Potter Announces the PAD200-PCD Multi-Sensor Detector

Potter Electric Signal Company of St. Louis, Missouri announces the release of the PAD200-PCD Photo/CO combo device.  By combining multiple elements of fire detection (smoke and CO) into a single device, the PAD200-PCD smoke/CO detector reduces cost and installation time. The PAD200-PCD detector is compliant with UL 268, UL 2075, and UL 521 7th Edition.  The PAD200-PCD detector uses high quality photoelectric smoke detection, and features drift compensation with a …

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Potter Adds Valcom Inc. as New Division

Potter Electric Signal Company, LLC announced today that Valcom, Inc., an established leader in voice paging, intercom and mass notification communications systems, has become a new division within Potter. Potter’s strategic investment in Valcom will allow the business to expand its engineering, marketing, and sales initiatives to drive growth in new applications. With this acquisition, Potter now offers a portfolio that covers the broadest range of emergency communication systems …

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Potter Announces Integrated Voice Systems

Announcing the release of Potter's Integrated Voice System along with the IPA-4000V and AFC-1000V fire alarm control panels. These updated panels have all the functionality of the original IPA-4000 and AFC-1000 panels, and now include the ability to create and send out voice evacuation messages. The Integrated Voice System can be used to address multiple site requirements for the Potter AFC-1000V and IPA-4000V, with industry leading capacity including up to 104 programmable push …

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Air Leakage and Dry Pipe Systems

One of the keys to assessing the overall health of a dry or preaction fire sprinkler system is to keep an eye on its leak rate. Excessive leak rates can put unnecessary strain on air compressors or nitrogen generators used for supervisory air in these systems. For those systems with air compressors, this can lead to an increase in corrosion since the more the compressor runs, the more oxygenated air is introduced into the system. Leak rates that are shown to be increasing can also signal …

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Potter Peer to Peer Fire Alarm Systems Win Product of the Year

Potter Electric Signal Company is proud to announce a victory for its Peer to Peer Networking Cards at the Security Today 2021 New Product of the Year Awards. This is the third award for Potter’s networking cards in 2021. The NCE-1000 and NCF-1000 Peer-to-Peer Networking Cards allow for networking between fire alarm panels using ethernet cable and fiber optic cable (single mode or multi-mode) respectively.  Up to 200 panels can be networked together, and once the cards are …

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