Product Labelling
Apollo products can be identified by their serial number or date
code. However, due to factored products and changes within Apollo
to improve production, the number formats have changed over
time.
The information below gives details on the differences in serial
numbering and date coding.
For information on how to determine the age of an Apollo device,
please click
here.
Previous Version:
Apollo has always applied an individual serial number to all
detectors and interfaces in order to identify individual products
after they have been installed.
The original serial numbered label will look like the
highlighted illustration below:

Revised Version:
With modern manufacturing techniques, it has become clear that this
individual identification is no longer necessary and we have
therefore decided to identify products by date of manufacture only.
The production date is therefore the serial number.
An official Apollo date coded label will look like the highlighted
illustration below:

Latest Revised Version:
Due to customer response, Apollo now identifies individual
products with a date code. This new and revised label looks like
the highlighted illustration below:
