Alarm Controls RP Series - Push Button Remote Plates - RP-26, RP-27 Single Gang, Stainless Steel Wall Plate With Guard Ring

Button count. The RP-26 is a single gang stainless plate with one push button, and the RP-27 carries two buttons on the same single gang plate. Pick the RP-27 when one location has to release two openings, for example a vestibule with an inner and outer door, so you run one plate instead of two.

For a standard release on a maglock or electric strike, the normally open button is what you want: the RP-26 (red button) and the RP-27 (two red buttons) are N/O, so the circuit only makes when someone presses. The RP-26A with the black button is normally closed, which is the one to order when the device drops the door on a break in the circuit, such as a maglock wired to release when power is interrupted. The RP-27A gives you two N/O buttons in black if you want the darker button without changing the contact.

Yes, the RP series plates are rated 12/24 VDC, so they drop onto either of the two voltages a commercial access control panel, maglock, or electric strike normally runs on. No separate low voltage version to specify.

It is a single gang plate, so it mounts to a standard single gang box or single gang mud ring in the wall beside the door. The RP-27, with its two buttons, is also single gang, so a two button station does not need a wider box.

No. The ACSI 1340-1 is an indicator: a single gang wall mount plate carrying one LED, available in red or green. It signals status, it does not switch anything. The Alarm Controls RP-26 is a remote plate with an N/O red push button on a single gang satin stainless steel plate with a guard ring, so it is the device a person presses to release a door. If the opening needs someone to actuate the release, the RP-26 or the N/C black button RP-26A is the part; the 1340-1 belongs on the annunciation side of the same system.

It is built for commercial use, with a satin stainless steel plate and a guard ring around the button. The guard ring is the part that matters at a busy entry or a corridor where carts and shoulders hit the wall: it keeps the button from being knocked or leaned on, which is the usual failure mode for a bare exit button in a lobby, hospital corridor, or school.

The RP plates come in satin stainless steel, which reads the same as the 630 satin stainless finish used on most commercial lever trim, push plates, and stainless cover plates, so it blends into a standard commercial corridor rather than standing out. There is one finish across the RP-26, RP-26A, RP-27 and RP-27A, so a fleet of doors gets a consistent look regardless of which button configuration each opening needs.

Different jobs. A push button plate like the RP-26 is an input, someone presses it to release the door. An indicator plate such as the ACSI 1340-1, a single gang wall mount with one red or green LED, is an output: it tells staff whether the door is secure or released and has no button to press. Guard stations and secure vestibules often get both on adjacent boxes, the button to release and the indicator to show state.

Step up within the same RP family rather than ganging two plates. The RP-27 puts two N/O red push buttons on one single gang satin stainless steel plate, and the RP-27A is the same two-button arrangement in black, so one box position drives two circuits. The single-button RP-26 and RP-26A cover openings that need only one actuation. All of them run on 12/24 VDC, so the two-button versions do not change the power you have to bring to the wall.

Pair the RP plate with an ACSI 1340-1, which is a single gang wall mount indicator carrying one LED in red or green. Both mount in single gang wall positions, so a two-gang box or two adjacent boxes gives you the actuation on one side and the LED status on the other. The RP-26 and RP-27 plates are satin stainless steel and run on 12/24 VDC, which is the same commercial low voltage environment these indicators are wired into.