Magnetic Shear Lock

Surface Mount Magnetic Lock

Prior to the 1970’s it was illegal to lock perimeter exit doors from the interior side. In fact, all that was permitted in most commercial buildings was an exit device to insure uninhibited egress at all times while locked on the exterior. This was problematic in that the exit devices left facilities vulnerable to employee theft and also to breaking and entering simply by using a clothes hanger to manipulate and unlock the exit device from the exterior. Still, most jurisdictions would not permit electromechanical locking due to fire life safety issues. For these reasons many facility owners, including commercial buildings, industrial facilities, banquet facilities, warehouse and convention centers, resorted to the illegal use of chains and padlocks to secure their perimeter doors after hours. To prevent employee theft, breaking and entering, and provide life safety, a solution was needed.

While it was obvious an electric lock connected to the fire command center was required, the AHJ’s concern was that electromechanical locks had the potential to bind and inhibit safe egress. In 1969, Art Geringer, founder of SDC traveled to Sacramento to visit the California State Fire Marshal. There, the fire marshal indicated that he would approve a lock that did not rely on a spring to retract the bolt and that the lock must pass a test of 800,000 cycles. Arthur returned home and designed a lock that met the state fire marshals criteria and approval. In 1971, SDC introduced the FS23M dual-failsafe bolt lock with features that helped ensure safe lock release. Still used today, the SDC bolt lock is listed for use by the California State Fire Marshal, City of New York MEA and City of Los Angeles.

- Also in 1969, Locknetics founder Irving Saphirstein, designed the first electromagnetic lock that found approval for locking perimeter doors after business hours (See Figure 1). Unlike an electromechanical lock, the electromagnetic lock had no moving parts to bind or wear, making it ideal for fire life safety applications that require the assurance of trouble-free release during normal operation, a power outage or by a signal from the fire life safety system (see figure 2). However it took a while for this concept to be accepted by distributors for several reasons. It required a lot of current, had low holding force and required a special power supply to eliminate residual magnetism. Eventually improvements were made to eliminate these issues and several more companies, including SDC, began manufacturing electromagnetic locks.

Initially intended for securing perimeter doors after business hours, the simplicity of EMLock installation made it popular for many other applications, even those for which it is not permitted by code, such as elevator lobby doors and high-rise stairwell doors, or the locking of entrance doors during business hours. However, only failsafe electrified locksets or electrified exit devices meet code criteria for the access control of stairwell doors or exit doors during business hours. Unlike magnetic locks, these locking devices provide uninhibited egress by manual means only.

Features of the Remote Energy Management Thermostat

• Trane Remote Energy Management Thermostat can be added to the Z-Wave network within your home
• Add the Trane Remote Energy Management Thermostat to your Schlage LiNK System to remotely monitor and control your thermostat from anywhere with any Internet enabled computer and most Internet enabled cell phones
• Actively manage the energy use within your home and reduce energy consumption up to 15% with the energy savings schedule
• When paired with the Schlage Wireless Bridge, utilize advanced thermostat features through the Schlage LiNK web portal
• Energy Star compliant
• Receive text message or email alerts when unwanted adjustments are made to the temperature settings in your home
• Remotely control your home’s heating and cooling through the Schlage LiNK web portal- 7 day programmable thermostat with up to 4 settings per day
• Remotely enable the energy savings mode for extra savings when on vacation or away from home
• When paired with the Schlage Wireless Bridge, set up is simple- you’ll be up and running quickly!
• HVAC System Type: Compatible with most brands of central heating, cooling and heat pump systems
• Power: 24Vac from HVAC System
• Graphical LCD Display

Additional Information

• Thermostat requires 24VAC power with minimum 5 wires for most single stage heating and cooling installations. One of the 5 wires must be common
• Not for use with 120/240V electric baseboard heat
• Not for use with proprietary communicating systems
• Not for use with radiant floor heating systems
• Dual fuel operation requires accessory kit available from equipment manufacturer

Designed for homes and businesses alike, Alarm.com’s systems (which are sold and installed by various third-party dealers) rely on wireless sensors and GSM/GPRS networks. In other words, they’re highly connected.

The eponymous app gives you full control over your system, allowing you to arm or disarm it from just about anywhere. That could come in mighty handy when you’re halfway to the airport and realize you forgot to arm the sucker (or just can’t remember if you did).

It also provides a wealth of monitoring tools. You can get real-time updates on doors and windows, watch live and recorded video feeds (assuming your system has cameras, natch), and review “event histories.” (When did the kids get home from school? When did the maid leave? That kind of thing.).

Simon XT Two-Way Talking Touch Screen

The Simon XT™ Two-Way Talking Touch Screen is a color LCD screen featuring a user-friendly interface that offers complete control over Simon XT security systems. In addition, optional wireless devices can be added to provide control over other functions including Z-Wave® wireless lighting control devices and Z-Wave wireless thermostats for home HVAC systems. This touch screen is the ideal solution for providing an additional keypad, and up to four touch screens can be installed in one home for maximum convenience.

RTI Universal Controllers

The T1-B is the second generation of RTI’s popular T1 universal system controller. Completely customizable and programmable, the T1-B allows all other factory remote controls to be combined into one simple, ergonomic user interface providing powerful one-handed system control. Featuring a sleek new industrial design and perfect assortment of keypad buttons for commonly used functions, the T1-B can operate today’s sophisticated media system, no matter how complex, at an affordable price.

The VIERA® G25 Series Plasma is the center of your entertainment universe. With VIERA Cast™, enjoy what the web has to offer right on the big screen. Catch up with family and friends with Skype on your TV, catch your favorite movie with Netflix and listen to great music with Pandora – plus more! And the Infinite Black Panel featured on the G25 series blocks ambient light and produces deep blacks and bright, vivid images with minimal reflection.

VIERA Cast’s assorted online content just keeps getting better – in addition to the popular contents such as YouTube and Picasa Web Albums, it now offers Pandora Internet Radio, movies streamed from Netflix™*, exciting sports from FOX Sports™, tweeting web communications with Twitter®, and even home video and audio conferencing with Skype™. It also provides USB terminals for a keyboard and Wireless LAN Adaptor. No PC required. Skype function requires an optional communication camera TY-CC10.
Skype service will be available late June 2010.
*Netflix unlimited membership required. Service on Viera Cast TV will be available summer 2010.
*Keyboard and Wireless LAN Adaptor are not included.

*Design and content are subject to change without notice.

Skype™ on Your VIERA TV

VIERA Cast’s addition of Skype makes it possible for people around the world to connect and communicate through voice and video calls from the comfort of their own living room on VIERA’s large screen.

Skype function requires an optional communication camera TY-CC10.
Skype service will be available late June 2010.
* Broadband connection and a webcam required

Many real-world mixing applications only involve a few channels, so a small mixer is the obvious choice. But no matter how simple the setup, you’ll always want first-rate audio quality and processing capability. The Yamaha MG82CX mixer is the ideal choice for small music production or live sound applications, offering sonic quality that will satisfy the most critical listener, surprising flexibility and ease-of-use, and some advanced features you normally wouldn’t find in this type of compact mixer. So whether you need a compact main mixer, or a secondary utility mixer for a larger application, don’t overlook this small but powerful audio mixer.

The MG82CX has a total of 8 input channels comprised of two mono microphone/line channels and three stereo line channels. Gain trim covers a wide -60dB ~ -16dB range for microphone input, and -34dB ~ +10dB for line input.

The built-in channel compressors can be a tremendous advantage in achieving great vocal sound. It can also be used to refine the sound of bass, guitar, and other sources. You won’t find built-in channel compression on too many other mixers in this class, but in the Yamaha MG82CX you have Yamaha’s innovative one-knob compression feature on mono input channels 1 and 2. Conventional audio compressors with their threshold, ratio, knee, makeup gain and other controls can be complex and time-consuming to set appropriately for a given source. Yamaha’s one-knob compressor eliminates the need for an engineering degree with a single control that lets you simply dial in the amount of compression you want.

Building a truly useful, musical-sounding channel equalizer is no easy task, but Yamaha has decades of experience in building pro consoles to draw on, and you reap the benefits in the MG82CX mixer. Channels 1, 2, 3/4, and 5/6 feature full 3-band equalizers with LOW, MID, and HIGH controls, while channels 7/8 have 2-band EQ for smooth equalization of stereo sources.

The MG82CX has EFFECT send controls on all channels that adjust the level of the signal sent from the corresponding channel to the mixer’s internal multi-effect system. The same signal can also be sent to external effect processors via the mixer’s EFFECT SEND jack. A RETURN control in the master section of the mixer adjusts the level of the signal returned from external processors via the RETURN jacks.

• Yamaha MG82CX Mixer Profile:
• 8 input channels
• 16 programs of digital effects
• Four Low-noise, High-precision Mic Preamps
• 3-band Channel EQ & HPF
• Aux Send & Stereo Aux Return
• Gain control on channels 1-6
• 48V phantom power on channels 1-6
• Single compression knob on 2 channels
• Optional Mic Stand Mount