AMA (South Edmonton)

System Specifications
FACP: Mircom FX-2000 FACP Location: Electrical Room System Type: Single-Stage Hybrid-Addressable System Line Voltage: 120VAC NAC Voltage: 24VFWR System Coding: Temporal? Date of last known Upgrade: 2000s Year Opened: 1989

Alberta Motor Association, best known as AMA is an registration and insurance company. This particular office is located at 10310 G. A. Macdonald Ave, Edmonton, AB, it is a 5-story office building. It was built in 1989, and opened in 1990. Most of the system is original with parts replaced as deficiencies occur.

System Specifications (1989-present)

FACP

The building is protected by a Mircom FX-2000 hybrid-addressable fire alarm system. The panel is located in the electrical room. The system runs Mircom's CLIP addressable protocol, and the system coding is likely temporal.

Annunciators

There is a Mircom RAX-LCD annunciator at the rear entrance vestibule.

Notification Appliances

Most notification appliances are Cerberus Pyrotronics BMD-1024C vibrating bells (10” gong).
There is an Amseco EXB-10-PV4 motor bell (10” gong) in Insurance as a deficiency replacement.
For outdoor notification, there is a Simplex 2901-9724 motor bell (10” gong) near the main entrance vestibule.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

All pull stations are Pyr-a-Larm MS-51B conventional single-action pull stations.

There is one Pyrotronics branded variant in the rear entrance.

Automatic Detection Devices

There are Mircom MIX-2251B addressable photoelectric smoke detectors in each elevator lobby and at the top of the elevator shaft, mounted to System Sensor B710LPA bases.

There are conventional duct smoke detectors behind the drop ceiling.

There is also a sprinkler system

Modules

There are Mircom MIX-M500RA addressable relay modules for elevator recall.

EOLs

There are Pyrotronics end-of-line resistor plates on all conventional and signal circuits.