Recently, I’ve been thinking about different addressable protocols used by different brands. How do they compare, in terms of speed?
I already know about the differences between protocols from singular brands, such as the differences between Fire-Lite and Notifier CLIP, and LiteSpeed and FlashScan. The latter two offer much higher speeds and higher point capacity.
What I want to know is how the speeds of different brands’ protocols compare. For example, how do the speeds of LiteSpeed and FlashScan compare to Simplex’s MAPNET or IDNet protocols?
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I’d like to know that too. One thing I do know is that the old Siemens/Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL protocol on the ALD and MLC cards was one of the slowest ever made, and the newer Siemens H- and X- series protocols on the DLC and XDLC cards are some of the fastest on the market. The Simplex/Autocall IDNET protocol also seems to be almost as fast, but it doesn’t support multi-colored LEDs on devices. The protocols from Honeywell and Edwards are slightly slower, but not slow enough that I would consider it an issue, or even a downside of their products. The GW-FCI Velociti protocol does seem like it is slower than the rest, though. The Apollo protocol that they used before seems faster than their modern one, even when running on the same panels. Simplex’s MapNet and the CLIP protocol that was used by several brands both seem pretty fast as well, and I’d say they aren’t much slower than their modern ones. Despite this, the panels running CLIP protocol originally were often unbearably slow.
There are a lot of factors for this so not the easiest to tell
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