Discussion and troubleshooting Salwico Consilium Fire alarm system

This post is specifically designed to discuss the Salwico Consilium Fire Alarm System. If you have any problems with this system, please leave a comment below, and I'll try to help. For more information on the system, I recommend reading the article: "Salwico Consilium Fire Alarm System. Troubleshooting".

Comments in that article are closed because there were so many of them, and that's why this separate article was created.

Here is a summary of the article “Fire alarm system Salwico Consilium. Troubleshooting”.

Fire Alarm System Salwico Consilium – Troubleshooting Experience

The article presents practical field troubleshooting on a 10+ year old Salwico Consilium fire alarm system, focusing on how to systematically diagnose faults in chargers, batteries, loop wiring, SCIs, addressable devices, and loop modules.

Checking the fire systems on the vessel. What should an ETO know?

Greetings! In this article I propose to understand the issues of fire systems on a vessel, namely fire alarms and fire extinguishing methods used on a vessel. As usual, we will consider these issues from the perspective of an ETO.

What is the relationship of an electrician to ship fire systems, as well as how to check all kinds of fire extinguishing systems, we will analyze in this article. In such articles, I mainly focus on practice, so we will consider the conditions when you need to demonstrate your knowledge to the maximum when checking certain ship systems to successfully pass any inspection by any inspectors.

Need service! Autoprime Autronica Fire Alarm System. Troubleshooting

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Let me remind you that in the articles in the "blog" category I do not write some super useful information. It can be just some thoughts, reasoning or interesting stories from the sea life of an electrician. Although even in these articles someone will find something useful for themselves.

It so happened that the ship's Autoprime Autronica fire alarm completely failed. Of course, for the ETO and the entire crew this is a real headache. For the electrician, this is an endlessly long and laborious process of troubleshooting, for the management - endless correspondence with the office and superintendents, for the rest of the crew - additional watches. In general, everyone is tense, and especially the electrician.

Fire alarm system Salwico Consilium. Troubleshooting

Greetings! In this article, we'll look at some of the problems with the Salwico Consilium fire system on a 10+ year old vessel and how to troubleshoot these issues.

In the official instructions for this system, you can find a lot of information about the problems that occur during the operation of the Salwico fire alarm. But today we will consider only some of them.

General Troubleshooting Steps for Salwico Consilium Fire Alarm System (briefly)

Any fire system on a ship is powered by two sources (main switchboard and emergency switchboard, usually 220V), and additional batteries (usually two 12V each, connected in series).

Attention! If you have an old Salwico Consilium fire system on your vessel, avoid turning it off completely, as this may cause it to fail to boot later.

The first problem that happened with this system was error No. 158 BATTERY CABLE / FUSE FAULT.