Service & Commissioning Department

SPEL's experienced and knowledgeable service department are committed to ensuring that our customers requirements are met from the initial project design, in the manufacture and delivery of our products, through to the final commissioning and maintenance of the system.

Our dedicated team of commissioning engineers ensure that the emergency lighting system is installed and operating correctly and that they also comply with appropriate British standards.

SPEL can undertake service contracts on installation featuring other manufacturing products. Our technical department are on hand to help with any service or technical support that may be required.

EN50172:2005 Routine Testing of Emergency Lighting Systems

EN50172:2005 requires emergency lighting installations to be routinely tested, at times of minimum risk, to ensure continuing performance and undertaken at a time of minimum risk. The following testing regime extract has been taken from the standard, which should be consulted to ensure all requirements are adequately met.

	Daily
	Monthly
	Six-monthly
	Three-yearly
	Subsequent annual inspections

Daily

A visual inspection of every maintained emergency luminaire to ensure the lamp is operating correctly and in central or generator based systems that the control panel or indicators are showing normal conditions. Any faults must be entered into the system logbook and a check that any previously reported faults have received attention.

Monthly

	Self-contained emergency luminaires should be energized from their internal batteries by simulation of the supply, for sufficient time to ensure correct lamp operation and light output.
	Central systems shall be energized from their batteries for a period not exceeding 25% of their capacity and all emergency luminaires checked for correct lamp operation and light output.
	Generator systems shall be energised for their full rated duration and the lamps checked for correct operation and light output throughout the test.

Six-Monthly

	All self-contained and central battery 3 hour emergency systems shall be continuously energized from their internal battery packs for a period of one-hour and the lamps checked for correct operation and light output.
	Generator supplied systems should have the monthly test applied.

Three-Yearly

	Self-contained emergency luminaires shall be energized from their internal batteries for their full rated duration and the lamps checked for correct operation and light output throughout the test.
	Central systems shall be energised for their full rated duration and the lamps checked for correct operation and light output throughout the test.

Subsequent Annual Test

For self-contained emergency luminaires the three-year test shall be carried out annually.

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