A Scorpion Point detector tester is a smoke generator designed to fit a wide range of standard point smoke detectors as a retrofit or a new install. Permanently installed, Scorpions are fitted behind or adjacent to the detector they are to test but use their own cabling and remain discrete from the fire detection system. Multiple Scorpions can be fitted on a circuit with a maximum length of 500 metres and as many circuits as desired.
Each circuit ‘terminates’ at an Access Point (which is the point at which the Service Engineer interfaces with the Scorpion system). Typically, but not of necessity, Access Points might be located near the alarm panel / control and indicating equipment.The system is powered and activated only through the portable Scorpion Controller, carried from site to site by a Service Engineer and which connects to the system through the conveniently located Access Point - a single location from which multiple Scorpions can be accessed and activated.
Scorpion’s sequential test feature1 enables a single engineer to activate automatically all devices on a circuit liberating him or her to carry out other operations while the fully automated procedure completes its cycle. Visual checks can be accomplished safely and quickly with very considerable cost and time savings (see Benefits).
Scorpion’s sequential test feature1 enables a single engineer to activate automatically all devices on a circuit liberating him or her to carry out other operations while the fully automated procedure completes its cycle. Visual checks can be accomplished safely and quickly with very considerable cost and time savings (see Benefits).
Test data is stored in each Scorpion as well as being available for downloading to the portable Scorpion Controller from where it can be transferred to back office systems (see Audit Trail).
1 Requires alarm panels that allow automatic reset of detectors to enable sequential testing
