Planning The Installation; Standard Panel; Installation Manual - GE Security Concord 4 Installation Manual

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Installation Manual

Planning the installation

This section describes system capabilities to help you get familiar with the system. Appendix A,
planning sheets provides planning sheets with tables that let you record the hardware and programming
configuration of the system. Fill in all necessary information ahead of time to help prepare for system
installation.

Standard panel

Table 3 shows the standard panel capabilities.
Table 3. Panel capabilities
Capabilities
Zones
Partitions
Bus devices
User codes
The following describe the basic panel (out-of-box) hardware capabilities for all panels.
• Power: Input for an AC step-down, plug-in style transformer.
• Auxiliary power output: Output that supplies 9 to 14 VDC with up to 1 amp for bus devices and
hardwired detectors, such as smoke and motion detectors.
• Bus A and B: Input and output that provides communication between bus devices and the panel.
• Siren driver: Output that can drive an 8-ohm load and provides intrusion and fire alarm sounds for
partition 1. Six watts maximum.
• 2 onboard outputs: Can be used to activate other signaling devices based on system events.
• Out 1 is a 9 to 14 VDC source output, limited to 1.0 amp max.
• Out 2 is an open-collector output, rated up to 14 VDC, 300 mA max.
• Microphone input: Input used for 2-way audio when used in conjunction with the Interrogator 200
audio verification module.
• 8 supervised hardwired zones: Inputs for various hardwired detectors. Zone 8 can be set up in
programming to accept 2-wire smoke detectors. It sources 9 to 14 VDC, 90mA max.
• Built-in RF receiver: Allows use of up to 96 or 32 319.5 MHz. crystal and/or SAW learn mode
wireless sensors and touchpads.
• Phone line connection: Allows panel to communicate with central monitoring station and/or pagers.
Note: The total current sourced from all terminals cannot exceed 1 amp.
Concord Express v4
32
2
16
16
Concord4/Concord Commercial v4
96
6
16
230
System