Notification Appliance

Clicking the Notification Appliance icon from the Alarm Tools toolbar or Notification Appliance from the Tools menu equips the cursor to place bells, strobes (left image), horns or chimes (right image) into the drawing field.

Notification appliances' symbols correspond with notification types: Lines surround strobes to denote their visibility, music notes symbolize chimes, triangles represent horns, and circles represent bells.

To access its Default Properties Page, double-click the Notification Appliance symbol in the drawing. Alternatively, right-click on the symbol and choose Properties from the pop-up menu.

Default Properties Page

Users can select the notification appliance by its part number via the top drop-down menu. Notice how the Part Number corresponds to the choices made in the Select by Criteria section. Alternatively, filter the Sub-Category variables to locate the desired part.

Note also the Candela, Decibel, Wattage and Voltage type fields will correspond with the chosen part number. Some of these drop-down menus may not populate, depending on the type of notification appliance.

Modify the Symbol Label in the corresponding field below the middle list control table.

Appliances with wattage, decibel, or candela values will display toward the bottom of the main Properties Page.

Coverage Display

Users modify coverage area displays via the main Properties Page. Once the Coverage Display dialog appears on the left, users can edit the fields as needed for the device. By default, each is set to 'None,' or no coverage display. For emphasis, the left image shows an option enabled in each section.

Click here to view an initiator's (detector's) coverage display.

Strobe and Speaker Coverage Displays

Strobe Wall and Ceiling Coverage

Strobe coverage areas offer three options: None, Wall, or Ceiling.

Note how the strobe's wall coverage area displays in the left image when its coverage size is set to 20'-0,20'-0.

Strobe Ceiling Coverage

In the image above right, the strobe's ceiling coverage area displays as a rectangle surrounding the device.

Speaker Wall and Ceiling Coverage

A Speaker's coverage area display offers three options: None, Wall or Ceiling.

For those opting for wall coverage, the speaker's coverage distance and dispersion angle are automatically calculated.

In the left image, note how the decibel levels decrease with increasing distance from the speaker. The speaker's wall coverage area resembles a sector of a circle.

For ceiling coverage, multiple circles would surround the speaker with differing 'radii,' again illustrating decreasing decibel levels with increasing distance from the speaker. Imagine the above image displaying three complete circles, with three 'radii' at 86 dB, 80 dB, and 74 dB.

Cut Sheet

Click the Cut Sheet button to open an Adobe Reader .pdf file with the manufacturer's specs.

Detail Drawing

Click the Detail Drawing button to assign manufacturers' detail drawings to the device, if applicable.