Product article for Electrical Contracting News’s fire equipment products feature, September 2002 High output industrial and Explosion Proof sounders, beacons and speech and tone sounders Released 11 July 2002 European Safety Systems specialises in high output 100 – 140dB(A) sounders, 15 and 25 Watt loudspeakers, 5 – 15 Joule beacons, combined sounder/beacon units and programmable speech and tone sounders for industrial, heavy duty, marine and hazardous environments. Designed and manufactured in the UK, the sounders and strobes all feature synchronised operation, ensuring that units on the same loop operate together when activated; they operate from both AC and DC power inputs and are all very efficient, generating high sound and light outputs with minimum current draw. The sounders have 32 different tones, including, for offshore use, the PFEER/UKOOA “General Alarm”, “Toxic Gas Alarm” and “Prepare to Abandon Platform” tones, as well as all commonly-used European tones. The BEx Explosion Proof units are ATEX/KEMA/CENELEC Certified, suitable for Zone 1 and 2, Gas Group IIC. A major benefit of the entire BEx family is the large termination area that accepts either one 4mm2 or two 2.5mm2 cables to make installation a very much easier process. The Appello speech and tone sounders use direct storage on silicon technology for outstanding message clarity; the message can be up to sixteen seconds in length and a choice of ten tones can introduce the message if required. *** Ends: body copy 200 words *** Notes to Sarah Payne. Text and scan supplied on CD. For further information contact: E2S contact: John Rattlidge Sales & Marketing Manager European Safety Systems Limited Impress House Mansell Road London W3 7QH Tel: + 44 (0)208 743 8880 Fax: + 44 (0)208 740 4200 sales@e-2-s.com www.e-2-s.com Agency contact: Nigel May Parkfield Parkfield House Damerham Hants SP6 3HQ Tel: + 44 (0)1725 518321 Fax: + 44 (0)1725 518378 Nigel_May@parkfield.co.uk www.parkfield.co.uk European Safety Systems specialise in the design and manufacture of a wide range of Intrinsically Safe and Explosion Proof high performance sounders, strobes and beacons, including unique intelligent annunciation and audio messaging devices employing direct analogue signal storage on silicon technology.