Leading life-safety systems manufacturer, C-Tec, has launched Fastconvert, an innovative new four to eight-way conventional to addressable zone converter. Designed to facilitate the fast conversion and upgrade of a multi-zone conventional fire system to an addressable Cast system utilising pre-existing wiring, Fastconvert can save fire alarm installers thousands of pounds.
Fully compatible with C-Tec’s XFP and ZFP Cast fire systems and its award-winning Cast-Pro combined fire detection and alarm devices, Fastconvert fills the gap in the market for a solution which enables engineers to carry out speedy and economical upgrades of conventional to more sophisticated and powerful addressable systems.
Andy Green, C-Tec’s Marketing Director said: “Fastconvert is a clever innovation designed with the installer in mind. As fire detection and alarm technology has improved, more and more sites are looking to upgrade their old conventional systems to addressable, not just because the conventional devices are reaching end of life, but also because an addressable system can identify the precise location of a fire or fault, facilitate sophisticated cause and effects and reduce false alarms.
We are definitely seeing this in schools, care homes and hotels where Fastconvert is coming into its own as an ingenious retrofit upgrade solution which can utilise a conventional system’s existing zone wiring whilst maintaining compliance with BS 5839-1.”
