pre-warning
time is running.
- Mechanical blocking device.
- Alarm sounder(s) and optical signaling panel(s) for on-site alarm notification.
- Remote transmission facility for transmitting alarms and faults
- Control devices for closing doors and fire protection flaps and shutting down of
ventilation.
- Releasing elements for triggering the valves for activation of extinguishing.
- Devices to report the flooding and the loss of extinguishing agent.
Fig. 1 Extinguishing system overview
Extinguishing control unit
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