New System Sensor SS-Series detectors

[Mhgk]

@TheCarson116

I also do believe that that’s System Sensor’s first new detector line in quite some time

I think these are almost identical to the Select series, but with the manufacturer code changed for compatibility with the Fire-Lite and Silent Knight panels.

@TheCarson116

speaking of which you think this “SS-series” will replace the aforementioned ones given it’s of identical design to them & are compatible with Fire-Lite & SK panels according to the datasheets like you said (though who knows about Notifier).

Probably, and it might be a sign of Fire-Lite and Silent Knight merging into System Sensor. I don’t think these devices will be officially compatible with Notifier systems (although they will probably work with the FireWarden panels and NFS-320), since Notifier is proprietary but Fire-Lite and Silent Knight are not.

Also, I assume the newer Fire-Lite and Silent Knight panels do check the manufacturer ID (see this old list from 2014), which makes it unclear how a detector would retrofit to both systems. My guess is that because Fire-Lite panels must initialize the SLC differently from Silent Knight panels to cause the detectors to flash red instead of green, the detector will detect the different initialization pattern and report the Fire-Lite manufacturer in that case. If the SLC is initialized in CLIP mode, then it can also be assumed to be Fire-Lite since Silent Knight never manufactured any CLIP-capable panels as far as I know. However, I don’t know of any way that such a detector could also work with Notifier panels.