The Home Depot (South Edmonton Common)

System Specifications
FACP: Mircom FX-2000 FACP Location: Tool Rental Centre System Type: Single-Stage Addressable System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VFWR System Coding: Temporal? Strobes Synchronized: No Date of last known Upgrade: 2000s Year Opened: 1998

The Home Depot is a chain of home improvement stores. This particular store is located at 2020 101 Street Northwest, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The store opened in 1998, and the fire alarm system is partially original.

This was the very first store in South Edmonton Common, opening April 1998.

System Specifications (1998-present)

FACP

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

The FX-2000 replaced the original Notifier AFP-200 in the 2000s for some unknown reason.

Annunciators

There is a Mircom RAX-LCD annunciator in the main entrance vestibule.

Notification Appliances

All notification appliances are Notifier KMS-10-24VDC/P motor bells (10” gong) mounted on Wheelock RSSP-2415W strobe plates (15cd).

There is a Notifier KMS-10-24A motor bell (10" gong) in the rentals as a deficiency replacement; the strobe plate remains.

There is also a Notifier KMS-10-24VDC/P bell outside the garden centre.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations but one are Notifier NFM-950B conventional single-action pull stations, with Mircom MIX-M501MA addressable monitor modules attached to them.

There is a Mircom MS-401AD addressable single-action pull station at the Returns Entrance as a deficiency replacement.

Automatic Detection Devices

None noticed. The building is equipped with a sprinkler system.

Modules

There are Mircom MIX-M501MA addressable monitor modules supervising the sprinkler system’s tamper and flow switches.

EOLs

There are Notifier EOL-CR end-of-line resistor plates on all sprinkler and signal circuits.