Intelligent Combination Smoke/CO Detector V-PCOS-CA
Kidde brand V-PCOS ⭐
✅ photoelectric detectors bring advanced sensing technology to a practical design that increases effciency, saves installation time, cuts costs, and extends life safety and property protection capabilities. Continuous self-diagnostics ensure reliability over the long-haul, while innovative feld-replacable smoke chambers make detector maintenance literally a snap. With its on board CO sensor, this detector pulls double-duty — continually monitoring the environment for signs of smoke, as well as its invisible yet deadly companion, carbon monoxide.
- The V-PCOS is an intelligent device that gathers analog information its smoke and CO sensor (if present), converting this data digital signals. To make an alarm decision, the detector’s on-board microprocessor measures and analyzes sensor readings and compares this information to historical data. Digital flters remove signal patterns that are not typical of fres, thus virtually eliminating unwanted alarms.
- The V-PCOS includes an advanced carbon monoxide sensor and daughterboard. When the electrochemical cell reaches its end of life after approximately six years, the detector signals a trouble condition to the control panel. The sensor/daughterboard module is feld-replaceable.
Standard Features
• Optical smoke sensing technology with carbon monoxide sensor
• Field-replacable smoke chamber
• Field-replacable carbon monoxide sensor/ daughterboard module
• Uses existing wiring
• Automatic device mapping
• Two levels of environmental compensation
• Two levels of dirty detector warning
• Twenty pre-alarm settings
• Five sensitivity settings
• Non-volatile memory
• Electronic addressing
• Environmental compensation
• Identifcation of dirty or defective detectors
• Identifcation of CO sensors approaching end of life
• Automatic day/night sensitivity adjustment
• Bicolor (green/red) status LED
• Standard, relay, fault isolator, and audible mounting bases
Application
Smoke detection
The V-PCOS detects extremely small particles of combustion and triggers an alarm at the frst sign of smoke. Thanks to its highperformance forward scattering reflective response technology, the photoelectric smoke sensor responds quickly and reliably to a wide range of fre types, especially slow burning fres fuelled by combustibles typically found in modern multi-use buildings.
Carbon monoxide detection
CO detection has rapidly become a standard part of life safety strategies everywhere. Monitored CO detection is becoming mandated with increasing frequency in all types of commercial applications, but particularly in occupancies such as hotels, rooming houses, dormitories, day care facilities, schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and nursing homes. In fact, more than half of the U.S. population already lives in states requiring the installation of CO detectors in some commercial occupancies. This is because carbon monoxide is the leading cause of accidental poisoning deaths in America. Known as the “Silent Killer,” CO is odorless, tasteless, and colorless. It claims nearly 500 lives, and results in more than 15,000 hospital visits annually.
Specifcations
Normal operating current | 70 µA |
Alarm current | 70 µA |
Operating voltage | 15.20 to 19.95 VDC |
Air velocity | 0 to 4,000 ft./min (0 to 20 m/s) |
Construction | High impact engineering polymer |
Wall mounting | Maximum 12 in (305 mm) ceiling |
Mounting | Plug-in |
Shipping weight | 0.44 lb. (164 g) |
Compatible bases | See Ordering Information |
Operating environment | 32 to 120°F (0 to 49°C), 0 to 93% RH, noncondensing |
Storage temperature | -4 to 140°F (-20 to 60°C) |
Environmental compensation | Automatic |
UL Listed Spacing | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Ordering Information
Catalog Number |
Description | Ship Wt. lbs (kg) |
V-PCOS | Intelligent Photoelectric Detector with carbon monoxide sensor | 0.4 (0.16) |
V-PCOS-CA | Intelligent Photoelectric Detector with carbon monoxide sensor (for use in Canadian markets only). |
Accessories
GSA-SB | Detector Mounting Base - Standard | 0.2 (.09) |
GSA-SB4 | 4-inch Detector Mounting Base c/w Trim Skirt | |
GSA-RB | Detector Mounting Base w/Relay | |
GSA-RB4 | 4-inch Detector Mounting Base w/Relay, c/w Trim Skirt | |
GSA-IB | Detector Mounting Base w/Fault Isolator | |
GSA-IB4 | 4-inch Detector Mounting Base w/ Fault Isolator, c/w Trim Skirt | |
GSA-LED | Remote Alarm LED (not for EN54 applications) | |
GSA-SBT | Audible (Sounder) Base for CO and Fire Detectors | 0.3 (0.15) |
GSA-T3T4 | GSA-T3T4 | |
GSA-TS4 | Trim Skirt (supplied with 4-inch bases) | 0.1 (.04) |
2-SPRC2 | Replacement Smoke Chamber (for V-PCOS detectors) | |
2-CORPL | Replacement CO Sensor |
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