Re: Automatic resetting fire panel :(

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

Loosen up and tell us how you really feel!

"Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
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>> 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
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>> > 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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