I’m in San Antonio, Texas at a beautiful hotel and conference center for our annual sales meeting, and there are A LOT of doors with mag-locks. Check out the coordination of the bank of pairs below…concealed closers, overhead stops, and mag-locks all coexisting in the same space. Notice that the mag-locks have a split armature to save space vs. a double-magnet. Every pair has a motion sensor, a push button, and a key switch, presumably for locking and unlocking the mag-lock. I would not typically specify a separate key switch for each opening in a bank of doors, but nobody asked me.
And while we’re on the subject of mag-locks, how about another quiz question? You can enter the monthly drawing every time I post a new question and the drawing registration doesn’t give me your quiz results, so go for it!
The ceiling above one of the sets of escalators has gorgeous art glass hanging from it. Feast your eyes…
January 24th, 2012 4:26 pm
Do you have a link to an example of what you think this would look like?
I was thinking an electric stirke, but that is just to get in.
The only other thing I can think of is an electronic touch bar?
January 25th, 2012 1:48 am
Hi Charles -
If you mean what a door-mounted release for an electromagnetically locked egress door would look like, there are 3 options that I can think of at this time of the night. 1) a latchset/lockset with a request-to-exit switch (looks like a regular lockset), 2) panic hardware with an RX switch (looks like regular panic hardware), or 3) a bar that senses touch (http://epub.securitytechnologies.com/eacc/201110#pg266).
- Lori
January 24th, 2012 5:55 pm
Congrats to Lori for now, officially, getting to do what she seems to love as a job – be the official codes and resource person for IRST!
January 25th, 2012 1:41 am
Thanks Michael!