Manchester R (City of Calgary)

System Specifications
FACP: Mircom FX-2000 FACP Location: Main Entrance System Type: Addressable System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VFWR System Coding: Temporal Strobes Synchronized: No Date of last known Upgrade: 2016 Year Opened: 1972

Manchester is a City of Calgary operations centre located at 651 25 Avenue Southeast, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This page will cover Building R, which is part of the roads division. The building was built in 1972, and the fire alarm system was upgraded in 2016.

System Specifications (2016-present)

FACP

The building is protected by a Mircom FX-2000 addressable fire alarm system. The panel is located in the main entrance vestibule. The system runs Mircom’s CLIP addressable protocol, and the system coding is temporal.

Notification Appliances

All notification appliances are Mircom “Select-A-Horn/Strobe” FHS-340R horn/strobes (red, wall-mount, set to electromechanical/15cd).

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations are Mircom MS-401AD addressable single-action pull stations.

Automatic Detection Devices

There are Mircom MIX-2251APA addressable photoelectric smoke detectors in some areas.

There are Mircom MIX-5251APA addressable 135°F fixed-temperature heat detectors in most areas.

All aforementioned detectors are mounted on System Sensor B210LPA bases.

There are System Sensor DNRA duct smoke detector housings with Mircom MIX-2251APA addressable photoelectric heads on all air handling units.

Modules

There are Mircom MIX-M500MA addressable monitor modules supervising the sprinkler system’s tamper and flow switches.

There are Mircom MIX-M500RA addressable relay modules for HVAC shutdown.

There are System Sensor M500XA isolator modules on the SLC.