Delaney 500L - CT Style Lever Exit Device Exterior Trim - Entrance Function

On the 500L, the key retracts the latchbolt and unlocks the lever. Turn the key and the lever stays free until you relock it, which is what you want on a main entrance that gets unlocked in the morning and locked at close. That is different from a storeroom trim, where the lever never unlocks and the key only retracts the latch each time (the Design Hardware KIL storeroom trim and the Marks USA M195F work that way), and different again from a nightlatch trim like the Sargent 704ET, where the key alone gets you in.

It will. The 500L escutcheon is sized to cover a stock hollow metal door with a 161 cutout, so if you are pulling an old cylindrical lock or another trim off a standard prepped HM door, the plate hides the existing hole. No filler plate needed on a stock 161 prep.

Standard cylinder on the 500L is a Schlage C 6-pin keyway. KW1 5-pin is available as an option, so a property with Kwikset keying can stay on one key. If you run interchangeable core, the 500L is also offered with an SFIC small-format 6-pin housing supplied less core, so you drop in your own core and keep the building on its existing SFIC system.

No core is included. The SFIC option on the 500L ships less core, so you supply and pin a small-format 6-pin interchangeable core to your existing keyway before the trim will operate. Order the core separately, or take the C-6-pin standard cylinder version instead if you want the trim to arrive with a cylinder in it.

The Delaney 500L covers 1-3/4 to 2 inch doors, so a 1-3/8 inch door needs a different trim. The Tell EDELT53 escutcheon lever trim is keyed entry function and covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors, which is the same entry behavior on a thinner door. The Pamex E9000 spans 1-3/8 to 2 inch, though it is storeroom function, so the lever stays locked rather than unlocking with the key. Confirm the door thickness at the lock edge before ordering, since hollow metal and wood doors in the same opening are not always the same.

Not directly. The Delaney 500L is mechanical, keyed by a Schlage C 6-pin cylinder or a small format interchangeable core, so release is by key or by pushing the device from inside. For card reader or button release you need electrified trim. Command Access makes electrified exit trim with 12V and 24V operation and fail safe or fail secure options in the ET15, ET25 and 230L lines, and the ET26 is electrified with Grade 1 construction and a field reversible design. Falcon offers the 510L-FSA/FSE as electrified heavy duty trim for 25 series devices, and Von Duprin the E360L-BE-03, a Grade 1 electric passage trim with an 03 lever, fail safe, for 33 and 35A series devices. Match the electrified trim to the exit device family you already have.

That is storeroom function, and it behaves differently from the Delaney 500L entrance function, where the key retracts the latchbolt and unlocks the lever so it stays unlocked until relocked. For a lever that never unlocks, the Design Hardware KIL storeroom function trim is the direct counterpart: Grade 1 storeroom function for 1000 and 2000 series exit devices with a Schlage C keyway and flat lever. The Tell EDELT80 escutcheon lever trim is also storeroom function and fits doors 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch. The Pamex E9000 is a Grade 1 storeroom trim with an L3 lever covering 1-3/8 to 2 inch doors.

Two directions. A pull trim removes the lever entirely: the Design Hardware 2P-03NL is a Grade 1 pull trim with a cylinder hole and night latch function for the 1000R and 2000R devices, and the Tell exit device pull trim also has a cylinder hole and ships less cylinder for 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inch doors. Both keep key access while giving nothing to pull down on. If you want to keep a lever, the Sargent 744 is a Grade 1 freewheeling trim where the key retracts the latch and the lever spins free when locked, so force on the lever does not transfer into the device. The Delaney 500L is a rigid keyed lever by comparison, with the key unlocking the lever for entrance function.

No, and it is the most common mix-up when ordering exit device trim. On the Delaney 500L entrance function, the key retracts the latchbolt and unlocks the lever, so the lever then works for anyone until it is relocked. On a nightlatch trim the key retracts the latch for that entry only and the outside never stays unlocked. The Sargent 704ET is a Grade 1 heavy duty nightlatch lever trim with field reversible operation, the Sargent 704-ETL is nightlatch with key retract function, and the Corbin Russwin VT957ET is a nightlatch escutcheon trim in stamped or formed stainless steel. If you want the door to stay open to the public during business hours, entrance function is the one you want.

Escutcheon lever trim like the Delaney 500L is sized to cover a stock hollow metal door with a 161 cutout, which is a wide stile condition. On narrow stile aluminum the escutcheon has nowhere to land. BEST makes narrow stile trim for its 2000 series exit devices: the 2001 is a narrow stile exit only pull trim with a cover plate, and the 2901 is a narrow stile exit only lever trim. Both are exit only, meaning no key entry from the outside, so if you need keyed access on a storefront door plan on a cylinder in the device or a separate keyed pull rather than a lever escutcheon.

Classroom function keeps the outside lever locked or unlocked by key from the outside only, with no thumbturn inside, which is what most school and campus specs call for. The Falcon 510L is a heavy duty classroom function trim with a lever for 24 and 25 series devices, and the Falcon 179L is a medium duty classroom lever control trim for 1790 series devices. Accentra 446F is a Grade 1 classroom function trim with the Augusta lever. Dexter offers the ED1000T-CLRM-TP-NC, a Grade 1 classroom trim, though it is a thumbpiece and pull plate rather than a lever. The Delaney 500L is entrance function, where the key both retracts the latchbolt and unlocks the lever.

Probably dummy or exit only trim, which looks nearly identical to a working lever trim on the door. The Detex 02BN is a dummy S-lever trim with a blank escutcheon, the Von Duprin 230DT is dummy trim with a heavy duty 10 gauge steel escutcheon for 22 series, and the Dexter ED1500T-DUMM-PULL is dummy function with a handle pull plate. The BEST 1700, 4900 and 2900 series lever and pull trims are exit only. None of these retract the latch. The Delaney 500L is entrance function, so the key retracts the latchbolt and unlocks the lever, and it takes either a Schlage C 6-pin cylinder or a small format interchangeable core.

The Delaney 500L is available less core for a small format 6-pin interchangeable core in US26D dull chrome, US10B oil rubbed bronze and US19 black, so it drops into an existing SFIC keying system without a separate cylinder order. Among the alternatives, the Corbin Russwin VT957ET nightlatch escutcheon trim is offered less cylinder, and the Tell exit device pull trim ships with a cylinder hole less cylinder, so both let you supply your own core. The Dexter ED1500T-PULL-NC and the ED1000T classroom trim are also less cylinder. Confirm the core format your system uses before ordering, since less cylinder does not by itself mean small format.

Three finishes: US26D dull chrome, US10B oil rubbed bronze, and US19 black. All three are offered both with the C-6-pin standard cylinder and in the SFIC less-core version, so the keying decision does not limit the finish. US26D is the usual match for satin chrome exit devices already on a building's other openings; US19 black and US10B are the choices when the trim has to match darker existing hardware.

Depends on who comes through the door and how often. A keyed lever trim like the Delaney 500L, entrance function, lets you unlock the lever so the door stays freely operable during business hours, then relock it with the key. A nightlatch trim is key-only every time, with a pull instead of a working lever, and that is the right call for a back or service door nobody should walk through without a key. The Sargent 704ET and the Accentra 121NL nightlatch trim are that type. A dummy or exit-only trim, such as the BEST 1700 Series pull or the Detex 02BN, gives you a pull with no key access at all, for doors that are egress only from the inside.

Outside trim only. The 500L is the exterior lever and escutcheon that mounts on the pull side of an opening, and the exit device itself, the push bar or touchbar that does the latching, is a separate item. You need both to make up a complete opening, and the trim has to match the device series it mounts to.

Keying-wise it works. The 500L takes a Schlage C 6-pin cylinder as standard, and the Design Hardware KIL storeroom trim is also a Schlage C keyway lever trim, so entrance openings on the 500L and storeroom openings on the KIL can run on the same C keyway and the same master system. If you would rather run interchangeable core across the whole building, order the 500L in the SFIC less-core version and pin your own small-format 6-pin cores. Lever style and finish will not match exactly between brands, so keep the mixing to areas where appearance is not being matched door to door.

Pushbutton exit trim. The Dormakaba E-Plex 201U is an electronic pushbutton exit trim for wide stile doors, and the PowerPlex P201U is exit trim for rim, mortise and surface vertical rod devices. Where you want no wiring and no batteries in the equation, the E-Plex 5067 is a mechanical pushbutton lock. Any of these change how the opening is credentialed, so unlike the Delaney 500L, which is keyed with a Schlage C 6-pin cylinder or a small format interchangeable core, you are managing codes rather than keys across the building.

Only if you no longer want outside access. A blank escutcheon covers the door prep and gives a finished exterior with no cylinder and no working lever. The Falcon 212L is a 20 series escutcheon lever trim with shear pin protection carrying a blank escutcheon, and the Von Duprin 210K-BE pairs a knob with a blank escutcheon for 22 series devices. Both are exterior-side cover, not entry. The Delaney 500L is the opposite call: entrance function with a keyed lever, and its escutcheon covers a stock hollow metal door with a 161 cutout.

The Delaney 500L is an escutcheon-style trim with a CT lever, so its plate spans the door prep. If your standard is a rose, the Marks USA M195F is a storeroom function lever and rose trim with spring loaded roses for the M9900 touchbar, and the M195N is a lever and rose trim in the M195 series. The Arrow SRX01 is a Sierra lever with rose in passage function. The tradeoff is coverage: a rose leaves an existing 161 cutout or old escutcheon scar exposed, which is why escutcheon trim is the usual choice on retrofit hollow metal doors.

The Delaney 500L is ADA compliant, which is the point of a lever over a knob: it operates without tight grasping, pinching or twisting of the wrist. If you are specifying to that requirement, stay on lever or push-pull trim. The Von Duprin 210K-BE is a knob with blank escutcheon and the Dexter ED1000T-CLRM-TP-NC is a thumbpiece with pull plate, both different operating motions from a lever. For lever alternatives across other device families, the Falcon 510L, Sargent 704ET and Design Hardware LE08 are all lever trims.