Dormakaba Handicapped WS1 Wired Wall Switch

Yes. The WS1 mounts to a standard 4 inch by 4 inch electrical box, and the stainless plate that covers it is 6 inch by 6 inch, so it hides the box and the surrounding cut edges. A heavy duty injection molded black ABS mounting box comes with it, which is what you use when there is no box already in the wall or bollard.

Hard wired only. The WS1 has no transmitter and no battery compartment, so you need to pull wire from the switch location back to the operator control box. If your opening has no path for conduit or wire, this is the wrong actuator for it and you want a radio transmitter push plate instead.

Normally open. The contact closes only while the plate is pressed, which is what a low energy swing door operator expects on its actuator input. Wire it to the operator's dry contact activation terminals, not to a power feed.

Two different jobs, and people order the wrong one constantly. The WS1 is an actuator, a person presses it and it tells the operator to open the door. A door position switch reports whether the door is open or closed back to an access control panel, nobody presses it. If what you actually need is position monitoring, the Schlage Electronics 679-05 magnetic switch line covers it, with a version for wood door and frame, one for hollow metal door and frame, and one for wood door with metal frame.

No. The two do different jobs on the same opening. The 679-05 is a door position switch, a magnetic contact that reports whether the door is closed. The WS1 is a user actuator: a tamper-resistant 6 inch by 6 inch satin stainless wall plate carrying the accessibility symbol and PRESS TO OPEN, with a normally open switch behind it, hard wired back to the operator. A door position switch never initiates an open cycle, and the WS1 never reports door position. On a powered accessible entrance you commonly need both, wired to different inputs.

It is built for it. The plate is flush, which is what gives it the weather resistance, and it works in surface or recessed mounting. The wall plate is satin stainless steel, so you are not fighting rust on an entry vestibule or exterior wall. Wiring still has to be protected and run in conduit like any exterior low voltage run.

Yes, blue engraving on satin stainless showing the accessibility symbol and the words PRESS TO OPEN. That is the marking a facility inspector looks for at an automatic entrance actuator, and it matches the look of the plate across a building if you are standardizing entries.

No. The WS1 is a hard wired press to open actuator for a swing door operator, it does not sense door position and it is not built into an overhead track. For an overhead door you want a status switch made for that application, such as the Schlage Electronics 674-OH door status switch for overhead doors.

Yes, it is sold as a replacement part, plate plus ABS mounting box, and it lands on the same standard 4 inch by 4 inch box the old actuator most likely used. Because the contact is a plain normally open dry closure, it wires to the same two activation terminals on the operator regardless of which brand of operator is on the header.

Those are different functions. The RCI 960 Series is an SPDT switch for second position control, which is the control of a secondary operator position rather than a user-facing open request. The WS1 is the request device the user touches: a normally open switch behind a tamper-resistant stainless plate marked PRESS TO OPEN, hard wired to the operator. Specify the 960 Series for the second position control input and the WS1 for the accessible actuator at the wall.

They sit at opposite ends of the circuit. The 674-OH is a door status switch built for overhead doors, mounted to sense the door leaf and report its state. The WS1 is a hard wired push actuator for people: a satin stainless steel wall plate with blue engraving reading PRESS TO OPEN, fitting a standard 4 inch by 4 inch electrical box over an included heavy-duty injection molded black ABS mounting box. If you are monitoring an overhead door, the 674-OH is the part; if a user needs to signal the operator to cycle a door, the WS1 is.

Schlage Electronics splits the 679-05 magnetic switch by what the door and frame are made of: the 679-05 is specified for a wood door and frame, the 679-05HM for a hollow metal door and frame, and the 679-05WD for a wood door in a metal frame. All three are door position switches. The actuator side is unaffected by frame material - the WS1 mounts to a standard 4 inch by 4 inch electrical box in surface or recessed applications, so the same wall switch serves any of those three openings.

The 6 inch by 6 inch plate is tamper resistant, and it is a commercial rated part, which is why it turns up on school, healthcare and municipal entrances where the plate takes abuse from carts and traffic all day. The ABS mounting box behind it takes the impact load off the drywall.