Re: Automatic resetting fire panel :(

["Michael B. Baker" <mbbaker@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're right on. Until you find out what will blow the AHJ's skirt up, it's
all guess work.

"Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Everytime I do a Commercial Fire Installation I get such a warm fuzzy
> feeling.
> I've even had a Fire Marshall tell me he didn't care about ADA, nor does
> the
> City enforce it.
> He even had the balls to say this to me in front of a customer (and
> building
> owner)
> You know the drill Mike. Everything is just a reference. Problem is
> everywhere you go, figuring out which book the AHJ's are following at the
> time. If you don't have a good relationship, you won't go far. I couldn't
> get any looser.....
>
> "Michael B. Baker" <mbbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:CI-dnajYFoxlPdHfRVn-gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Loosen up and tell us how you really feel!
>>
>> "Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:pd-dnVfknd0y9dHfRVn-uA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Gotta love the NFPA....Shall be...Shall be...blah blah blah,....other
> than
>> > approval from the AHJ.
>> > AHJ, AHJ, AHJ. I could have shortened the book by several hundred
>> > pages.
>> > What do you think Mike. (I'm kidding of course) :^)-Happy face off ;^(
>> >
>> > "Michael B. Baker" <mbbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:gZGdnTi-mdZUrNHfRVn-2g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> NFPA 72-2002 6.8.2.7  Protected premises fire alarm control units
>> >> shall
>> >> be
>> >> capable of being reset or silenced only from the control unit at the
>> >> protected premises unless otherwise permitted by 6.8.2.8.
>> >> 6.8.2.8  Remote resetting and silencing of a fire alarm control unit
> from
>> >> other than the protected premises shall be permitted with the approval
> of
>> >> the authority having jurisdiction.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:hYqdnQWTX7Pv8NbfRVn-sA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > Today i was installing a communicator on a notifier fire panel.
>> >> > This
>> >> > panel
>> >> > is in one of many buildings that a manufacturing company had owned.
>> >> > The
>> >> > building I was working in is going to be a "Tech School" vocational
>> >> > college.
>> >> > Once I was done installing the communicator I ran a test on the fire
>> > alarm
>> >> > panel to check the reporting.  I pulled a pull statoin and the fire
>> > alarm
>> >> > went into alarm, a few seconds later it silenced and reset "by
> itself".
>> > I
>> >> > tried running several more tests all with the same results.  After
>> >> > about
>> >> > an
>> >> > hour of locating devices and tracing wires I figured out the panel
> has
>> >> > a
>> >> > remote annunciator in another building about 7 buildings away.  This
>> >> > building was still in posession of the manufacturing firm and they
> had
>> > "24
>> >> > hour security".  The security personell were silencing and resetting
>> >> > the
>> >> > fire alarm withought verrifying what was going on.  I would have
>> >> > thought
>> >> > they would have dispatched the fire department and sent a runner to
>> > check
>> >> > the building before they silence the horns, let alone reset
> everything
>> >> >
>> >> > James.
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