User manual

DF6000 - USER MANUAL

Installation

the panel should be installed in a clean, dry, reasonably well ventilated place, and not in direct sunlight.

Temperatures in excess of 40°C and below 5°C may cause problems, if in doubt consult Cooper Lighting

and Safety. The panel should be located away from any potential hazard, in a position where it is readily

accessible to authorised staff, and the ﬁre services, ideally on the perimeter of a building near a

permanent entrance. Mount the panel to the wall using the drill template provided. Do not drill through the

panel to the wall as dust will contaminate the circuitry.

Installation Guide

! Never carry out insulation tests on cables connected to electronic equipment.

! DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN TERMINAL CONNECTOR SCREWS

! Always use the correct type of cables speciﬁcally designed for the operation of ﬁre detection and

alarm circuits.

! Always adhere to volt drop limitation when sizing cables

! Always observe polarity throughout. Non colour coded conductors should be permanently identiﬁed.

! Screen continuity must be maintained throughout the entire loop circuit including at each junction

point and at each device, terminals are provided on each device to facilitate this.

! The screen should be earthed at the connection point provided at the DF6000 panel and not at any

other point. Both the loop start and the loop end must be connected to the appropriate earthing

points. Care must be taken to avoid connecting the screen to the earthed body of any metal devices,

enclosures or cable containment. The screen or drain wire of the loop cables should not be

considered as safety earth and therefore should not be connected to terminals marked with the earth

symbol, except at the panel, and should not be insulated with green and yellow sleeving.

! DF6000 utilises intelligent soft addressing technology to greatly simplify the installation and

commissioning processes. Once the system has been installed and the autolearn menu selected, the

DF6000 control panel will automatically scan the detection loops and allocate each device with an

address number corresponding with its position on the loop, this avoids the traditional need for

manual addressing of the system devices which is time consuming and provides a potential for error.

! It is of vital importance that accurate details are kept of the exact wiring route in order to determine

which address has been allocated to each device.

Section 1 - System Installation and Design