Dexter ED1500T Series Grade 1 Exit Device Trim with Regular Lever

The ED1500 Series is built for a standard 1-3/4 inch thick door. If your opening is 1-3/8 inch, this is the wrong family and you'd be looking at a trim rated across a thickness range instead, like the Tell EDELT53 escutcheon lever trim or the Pamex E9000, both of which cover thinner doors.

4-1/4 inches. That rules out most narrow stile aluminum storefront doors, which typically run under that. For a genuinely narrow stile opening you want a device and trim built for it, such as the BEST 2900 Series 2901 narrow stile lever trim.

No. Every ED1500 device and trim is non-handed, so one part covers left or right hand openings. That matters if you're stocking spares for a building: you carry one part number instead of two.

Two device sizes cover the range: the 36 inch device fits doors 29 to 36 inches wide, and the 48 inch device fits 33 to 48 inches. The rods are sized for an 84 inch door height.

Yes. The ED1500 is UL Listed as a panic device and UL Listed as a 3-hour fire device. Note that a fire door assembly must latch, so dogging is not usable on the fire rated application even though hex key dogging ships standard on the panic devices.

Trim comes in Classroom and Night Latch functions, each offered with either an escutcheon lever or a key-in-lever round rose, in aluminum paint (689/SP28) or dark bronze paint (695/SP313). Classroom means the key controls whether the outside lever is locked or unlocked; night latch means the key retracts the latch for entry and the lever is otherwise fixed.

That is exactly what it's for. A surface vertical rod device latches at the head and the threshold rather than into the jamb, so a pair of doors can be secured without a center mullion and the full opening stays clear when both leaves swing. If you have a single door in a frame, a rim device is the simpler and usually less expensive way to go.

Treat exit device trim as device-specific: ED1500 trim is made for the Dexter ED1500 device. If you're replacing trim on an existing device, match the trim to that device's series instead, for example the Von Duprin 230DT dummy trim for 22 Series, or the Sargent 744 for their 8700 and 8900 Series surface vertical rod and mortise devices.

The Accentra 446F is an exit device trim with an Augusta lever in classroom function at Grade 1, which is the same function the Dexter ED1500T trim is built in. The Falcon 510L is another classroom function exit device trim, offered as a heavy duty lever trim in the 24/25 Series. The Falcon 179L is also a classroom function lever control trim, in the 1790 Series at a medium duty level. All three cover the same classroom operation, so the choice comes down to which exit device family the trim has to land on.

The Sargent 704ET is a night latch lever exit device trim at Grade 1, heavy duty, in the 700 Series, with field reversible operation. The Sargent 704-ETL is also a night latch lever trim at Grade 1 with a key retract function, in the PE Series, and the Sargent 744 is a Grade 1 night latch trim with freewheeling operation where the key retracts the latch, made for surface vertical rod and mortise 8700 and 8900 Series devices. The Accentra 121NL and the Accentra AU-441F cover the same night latch operation, the 441F with a keyed lever in the Augusta design. The Corbin Russwin VT957ET is a nightlatch escutcheon trim in the ED5000 Series in stamped or formed stainless steel. Since the Dexter ED1500T is offered in night latch as well as classroom, match on the device series the trim mounts to.

The Dexter ED1500T trim is mechanical, operated by key and lever. For electric release, the Command Access ET15, ET25 and ET26 are electrified exit trims running 12V or 24V with fail safe and fail secure options, the ET26 built to Grade 1 with a field reversible design, and the Command Access 230L is an electrified trim for Von Duprin V96, 36 and 23 Series devices. The Falcon 510L-FSA/FSE is an electrified heavy duty lever trim in the 25 Series, and the Von Duprin E360L-BE-03 is a Grade 1 electric passage trim with an 03 lever, fail safe, for 33 and 35A Series devices. Fail safe unlocks on power loss and fail secure stays locked, so pick against the egress and security requirement for that door.

Dummy and blank escutcheon trims mount in the same place and take the same lever, but they do not operate the device. The Detex 02BN is a dummy S-lever trim with a blank escutcheon for Value Series devices, the Von Duprin 230DT is a dummy trim with a heavy duty 10 gauge steel escutcheon for 22 Series, and the Von Duprin 210K-BE is a knob trim with a blank escutcheon for 22 Series. The Falcon 212L is a blank escutcheon lever trim in the 20 Series. None of these retract the latch. Passage trims are the other near miss: the Arrow SRX01 with a Sierra lever, the Corbin Russwin 3310AET, x810ET and x910ET are all passage function, meaning the outside lever always operates and the opening is never locked. The Dexter ED1500T is a classroom or night latch trim, which is keyed control the passage and dummy trims do not provide.

The Dexter ED1500 devices the ED1500T trim goes with are UL listed panic devices and UL Listed 3-hour fire devices. Among lever trims for that duty, the Sargent 704ET and 704-ETL are Grade 1 heavy duty night latch trims, the Sargent 744 is Grade 1 night latch for surface vertical rod and mortise 8700 and 8900 Series devices, and the Von Duprin E360L-BE-03 is a Grade 1 heavy duty trim. Note that the Accentra 121NL, 426F, 441F and 446F trims carry a fire rating of No, so those are the ones to rule out on a fire door.

One universal hardware pack ships with the device and covers both wood and hollow metal doors, so you don't pick a fastener kit at order time. The mechanism case is aluminum and deadlatching is standard.

It's a Grade 1 commercial device, the heaviest of the three ANSI/BHMA duty grades, and it's specified as commercial rather than residential. Classroom function trim is offered, which is what most school corridor and classroom openings call for.

Yes, exit only is the base trim configuration, meaning no outside operating lever, so the door is exit only from the inside and secure from the outside. If you want the same arrangement with an outside pull for grabbing the door, the BEST 1700 Series wide stile pull trim is that kind of exit only trim.

Yes, but it is a different trim than the Dexter ED1500T lever trim. The Dormakaba E-Plex 201U is an electronic pushbutton exit trim in the E-Plex 2000 Series for wide stile doors, and the Dormakaba PowerPlex P201U is an exit trim for rim, mortise and surface vertical rod devices in the PowerPlex 2000 Series. The Dormakaba E-Plex 5067 is a mechanical pushbutton lock in mortise form for wide stile. A pushbutton trim gives code access without issuing keys, where the ED1500T trim relies on a cylinder.

Entry function trims unlock the outside lever with a key and can be left unlocked, which is different from the classroom operation the Dexter ED1500T trim provides. The Design Hardware LE08 is a Grade 1 entry function exit trim with a flat lever and escutcheon for the 1000R and 2000R devices, and the Design Hardware KIL entry trim is Grade 1 entry function with a flat lever in the Schlage C keyway for 1000 and 2000 Series devices. The Tell EDELT53 is a keyed entry escutcheon lever trim for doors 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch. The Delaney 500L is offered in entrance function with CT, MD and SD lever styles.

No. 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 device trim - it is the cylinder that retracts the latch, with no lever or escutcheon to grip. The Design Hardware 2P-03NL is a Grade 1 pull trim with a cylinder hole in night latch function for 1000R and 2000R devices, which pairs the cylinder with a pull instead of a lever. The Dexter ED1500T night latch versions are lever trim, offered with an escutcheon lever or a key-in-lever round rose. If the buyer expects a handle on the outside, the cylinder assembly alone will not satisfy it.

The escutcheon carries a full plate behind the lever, the rose a round trim ring. The Dexter ED1500T is offered both ways, as an escutcheon lever and as a key-in-lever round rose, in aluminum painted and dark bronze painted. Among peers, the Accentra 426F Augusta lever and the Corbin Russwin VT957ET are escutcheon trims, the Corbin Russwin in stamped or formed stainless steel, while the Arrow SRX01 uses a Sierra lever with rose and the Marks USA M195F and M195N are lever and rose trims, the M195F with spring loaded roses. Escutcheon covers more of the old prep on a retrofit; rose leaves more of the door face exposed.