Pertronic F220 Systems Protect Bupa Aged-Care Facilities
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New Zealand Edition
March 2021
Pertronic F220 Systems Protect Bupa Aged-Care Facilities
Top: Bupa’s Liston Heights Retirement Village in Taupo, which has
recently been fitted with a new F220 system. The village features 31
apartments and 70 villas. Residents enjoy community facilities such
as a library, communal kitchen, and multiple lounges.
Bupa is a diverse health and care group, who have 48 care homes and 34 retirement villages across NZ.
Pertronic has supplied Pertronic F220 analogue addressable As part of the Taupo upgrade, A Pertronic FireMap®
fire detection systems for the new aged-care facilities graphics workstation has also been installed at Bupa’s
currently under construction in Hamilton and Palmerston support office in Newmarket, Auckland. This will be
North. An F220 system has also recently been installed at progressively expanded to cover new and upgraded
Bupa’s Liston Heights facility in Taupo. installations across the country, to provide centralised
The aged care provider was pleased with the F220’s monitoring. FireMap will primarily be used to instantly
presentation of concise information and precise location highlight an alarm event at any of the connected care homes
details. The user-friendly screens and auto-scrolling alarm and villages to central facilities management, allowing for a
view make it quick and easy to assess alarm events. faster and more coordinated response. It will also display any
defects or abnormal events on a site’s fire alarm installation.
The F220 is great for staff who move between different In addition, FireMap can report on analogue smoke
facilities. Its 7-inch full-colour LCD display is common to all detector contamination levels, again allowing for improved
panels and remote displays in the F220 system. The Bupa management of maintenance.
village and care home team use these displays to reset
localised non-brigade calling smoke detector alarms from We are very pleased that Bupa has chosen Pertronic fire
remote locations, minimising any unnecessary disruption to alarm equipment and FireMap for its care homes and
residents. villages.
Upgrading Production Processes at Pertronic
Our surface mount assembly
lines were recently upgraded
with new automatic optical
inspection (AOI) machines. The
$200,000 machines automatically
create a three-dimensional
image of every surface-mount
component on every printed
circuit board assembled at our New Technology at Pertronic
Lower Hutt factory. Left: Three-dimensional model of a solder joint at one end of a surface mount resistor with
The AOI machines automatically contour lines (blue) automatically created by the AOI machine. The shape of the contour lines
provides a very precise assessment of solder joint quality.
read and verify component markings
Right: Automatic optical inspection machine on a surface mount production line at Pertronic
such as resistor values, integrated Industries.
circuit code numbers, and polarity
markings. They can highlight
missing or misaligned components. WHAT’S NEW IN FIREUTILS® V7.00
The three-dimensional images allow Version 7 of our fire system programming and analysis application has
the new AOI machines to accurately two new network maintenance and analysis tools.
assess solder joint shape and
volume. The Virtual NCU provides logged network systems. Pertronic support
in FireUtils® users with full control engineers can use information from
Automatic inspection and testing
and monitoring of a complete Net2 these logs to help solve tricky issues.
provides rapid feedback that allows
network system from an Ethernet- (Note that these logs are additional to
Pertronic engineers to fine-tune
connected laptop or personal the F220 history logs, which are also
product designs for optimum
computer. available in FireUtils®.)
quality. A recent example shows
how the AOI machines have been The FireUtils® System Log Copier Please contact your nearest Pertronic
integrated into quality engineering imports operating system logs from office for more information about the
at Pertronic Industries. During a connected F220 panels or Net2 F220 & Net2 version 7 release.
pre-production prototype run, an
AOI machine identified a solder
joint that contained less solder than Text Interfaces for Nurse Call, Printer, & Paging
our engineers would have liked.
We introduce new printer + pager interfaces for stand-alone F100A and
Information from the 3D models
F220 fire panels and the F220 Network system.
made it easy to optimise the design.
These interfaces export selected In F220 Network systems with v7
To make this type of improvement
fire system events as serial text, or later firmware, the text interface
without digital instrumentation may
suitable for printers, pagers, nurse-call consists of a dedicated Net2 Network
involve many hours of painstaking
systems, or other text-based systems. Card configured in FireUtils® as a
work. Our new machines can image,
Any event that appears on the Printer/Pager Node.
model and analyse a printed circuit
board with more than 600 individual system’s LCD display can be exported This interface can access any event
components in about 25 seconds. as text. The output message format on the network or any connected
is defined using an easily customised F220 fire panel. (When used as a
Many Firebits stories introduce
template. text interface, the Net2 Network card
new features that lead to better
For stand-alone fire panels, the SPIB- can not interface a fire panel to the
or more economical fire systems.
NCPP text interface is configured network.)
These practical improvements are
often underpinned by production using a PC terminal emulation app.
process upgrades. Our investment
in automatic optical inspection
is part of an on-going process
improvement programme that
ensures every Pertronic product is
the best it can be.
Front Page Banner Image:
Rob Fenton’s Boat. Text Interface for stand- Text Interface for F220 &
alone fire panels. Net2 Network systems.
Order code: SPIB-NCPP Order code: NET2CARD
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Pertonic Net2 Network Exceeds Draft
NZS 4512 Requirements
Independent testing has confirmed that the 133-node Pertronic F220
Network significantly exceeds network performance requirements
proposed for the new edition of NZS 4512.
The new draft New Zealand fire alarm faults, and routine system events.
standard requires an alarm signal to be Even under these extreme conditions,
transmitted between any two points on important control signals and alarms
the network in less than 20 seconds. reliably reached their destinations well
An IANZ-accredited laboratory tested within the 20 second requirement.
Remote Temperature Sensor
our 133-node network to AS 7240.13, The test network is now operational Order Code: 24/12ASWMPS-MK2-
which also specifies a maximum at our head office, where it serves REMTEMP
transmission delay of 20 seconds. as a test-bed for new features and The new Remote Temperature Sensor for the
The testing involved more than 300,000 upgrades. Pertronic 12A 24V PSU-300W power supply
simulated events such as fire alarms, helps ensure a more accurate measurement
of battery temperature, as the sensor can be
mounted very close to the battery.
PSBAS2220 Easily Converted to PSBAS2220-AT
The Pertronic Sounder Base used a DIP switch on the base of the
to be available in 2 versions: the PSBA2220, the unit becomes a
PSBA2220-AT producing an PSBAS2220-AT that generates the
alert tone, and the PSBA2220 NZS 4512:2010 alert tone when
producing an evacuation tone. the detector is in alarm.
We have redesigned the The Pertronic Sounder Base is
PSBA2220 so that it can easily be an analogue addressable plug-in
reconfigured as a PSBAS2220-AT. detector base with built-in sounder,
Because of this, the PSBA2220-AT which is compatible with all System
IP67 Weatherproof MCP
is no longer required, and has been Sensor 200 series analogue
Order Codes:
discontinued. By simply flicking addressable detectors. MCP: WCP3A-R000SG-K013-01IS
Hinged cover: PS200
The new IP67 (Weatherproof) Intrinsically
New Solenoid Interfaces for Critical Applications Safe Manual Call Point is for use in hazardous
areas. It complies with NZS4512:2010
Appendix E when a PS200 protective hinged
We introduce five new interfaces The ARCSI-M500 interface bolts on to
cover is fitted (sold seperately). The manual
for driving solenoids from analogue System Sensor M500 series control call point is activated by breaking the glass
addressable modules. modules, and is designed for high- element, which triggers an alarm.
Burkert 2509 vibration applications.
connector with the
cover removed.
Pertronic solenoid interfaces allow
Note the internal analogue addressable control modules
Pertronic solenoid to detect open-circuit faults including
interface.
disconnected or open-circuit solenoids,
Two new interfaces fit inside together with cabling short circuits.
Hirschmann GDM solenoid connectors:
One for Pertronic control modules, Order Codes:
ARCSI-M500, BUR-2509-10K,
and one for System Sensor control BUR-2509-47K, HIR-GDM-10K,
modules. Another two interfaces HIR-GDM-47K
fit inside Burkert 2509 solenoid Remote Heat Detector Kits
connectors. Order Codes: IHDBK-57C, IHDBLKK-125C
The new Pertronic Remote Heat Detector
Discontinued: The power supply 24/4SWMP has been discontinued, and Kits provide heat detection in areas with
replaced by the 24/4PSU. harsh environmental conditions such as high
ambient temperature. These new units have
The 2251CTLE-34-IV COPTIR detector has also been discontinued. We conformally coated PCBs, providing superior
recommend the 22051TLE-34-IV PTIR detector, which is the nearest alternative. moisture resistance and physical protection.
They replace the V Series - Encapsulated
Renamed: FireMap Ethernet Gateway (FMEGATE) is the new name and Indicating Heat Detector kits. Available with
57°C or 125°C alarm threshold.
product code for the Ethernet Gateway 2 (NET2GATE).
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PERTRONIC
Rob Fenton Retiring in June
ONLINE ORDERING IS Many of our readers will already know Rob Fenton, our Sales and
Marketing Manager. After more than 20 years of working with us at
QUICK & Petronic, Rob has announced that he will be retiring in June.
Rob joined Pertronic in 1999. His commented, “in learning more about
CONVENIENT. initial responsibility was to expand
the company’s customer base and to
other aspects of the fire protection
industry, not just the fire alarms sector.
Choose from our FULL promote the increased use of analogue I’m also grateful that the company has
product catalogue today. addressable fire alarm technology, goals allowed me to contribute some of my
which Rob feels have been achieved. time to these industry associations,
Pertronic now supply a very diverse which I hope in turn have benefitted
and supportive range of customers, from my involvement.”
and analogue addressable systems are “The past 22 years have gone all too
ORDER ONLINE NOW AT now the technology of choice for most quickly. I have developed some great
medium sized and all large installations. relationships working with people
pertronic.co.nz/tools/order-online-page/
With Pertronic headquartered in Lower right across the industry, and some
Hutt, Rob established an Auckland customers have become colleagues
office. This is now supported by more than clients. The journey has
four additional staff to better meet been very enjoyable.”
customers’ needs in the northern Rob and his wife will move to the Bay
Pertronic SOS enables our
market. of Islands later this year to be closer
customer support engineers
to link direct to your PC Like many people, Rob found it easy to grandchildren and for Rob to spend
and provide hands-on support.
to become passionate about fire more time on his other passions –
protection, and was able to use this boating and fishing.
passion to have a broader level of Managing Director (David Percy)
industry involvement in recent years. commented “Rob Fenton has been a
He has been President of the NZ Fire long standing member of our senior
Equipment Manufacturers’ Association management team and has made a
for five of the past six years, and has major contribution to the growth and
served as a board member of the Fire success of the company. We are all
Protection Association NZ for the same indebted to him. He leaves with our
period of time. very best wishes for an enjoyable
Download the app from “This has been beneficial to our retirement.”
pertronic.co.nz/tools/pertronic-sos
company and to myself” Rob
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Above: In his retirement, Rob looks forward to spending more time fishing on his boat.
Swansong is a NZ-made Bluewater 43 with an overall length of 45 feet.
Firebits is published by PERTRONIC INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Wellington: 17 Eastern Hutt Road, Wingate, Lower Hutt 5019 Auckland: 3 Gloucester Park Rd, Onehunga, Auckland 1061
Phone: +64 4 567 3229 Phone: +64 9 633 0226
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