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IPB-3 Power Booster

The WSA Fire Systems IPB-3 In-Line Power Booster is a 3-Amp filtered, regulated power supply with 2 solid-state drive indicating circuits programmable for continuous tone, 2 march times (60 & 102), temporal code, follow mode, battery charger, and backup. This compact, filtered, regulated power supply is perfect to supply additional power required in many A.D.A. upgrade applications or as a convertor/translator from a 12 volt control unit for use in powering any 24 VDC device.

The IPB-3 Booster is power limited and operates with input from any 12VDC (for use as a translator) or 24V DC control unit to provide up to 3 amps of 24VDC power. The IPB-3 is built to UL 864 specifications and will monitor for AC power, low battery, and ground fault conditions.

Operation

The IPB-3 provides an uninterrupted path from the panel to the end-of-line device (EOL) when in the supervisory mode, maintaining normal panel supervision. The booster supervises the drives and auxiliary relays, and automatically transfers to an internal battery backed up power supply on AC power fail.

Because the system sets in-line, there is practically no limit to the number of boosters that may be used in a Class Y indicating loop. Trouble conditions are transmitted over the existing bell circuit loop, and are annunciated at the booster by a trouble sounder, with silence. A fault condition within the IPB-3 will be annunciated by the loop supervision circuitry of the host panel and locally at the affected power booster.

The IPB-3 requires local AC power at each unit and requires two 12V, 4 AH batteries in series for 24 hr backup operation. (7 AH batteries for 60 hr backup.)

Supervision

The unit is completely supervised by the fire panel but is transparent in the supervision of any polarized device. A fault condition will open the bell loop during standby and cause a trouble signal back to the host panel, except when in alarm. If the booster suffers complete power failure, (A.C. and D.C.) it will drop completely out of the loop.

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