Cooper Lighting and Safety has introduced a completely new version of its Easicheck automatic test system for emergency lighting.
Featuring innovations such as spur wiring capability,a touch-screen user interface and web access to historical test data,Easicheck 2 has been designed to make the testing of emergency lighting as straightforward and as cost-effective as possible for the building manager.
The new system provides continuous monitoring of lamp,battery and control-gear functionality,together with programmable test regimes to comply with prevailing regulatory requirements.Using simple twisted-pair wiring,Easicheck 2 offers a high-integrity solution for the automatic testing of up to 200 emergency luminaires in either a loop configuration or a loop with spurs.
An auto-learn facility automatically scans the data loop and gives each luminaire an address number corresponding to its position on the loop.If more luminaires are added at a later date,the system can either be instructed to allocate the next available address without altering any existing addresses or to carry out a new auto-learn sequence to re-establish consecutive addressing on the loop.
The 120 x 90mm touch screen includes a QWERTY keyboard facility for data entry,and the system can be programmed with up to 16 independent test groups to accommodate different test regimes or test times in different parts of a building.
For large installations,up to 63 Easicheck 2 panels can be networked together via twisted-pair,TCP/IP or fibre-optic links,enabling a maximum of 12,600 emergency luminaires to be monitored.
As well as being compatible with a wide range of Cooper's own emergency luminaires,Easicheck 2 can also be used in conjunction with other manufacturers'products when modified and CE-marked by Cooper.The system is suitable for use with tungsten,fluorescent and LED luminaires.
