Gent VIGPLUS-72 Vigilon Plus 6-Loop Fire Alarm Control Panel

Overview

Gent VIGPLUS-72 is a six-loop analogue addressable fire alarm control panel from the Honeywell Gent Vigilon Plus range, engineered for large-scale commercial, industrial and infrastructure installations that require centralized, intelligent fire detection across wide areas. Built on Gent’s proven Vigilon analogue addressable platform, the panel supports between one and six detection loops, each capable of carrying up to 200 micro-powered devices – detectors, sounders, interface units, call points and visual alarm devices (VADs) – giving a single VIGPLUS-72 panel command of up to 1,200 field devices over standard two-core loop wiring, with no separate sounder or repeater circuits required.

Backed by genuine manufacturer documentation, Seven Star LLC proudly supplies the Gent VIGPLUS-72 to consulting engineers, fire protection contractors and facility owners across the Sultanate of Oman. Every panel supplied through Seven Star LLC comes with manufacturer documentation and local technical support – giving project teams in Muscat and across the region an accountable source for their life-safety infrastructure.

Operating Principle of the Gent VIGPLUS-72

The Gent VIGPLUS-72 operates on Gent’s analogue addressable loop technology, where every connected device continuously reports its individual analogue sensing value back to the panel rather than simply tripping a threshold switch as in conventional systems. The panel’s loop cards poll each device on the loop in sequence, building a live picture of smoke density, heat rise or manual call point activation at every single address. Because each device carries its own unique identity on the loop, the panel can pinpoint the exact device and physical location that triggered an alarm or fault condition, rather than reporting only a shared zone – a critical distinction in large buildings where a vague zone indication can cost precious minutes during an evacuation.

This addressable architecture also underpins the system’s diagnostic depth. Loop cards continuously monitor wiring integrity, device presence and communication health, logging faults, isolations and pre-alarm drift to a flash memory card for later audit. In practical terms this means facility engineers gain detailed event history for compliance reporting, technicians can isolate a single faulty detector without disabling the rest of the loop, and the panel can apply sectoring logic – alert versus full evacuation phases, pre-alarm delays, and cause-and-effect programming – all from PC-based commissioning software rather than hard-wired relay logic.

Engineering Design of the Gent VIGPLUS-72

Physically, the Gent VIGPLUS-72 is housed in a robust steel enclosure with a lockable door, designed for wall mounting in plant rooms, security control rooms or dedicated fire command centers. The front panel carries a backlit LCD display of 8 lines by 40 characters, presenting clear, plain-language fire and fault location text alongside a push-button keypad for navigation, acknowledgment and test functions – keeping day-to-day operation straightforward for on-site security and facilities staff without specialist fire engineering training.

Internally, the panel accepts up to six loop driver cards, each independently monitoring its own two-core loop, and the six-loop variant is supplied with full 72-hour integral standby power via an external battery enclosure (typically 4 × 21 Ah), plus 30 minutes of alarm hold-over – satisfying extended-standby requirements common in Gulf infrastructure and hospitality projects. Advanced networking cards allow up to 200 VIGPLUS-72 panels to be linked in a single multi-domain network over copper or fibre optic connections, so that a campus, airport terminal or hospital complex can be monitored and controlled from a unified graphical front end while each panel continues to operate autonomously if network connectivity is interrupted.

Key Features

The Gent VIGPLUS-72 combines high device capacity, flexible networking and detailed diagnostics in a single addressable fire alarm control panel. The Gent VIGPLUS-72 is engineered to meet the demanding requirements of large-scale, multi-building fire protection projects:

• Supports 1 to 6 analogue addressable detection loops, each carrying up to 200 devices, for a maximum single-panel capacity of 1,200 field devices.
• Uses a single two-core loop wiring circuit per loop, eliminating the need for separate sounder or repeater panel cabling.
• Provides full 72-hour integral standby power with external battery enclosure, plus 30 minutes of alarm hold-over.
• Features a backlit 8-line × 40-character LCD display with push-button keypad for clear, immediate fire and fault location readouts.
• Supports advanced multi-domain networking of up to 200 panels over copper or fibre optic connections for campus-wide monitoring.
• Offers PC-based commissioning software for complex cause-and-effect logic, sectoring, and multi-panel configuration.
• Stores comprehensive event logs on a flash memory card, supporting fire safety audits and compliance reporting.
• Is fully compatible with Gent’s S-Quad multi-sensor detectors, voice sounders and EN54-23 compliant visual alarm devices (VADs).

Industrial Applications

The Gent VIGPLUS-72 is deployed across large commercial, industrial and infrastructure facilities where a single fire alarm control panel must supervise extensive floor areas or multiple buildings from one command point. Typical installations include high-rise office and residential towers, shopping malls, airports, data centers, manufacturing plants and hospital complexes, where the panel’s 1,200-device capacity per unit and multi-domain networking allow entire campuses to be integrated into one coordinated life-safety network while still isolating faults down to the individual device address.

Working closely with plant engineers in the region, Seven Star LLC distributes the VIGPLUS-72 for projects throughout Muscat, and into the Sohar and Salalah economic zones, supporting district cooling plants, petrochemical facilities, hospitality developments and government infrastructure that require EN54-certified, analogue addressable fire detection with local warranty backing. Seven Star LLC’s technical team helps consultants and contractors specify the VIGPLUS-72, with availability and lead time for panels, loop cards and compatible field devices confirmed at quotation.

Technical Specifications

Key technical specifications of the Gent VIGPLUS-72 Vigilon Plus fire alarm control panel are summarized below, confirming the Gent VIGPLUS-72 as a high-capacity, EN54-compliant addressable solution.

Order Codes and Expansion Options

The VIGPLUS-72 is the 1 to 6 loop member of the Vigilon Plus family and is supplied with one loop card and an integral printer. Each additional loop needs one VIG-LPC-EN loop card, so a fully populated panel uses six. Card slots 5 and 6 can alternatively take an input/output card or a network card, which matters when the panel must be networked and still carry six loops. Network cards are ordered separately: VIG-NC for copper, VIG-NC-FO for multimode fibre and VIG-NC-SMF for single mode fibre.

Related order codes help when comparing quotations. VIGPLUS-24 is the 1 to 4 loop panel with internal batteries and 24 hour standby, and VIGPLUS-24-NP is the same panel without printer. VIGPLUS-RPT is the loop-wired repeat panel, VIGPLUS-NODE is the terminal node used for multiple I/O cards and fibre networks, and VIG-FLUSH is the flush surround. Stainless steel options are VIG-DOOR-SS and VIG-FLUSH-SS. A domain holds up to 31 panels; two domains are joined through a domain bridge, and multiple domains allow up to 200 panels in one system.

Battery Box and Standby Planning

The VIGPLUS-72 has no internal batteries. Standby power comes from a separate battery box supplied with four 12 V 21 Ah sealed lead acid batteries, and the box can optionally hold eight. The box may be mounted up to 10 m of cable away from the panel when 1.5 mm² MICC cable is used, or up to 15 m with 2.5 mm² MICC. The batteries are sized for 72 hours of standby plus 30 minutes of alarm load, and the actual loop loading should be checked with the Gent battery standby and loop load calculator before the design is fixed.

Two limits are easy to miss at design stage. Each loop accepts up to 200 addressable devices, but the alarm current per loop is limited to 800 mA, which the manufacturer equates to about 100 sensor sounder VADs. In addition, EN54-2 restricts a 4 or 6 loop Vigilon panel to a maximum of 512 sensors and manual call points, so a six loop panel cannot be filled with 1,200 detectors. Larger detector counts are handled by adding networked panels rather than by loading one panel to its device limit.

Request a Quote for Gent VIGPLUS-72 Vigilon Plus 6-Loop Fire Alarm Control Panel

Consulting engineers, fire protection contractors and facility owners in Oman and across the GCC can request a formal RFQ for the Gent VIGPLUS-72 Vigilon Plus 6-Loop fire alarm control panel directly from Seven Star LLC. With fast quotation turnaround and technical support, Seven Star LLC supplies Vigilon panels, loop cards and compatible field devices on request, and can provide the full technical datasheet, EN54 compliance documentation and project-specific quotations. Contact the Seven Star LLC instrumentation and fire safety division today to specify a genuine, warranty-backed Gent Vigilon system for your next project.

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