American Standard NextGen Selectronic Touchless Faucet, Battery-Powered, 1.5 gpm/5.7 Lpm - AMS-7755115

No. The NextGen Selectronic is a battery-powered faucet with everything integrated into the body, so there is no separate control box mounted below the deck. That matters in tight cabinet spaces and under wall-hung lavatories where there is nowhere to hide a box. It also installs from the top, and the serviceable parts are reachable without crawling under the fixture.

The faucet itself is a single-hole fixture, but American Standard offers an optional deck plate that covers 4-inch (102 mm) or 8-inch (203 mm) centerset drillings. If you are replacing a centerset or widespread faucet on an existing deck, order that deck plate with it; it is not part of the faucet.

Single inlet. It takes one supply line, either straight cold or tempered water from a mixing valve. There is no hot/cold mixing at the faucet, so if users need warm water you have to feed it from a thermostatic mixing valve upstream.

It flows 1.5 gpm (5.7 Lpm) through a pressure-compensating laminar outlet, so the stream holds steady as building pressure swings. The outlet is vandal-resistant, which is the reason this one gets specified for public and high-traffic restrooms where standard screw-off aerators walk away.

A CR-P2 lithium battery ships installed in the faucet and is rated for 5 years of service. For a property manager running a bank of lavatories, that is one battery change cycle rather than a wiring job, and the battery is reached from above the deck with the rest of the serviceable parts.

A safety timer shuts the water off automatically after 55 seconds, so a blocked or fouled sensor cannot flood a basin or run a meter all night. There is also an auto purge that periodically flushes stagnant water from the faucet, which is what facilities want on low-use fixtures in schools, healthcare, and hospitality.

Battery makes sense when there is no power at the lavatory and you do not want to pull a circuit and set a transformer, which is most retrofit work. The NextGen Selectronic runs on an installed CR-P2 lithium battery rated for 5 years and keeps all its electronics in the faucet body, so the retrofit is a plumbing job, not an electrical one. Hardwired is the call when you are building new with power already at the wall and want to eliminate battery service entirely across a large fixture count.

Chrome, ordered as 7755115.002. It is the single finish offered on this model, so if you are standardizing a floor of restrooms the finish decision is already made.