Compass Products CIRD CIRD

The Compass CIRD is an LED remote emergency lamp head assembly that mounts on a base plate and wires back to a central emergency lighting unit or inverter for its power. It comes as either a single or a double head arrangement, and the heads themselves are fully adjustable so you can aim the beams along an egress path after the plate is fastened up.

It is a remote head, not a self-contained emergency light. There is no onboard battery, so the CIRD has to be fed from an emergency lighting unit or inverter that has remote-head capacity left on its circuit. If you need a standalone fixture with its own battery backup, a remote head is the wrong part for that opening.

Both are offered on the CIRD. A single head covers one direction of travel, a corridor run or a stair landing where one aimed beam does the job. The double head lets you light two directions from one plate, which is what you want at a corridor intersection or over an exit door where you need coverage inside and out. Since both share the same base plate, the decision is purely about how many beams the layout calls for and how much remote capacity your host unit has left.

The manufacturer part number is CIRD, from Compass Products. That is the designation to put on a purchase order or submit against a drawing calling for a Compass LED remote head.

Yes. The lamp heads on the CIRD are fully adjustable, so once the base plate is anchored you can rotate and tilt each head to put light down the egress path rather than onto a wall. That matters on retrofits where the existing box location is fixed and you cannot move the plate.

Compass rates the CIRD LED life cycle at more than 10 years. For a property manager or MRO buyer standardizing remote heads across a building, that means the recurring maintenance item is the host unit's battery, not the lamps in these heads.