Dexter ED1500 Series Nightlatch Function Exit Device Trim with Handle Pull Plate

Nightlatch trim gives you a fixed pull plate with a cylinder: the key retracts the latch to let you in from outside, and there is no lever or knob that operates the device. When the door is not dogged, it stays locked from outside until someone keys it. Push the touchbar from inside and you always get out. If you want free outside entry during business hours, the ED1500 panic devices come with hex key dogging standard so you can hold the touchbar depressed instead.

No. The ED1500 Series is built for a standard 1-3/4 inch thick door. For a 1-3/8 inch opening you need trim rated to that thickness, such as the Tell EDPT pull trim with cylinder hole, which covers 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches.

Yes. The ED1500 Series is a Grade 1 device, UL listed as a panic device and UL Listed as a 3-hour fire device. Note that fire doors cannot be dogged, so on a fire opening the nightlatch trim is how anyone gets in from outside.

The Design Hardware 2P-03NL pull trim is the nearest match in form and function: it is a pull trim with a cylinder hole, night latch function, Grade 1, built for the 1000R and 2000R exit devices. The Tell EDPT exit device pull trim is a similar pull-style trim with a cylinder hole supplied less cylinder, rated for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors. Both give you the same key-retracts-latch pull arrangement the Dexter ED1500 nightlatch trim provides, but each is built for its own manufacturer's device chassis, so confirm the device series before ordering.

Several nightlatch trims use a lever rather than the handle pull plate found on the Dexter ED1500 nightlatch trim. The Sargent 704ET is a Grade 1 heavy duty night latch lever trim with field reversible operation for the 700 Series, and the Sargent 704-ETL offers night latch lever trim with key retract for PE Series devices. The Corbin Russwin VT957ET is a nightlatch escutcheon trim in stamped or formed stainless steel for ED5000 Series devices, and the Dorma YR03R is a wide stile nightlatch escutcheon lever trim supplied less cylinder. A lever gives an ADA-friendly grip; the pull plate gives a fixed handle with no moving lever.

The Dexter ED1500 trim is nightlatch function, meaning the key retracts the latch and the outside trim does not give free passage. For an opening that should stay operable from outside, look at passage-function trims such as the Corbin Russwin 3310AET for ED300 Series devices, the Corbin Russwin x810ET for ED4000 Series, the x910ET heavy duty trim for ED5200S/ED5200/ED5400/ED5800, or the Arrow SRX01 Sierra lever with rose for ED910, S1150 and S1250 devices. For a keyed lever that locks, the Design Hardware KIL storeroom trim or the Tell EDELT80 storeroom trim are the storeroom-function options.

The Dexter ED1500 Series devices are UL listed panic and UL listed 3-hour fire devices, and the trim is part of that family. The Accentra 121NL nightlatch trim, 426F and 446F Augusta lever trims, and AU-441F nightlatch keyed lever trim are each listed with a fire rating of No, so they are not the choice for a fire door assembly. Stay with a trim carried as fire-rated for that opening.

Plan on supplying the cylinder separately. The trim is the pull plate and escutcheon that mounts to the device; the rim cylinder is what actually retracts the latch, and it has to match your building keyway and keying. Mounting hardware for the trim itself is covered by the universal hardware pack, which suits both wood and hollow metal doors.

Two device lengths span standard commercial leaves: the 36 inch device fits doors 29 to 36 inches wide, and the 48 inch device fits 33 to 48 inches. Pick the device by leaf width first; the nightlatch pull trim is the same either way.

Pull trim like the Dexter ED1500 nightlatch is the choice where the outside is key access only, for back of house, stair discharge, and service doors. Where the opening needs a lever that operates the device, look at lever trim instead: Sargent 704ET is a night latch lever with field reversible operation, and Falcon 510L is a heavy duty classroom function lever trim. A lever trim costs you more moving parts on a door that may only ever be a key-in opening.

It can, if the device under it is the surface vertical rod version. The ED1500 is offered as a rim or SVR device; the SVR latches at the head and the threshold, so it secures a pair without a center mullion. A rim device on a pair needs a mullion between the leaves.

It is a commercial Grade 1 device with an aluminum mechanism case and deadlatching standard, which is the top ANSI/BHMA durability tier for exit devices. Deadlatching matters on an exterior door because it blocks the latch from being carded back.

Electrified and credential-based trims cover that. The Command Access ET15, ET25 and ET26 electrified exit trims run 12V or 24V with fail safe and fail secure options, with the ET26 in Grade 1 field reversible construction, and the Command Access 230L electrifies the Von Duprin 230L trim for V96/36/23 Series devices. For standalone keypad entry, the Dormakaba E-Plex 201U electronic pushbutton exit trim and the PowerPlex P201U trim for rim, mortise and SVR devices are the pushbutton options. All of these replace key-only re-entry with electric or code release, where the Dexter ED1500 nightlatch trim is purely mechanical.

The Dexter ED1500 Series is Grade 1. Peer Grade 1 trims include the Sargent 704ET and 704-ETL heavy duty night latch lever trims, the Sargent 744 freewheeling key-retracts-latch trim for 8700 and 8900 Series surface vertical rod and mortise devices, the Pamex E9000 storeroom trim for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors, the Design Hardware KIL entry and storeroom trims, and the Von Duprin 210K-BE knob with blank escutcheon for 22 Series. Match the trim to the device series you already have on the door.

Not a like-for-like one. The Von Duprin 110MD-NL is a night latch cylinder assembly for metal and wood doors, Grade 1 heavy duty, for 22, 55 and 98/99 exit trim applications - it provides the keyed cylinder function without the handle pull plate that comes with the Dexter ED1500 nightlatch trim. If the door needs a graspable outside handle as well as key retraction, the cylinder assembly alone will not give you that.

For keyed entry on the outside, the Design Hardware LE08 is a Grade 1 entry function trim with a flat lever and escutcheon for 1000R and 2000R devices, the Design Hardware KIL entry trim uses a Schlage C keyway flat lever for 1000 and 2000 Series, and the Tell EDELT53 escutcheon lever trim is entry function for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors. Delaney also offers the 500L entrance function exit trim in CT, MD and SD lever styles. These give outside lever operation where the Dexter ED1500 nightlatch trim uses a fixed handle pull plate with key retraction.

The Falcon 179L for 1790 Series devices and the Falcon 212L escutcheon trim for 20 Series devices are both medium duty, the 179L in classroom function and the 212L as a blank escutcheon lever trim with shear pin protection. The Falcon 510L is the heavy duty classroom trim for 24/25 Series if you want to stay closer to the Grade 1 duty level the Dexter ED1500 Series carries. Medium duty suits interior and low cycle openings; high traffic entrances are where the heavy duty trims earn their keep.