Introducing the Pertronic F220 Pertronic Industries is pleased to introduce the New Zealand version of its flagship product, the Pertronic F220 analogue addressable fire alarm control panel. The F220 has been an enormous success in Australia. The New Zealand version will go into production during the first quarter of 2020. The F220 is the successor to the Pertronic F120A. Our new panel has been successful in small, medium, and large Australian fire systems. Three years after its introduction, Australian installers and end-users still get excited about the F220’s superior information presentation and processing capabilities. Designed around a powerful, cutting-edge RISC micro-processor and a large colour LCD display, the Pertronic F220 makes light work of tasks that are too hard for even the best of yesterday’s fire alarm panels. Information and controls right where they’re needed The F220 provides rapid access to exactly the right information and controls. Every fire panel, remote display unit, and remote control unit in the F220 product range has a big, seven-inch, 800 x 480 pixel colour display. Colour-coded default screens clearly show the system status at a glance, even from a distance. There’s no need to go right up close to the panel; There’s no need to drill down through menus. Wide colourcoded bars on the default screens identify the status. The green bars top and bottom of the F220’s Normal screen show that the system is free of alarms, defects, and isolations. Yellow bars indicate that one or more fire system devices have been isolated. Red bars on the screen mean Alarm. Events such as alarms, defects, and device isolations are presented in well-organised, logical formats such as the Isolate List and Alarm List screens. And to make it easy to deal with practical situations, each screen provides instant access to relevant control functions. For example, from the list of isolated devices, you can reenable any device with a couple of key-strokes. Installers often report that the F220’s Defect List screen saves time when testing a new system. This organised list makes it easy to find and fix problems such as detectors not properly plugged in. The Alarm List presents all the alarms in chronological order. This simplifies the potentiallystressful task of dealing with multiple alarms. Advanced processing power These capabilities are possible because of the F220’s advanced information-processing power. The panel master-board has a 32-bit advanced RISC machine (ARM) running at 456 megahertz, a Linux operating system, and more than 400 megabytes of total storage. The F220/Net2 network card has its own 32-bit ARM 18
Issue 18
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September 2019
A front service Pertronic F220 with zone index for the New Zealand fire system market.
