FprEN 54-3

Fire detection and fire alarm systems - Part 3: Fire alarm devices - Sounders

This European Standard specifies the requirements, test methods and performance criteria for fire alarm sounders in a fixed installation intended to signal an audible warning of fire between a fire detection and fire alarm system and the occupants of a building.  It is intended to cover only those devices which derive their operating power by means of a physical electrical connection to an external source such as a fire alarm system.
This standard specifies fire alarm sounders for two types of application environment, type A for indoor use and type B for outdoor use.
This standard is intended to cover voice sounders by the application of additional requirements, tests and performance criteria detailed in Annex C.
This standard is not intended to cover:
a)   loudspeaker type devices primarily intended for emitting emergency voice messages;
b)   supervisory sounders, for example, within the control and indicating equipment.

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La présente Norme européenne spécifie les exigences, les méthodes d'essai et les critères de performance
pour les dispositifs sonores d'alarme feu d'une installation fixe, destinés à transmettre un avertissement
sonore de feu entre les systèmes de détection et d'alarme incendie et les occupants d'un bâtiment. Elle est
prévue pour ne traiter que les dispositifs fonctionnant au moyen d'un raccordement physique à une source
d'alimentation électrique externe, tel qu'un système d'alarme incendie.
La présente norme est également destinée à couvrir les diffuseurs d'alarme vocale par l'application
d'exigences, d'essais et de critères de performance spécifiques.
La présente norme spécifie les exigences concernant les dispositifs sonores d'alarme feu pour des
environnements d'utilisation de type A, intérieurs et de type B, extérieurs.
La présente norme ne traite pas :
a) des dispositifs de type à haut-parleurs dont la fonction première est de diffuser des messages vocaux
d'urgence générés par une source audio externe ;
b) des dispositifs de signalisation sonores de supervision, par exemple, ceux incorporés dans les
équipements de contrôle et de signalisation.

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General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Publication Date: 06-Sep-2011
• Withdrawal Date: 06-Mar-2012
• ICS: 13.220.20 - Fire protection
• Technical Committee: CEN/TC 72 - Fire detection and fire alarm systems
• Drafting Committee: CEN/TC 72 - Fire detection and fire alarm systems
• Current Stage: 4598 - Decision to abandon - Finalization for Vote
• Start Date: 10-Feb-2012
• Completion Date: 10-Feb-2012
• Directive: 305/2011 - Regulation (eu) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 march 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of construction products and repealing council directive 89/106/eec
• Directive: 89/106/EEC - Construction products
• Ref Project: oSIST prEN 54-3:2009 - Fire detection and fire alarm systems - Part 3: Fire alarm devices - Sounders

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-junij-2009
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Fire detection and fire alarm systems - Part 3: Fire alarm devices - Sounders
Brandmeldeanlagen - Teil 3: Aukausische Alarmlerungseinrichtungen
Systèmes de détection et d'alarme incendie - Partie 3: Dispositifs sonores d'alarme feu
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 54-3
ICS:
13.220.20 3RåDUQD]DãþLWD Fire protection
13.320 Alarmni in opozorilni sistemi Alarm and warning systems
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
DRAFT
prEN 54-3
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2009
ICS 13.220.20
English Version
Fire detection and fire alarm systems - Part 3: Fire alarm
devices - Sounders
Systèmes de détection et d'alarme incendie - Partie 3: Brandmeldeanlagen - Teil 3: Aukausische
Dispositifs sonores d'alarme feu Alarmlerungseinrichtungen
This draft European Standard is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 72.
If this draft becomes a European Standard, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which
stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
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Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and to
provide supporting documentation.
Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without notice and
shall not be referred to as a European Standard.
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prEN 54-3:2009 (E)
Contents Page
Foreword .4
1 Scope .5
2 Normative references .5
3 Definitions and abbreviations .6
3.1 Definitions .6
3.2 Abbreviations .7
4 Requirements .7
4.1 Compliance .7
4.2 Sound level .7
4.3 Frequency and sound pattern .8
4.4 Requirements for voice sounders.8
4.5 Construction .9
4.6 On-site adjustment of the mode of operation . 10
4.7 Durability . 10
4.8 Marking and data . 10
4.9 Additional requirements for software controlled sounders . 11
5 Tests . 13
5.1 General . 13
5.2 Reproducibility . 14
5.3 Operational performance . 16
5.4 Durability . 16
5.5 Dry heat (operational) . 16
5.6 Dry heat (endurance) . 18
5.7 Cold (operational) . 18
5.8 Damp heat, cyclic (operational) . 20
5.9 Damp heat, steady state (endurance) . 21
5.10 Damp heat, cyclic (endurance) . 21
5.11 Sulfur dioxide (SO ) corrosion (endurance) . 22
5.12 Shock (operational) . 23
5.13 Impact (operational). 24
5.14 Vibration, sinusoidal (operational). 25
5.15 Vibration, sinusoidal (endurance) . 26
5.16 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), immunity (operational) . 27
5.17 Enclosure protection . 28
5.18 Operational performance for voice sounders . 30
5.19 Voice sounders sequence timing. 30
5.20 Voice sounders message synchronization . 31
Annex A (normative) Sound level for fire alarm sounders . 33
A.1 General . 33
A.2 Mounting arrangements . 33
A.3 Instrumentation . 33
A.4 Background noise level . 33
A.5 Measurement of sound level . 34
Annex B (normative) Comparative sound level test during environmental conditioning . 38
B.1 General . 38
B.2 Test chamber . 38
B.3 Mounting arrangements . 39
B.4 Instrumentation . 39
prEN 54-3:2009 (E)
B.5 Background noise level . 39
B.6 Test procedure . 39
Annex C (informative) Sound patterns recommended or required in some European countries . 43
C.1 Introduction . 43
C.2 Standards references . 43
C.3 Information on sound patterns . 43
Annex D (informative) Comparison of flammability test requirements in various standards . 46
D.1 Introduction . 46
D.2 Relevant standards . 46
D.3 Vertical burning tests . 47
D.4 Horizontal burning tests . 47
Annex ZA (informative) Clauses addressing the provisions of the EU Construction Products
Directive (89/106/EEC) . 49
ZA.1 Scope and relevant clauses . 49
ZA.2 Procedures for the attestation of conformity of control and indicating equipment covered
by this standard . 50
ZA.3 CE marking and labelling and accompanying documentation . 55
ZA.4 EC certificate and declaration of conformity . 56

prEN 54-3:2009 (E)
Foreword
This document (prEN 54-3:2009) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 72 “Fire detection and
fire alarm systems”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the
European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s).
For relationship with EU Directive(s), see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this document.
This edition of EN 54-3 cancels and replaces EN 54-3:2001, EN 54-3: 2001/A1: 2002 and EN 54-3: 2001/A2:
2006, which have been extensively revised.

Introduction
The purpose of a fire alarm sounder is to warn person(s) within, or in the vicinity of, a building of the
occurrence of a fire emergency situation in order to enable such a person(s) to take appropriate measures.
This standard recognizes that the exact nature of the sound requirements, i.e. its frequency range, temporal
pattern and output level will vary according to the nature of the installation, the type of risk present and
appropriate measures to be taken, the type of signals used by other non-emergency alarms (see, for example,
EN 457) and national differences in custom and practice. The resulting standard specifies, therefore, a
common method for the testing of the operational performance of sounders against the specification declared
by the manufacturer rather than imposing common requirements.
Attention is drawn to ISO 8201:1987, Acoustics – Audible emergency evacuation signal, the international
standard which specifies the temporal pattern and the required sound pressure level of an audible emergency
evacuation signal.
This standard gives common requirements for the construction and robustness of sounders as well as for their
performance under climatic, mechanical and electrical interference conditions which are likely to occur in the
service environment. The sounders have been classified in either an indoor or an outdoor application
environment category.
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