Fire Alarm Trainer activates the detector and sets off the alarm system. The case has an internal divider and separate heater lamps designed to raise the temperature within the enclosure above the detector limits. A two zone Fire Alarm Trainer control panel to Fire Alarm Trainer is mounted on the front of a glass reinforced plastic panel. One detector zone consists of a temperature detector and rate of rise temperature detector mounted in a fire retardant glass reinforced plastic case.
Apertures at the base of the box allow combustion products from a match or lighter or visible smoke from the generator supplied to be injected into the enclosure housing the two types of detector. The second detector circuit consists of a manual call point followed by an optical smoke detector and ionised particle detector mounted in a similar box to the heat detectors.