DynaLock 9300 Series Armored Door Cords

The DynaLock 9300 Series is a flexible armored door cord, the protective loop that carries low-voltage wiring from the frame across the hinge gap into the door leaf. Any time you power something mounted in the door itself (an electrified lock, a request-to-exit switch, a contact) the wire has to survive being flexed every time the door swings and has to be shielded from tampering. That is what the armored cord does. It is a commercial installation accessory, not a lock or a switch on its own.

The difference is wire. The 9300 is the armor only, 18 inches long, supplied less wires, so you pull your own conductors through it and pick your own gauge and count. The 9350 is the same 18 inch armored cord already loaded with three 24 inch wires. If you are running a two-wire circuit for a mag lock or a three-wire monitored device and want it ready to land, take the 9350. If you need a gauge or conductor count the 9350 does not give you, or you are transferring more than three circuits, take the 9300 and pull your own.

Different mounting problems. An armored cord is a surface loop between frame and door, visible, quick to install, and it does not require the door or frame to be prepped or the hinge to be swapped, so it is the usual choice on a retrofit or where you cannot mortise. A concealed pin transfer such as the RCI 9500/9501 mortise pin transfer buries the crossing inside the edge of the door and frame instead, which is cleaner looking and harder to tamper with but needs both the door and jamb machined for it. If aesthetics or vandal exposure drive the job, go concealed. If speed and no drilling drive it, use the 9300.

Usually not. A standard surface magnetic lock puts the magnet on the frame or header and only an armature plate on the door, so all the wiring stays on the fixed side and no transfer is needed. You need an armored cord when something powered actually lives in the door leaf: an electrified exit device, an electrified mortise lock, a door position or latch monitor switch, or a request-to-exit switch in the panic. That is the deciding question, not the lock type.

The DynaLock 9300 is a flexible armored door cord, 18 inches long, that runs the wiring across the hinge gap on the face of the door and frame, and the 9350 is the same 18 inch armored cord supplied with three 24 inch wires already pulled. Where the transfer has to be hidden inside the door and frame instead, the RCI 9500/9501 series mortise pin transfer is the concealed approach: it is a tamper-resistant mortise pin transfer rated 1.5A at 24VAC. The tradeoff is preparation - the armored cord mounts to prepared surfaces and needs no mortise pocket, while the 9500/9501 requires the door edge and jamb to be mortised for the transfer body.

No - they solve the same problem with different door prep. The RCI 9500/9501 is a mortise pin transfer with a tamper-resistant design rated 1.5A at 24VAC, so the current it will carry is fixed by that rating and it seats in a mortise pocket cut into the door edge and jamb. The DynaLock 9300 armored door cord is an 18 inch flexible armored loop that mounts across the hinge side without mortising, and the 9350 version arrives with three 24 inch wires run through it. On a retrofit where the door is already hung and you do not want to pull it to route a mortise, the armored cord is the one that fits the existing opening; on new prep where a concealed appearance matters, the pin transfer is the one to specify.

Armor length is 18 inches on both the 9300 and the 9350. On the 9350 the three conductors run 24 inches, longer than the armor so you have tails at each end to land in the frame box and at the device in the door. Plan your junction point within roughly that 24 inch reach; if the electrified device sits further into the leaf than the wire will comfortably run, you are splicing inside the door, which most integrators would rather avoid.

Yes. The armored cord is brand neutral. It is a conduit for low voltage conductors, so it carries whatever the device on the door needs, from any manufacturer, as long as your conductor count and gauge fit the armor. Nothing about it keys to DynaLock hardware. Match the wire to the device, not the cord to the brand.

The cord handles the crossing between frame and door. On the power side you still need a supply: a transformer such as the Adams Rite 4605, which takes 115 VAC to 12 or 24 VAC with a 40 volt-amp output, is the kind of component that feeds a low voltage access control circuit. If you are switching several outputs, a relay distribution board like the Locknetics RDB4 with four outputs handles the distribution. And on the 9300 version you supply the conductors yourself, since it ships less wires.

No. The DynaLock 9300 and 9350 armored door cords carry conductors across the hinge gap and nothing more - the 9350 comes with three 24 inch wires in the 18 inch armored jacket, and the 9300 comes less wires. The signal itself has to come from a switch in the hardware. Command Access field installable kits cover that side: the CRSREXKIT-ED is a field installable request to exit kit for Cal Royal 22/98 and Sargent 80 series with an SPDT switch, the CYREXKIT-ED is a field REX kit for Corbin 5000 and Yale 7000 exit devices with a 5A rating, and the REX-KIT-ML is a request to exit kit for ML1-series mortise locks. A complete electrified opening usually needs both the switch kit and the transfer.

The DynaLock 9350 armored door cord is supplied with three 24 inch wires already installed in the 18 inch armored jacket, so it is sized for a three-conductor run - typically power plus one monitoring or signal leg. The 9300 is the same 18 inch armored cord furnished less wires, so the installer pulls whatever conductor count and gauge the job calls for, which is the version to order when a device needs more than three conductors or a heavier gauge. If the run is instead a concealed one, the RCI 9500/9501 mortise pin transfer is rated 1.5A at 24VAC and is the concealed equivalent for that duty.

An armored door cord such as the DynaLock 9300 mounts across the hinge gap of a door and frame with surface fasteners, which an all-glass leaf does not offer. For those openings Securitron makes a dedicated glass door accessory line, listed as Grade 2, intended for mounting to glass doors where there is no stile to fasten into. Order the glass door accessories for a frameless or all-glass leaf and keep the 9300 or 9350 armored cord for hollow metal, wood, and framed aluminum doors where the hinge edge accepts fasteners.

It will not. The DynaLock 9300 series is an installation accessory that carries conductors between frame and door; monitoring requires a switch inside the lock. For a Schlage L9000 mortise lock, the Command Access SCHLBMKIT-ML is a field installable latchbolt monitor switch kit in an SPDT configuration. Specify that kit for the latchbolt signal and the 9350 armored cord, which carries three 24 inch wires, to get that signal off the door - or the 9300 less wires if the conductor count needs to be different.

It is a commercial rated door hardware accessory, which is where armored cords belong: office and institutional access control openings, apartment entries, stairwells, anywhere a powered device sits in the leaf. Property managers standardizing across a building can use the same 18 inch cord on every opening regardless of which lock brand is on each door, since the cord does not care what it feeds.

Different parts, different protection. The HES 1000-102 is a Grade 1 rain guard for 1006 series electric strikes, made specifically to shield the strike pocket in rain or high dust areas - it protects the frame-side strike, not the wiring run. The DynaLock 9300 armored cord is a flexible armored jacket over the conductors between frame and door, so its protection is mechanical armor for the cable itself. On an exterior opening with an electric strike you may well need both: the rain guard on the strike and an armored cord or a concealed transfer for the conductors.

No - it is mounting hardware, not a power transfer. The Securitron SB-MXD is an exit delay sex bolt, used to through-bolt delayed egress hardware to the door. The DynaLock 9300 series armored door cords are what carry conductors between the frame and the door leaf, in an 18 inch flexible armored length, with the 9350 furnished with three 24 inch wires. A delayed egress installation that puts an electrified device on the door leaf generally needs the sex bolts for fastening and a door cord or concealed transfer for the wiring, and neither replaces the other.