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Any recommendations on a door or striking unit that works the best or is east to work with?

Anything that can be activated by a single pair normally open or normally closed contacts. You supply the signal voltage, and let the RFID unit take care of connecting or disconnecting that voltage.

actually, You are NOT looking for any Voltage from the Door strike!

Just a closure, pair of wires. Yes, there maybe a small amount of voltage on the pair, If So, make sure you use the Diode that ESI used to send with the reader. ask ESI for some Diodes.

OK, I should clarify that a bit then. The RFID reader has a relay inside that it triggers when the RFID is read. On older units, the three terminals of the relay were exposed for use - NC, C, NO. New units only expose two terminals and a jumper chooses if those terminals are NC or NO.

I'm thinking a door strike is not always energized, and that applying a voltage to it will cause it to open. In that case, the RFID should be used in a Normally Open configuration. The voltage goes in on one pin, and waits until it's connected to the other, at which point the voltage causes the door to unlock.

If it's the opposite - that there's a constant voltage, and the interruption causes the lock to release, then use the NC form.

gtmc14 here is a little advise. Rule of thumb door strikes, drop bolts, and panic bars are a fail secure devise. Meaning when power is lost the door remains secure. Devises such as mag locks are fail safe meaning when power is lost the door remains unsecure.

However depending on the make and model of the strike you choose it could be field selectable for voltages and fail safe or fail secure settings.

If the hardware on the door is a cylindrical type lock and the frame is metal you can save your self a lot of time with this strike. You don’t need to cut the door frame.

www.hesinnovations.com/hes2/5900.cfm

Your probably thinking I already know this but make sure you match up the strike with right power supply i.e. 24vdc strike you need a 24vdc power supply

Good luck

We use mag locks for the convenience of people coming in and out during the day. At night, we still lock the deadbolt. Yes, in a power failure, the door would not be secure.. but in a power failure, at night or over the weekend, the deadbolt should be set. During the day, either there will be people inside anyway, or they'll leave the premises, and lock the door behind them. We also have a remote-controlled relay to override the lock, and release the door.

I was also under the impression from some ESI sales rep that the RFID entries would be logged to SMDR, but it doesn't seem to show up. We don't need to track hours with it, just to have an idea of how much in/out we've got.

The RFID report is in Program 72. I've never seen the report work properly though.

Per ESI They have a revised reader because of electrical pulses thru the contacts are causing
display freeze up. Contact ESI for a replacement.

If you need to track hours you should install the timeline software. You will be able to generate all kinds of reports and export the info to payroll software. Kind of cool I have it in about a dozen locations.

Here's a sample of an old report, generated with F72. The names were changed to protect the innocent, assuming there are any. It will only display door boxes set as entrance/exit. As you can see it doesn't say if it's an entrance or an exit log. Last time I checked you couldn't generate the report with admin-programmer only the installer version.

EPM Reader 250
Start: 09/21/2007 6:20 PM End: 09/27/2007 6:29 PM

Ext/MB Name Tag ID Date Time
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0308 DAN 0004374xxxx 09/24/2007 6:21 PM
0308 DAN 0004374xxxx 09/26/2007 11:35 AM
0308 DAN 0004374xxxx 09/27/2007 1:10 PM
0206 MIKE 0004396xxxx 09/27/2007 6:01 PM
0206 MIKE 0004396xxxx 09/27/2007 6:02 PM

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