Re: Automatic resetting fire panel :(

["James" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

:)


"Michael B. Baker" <mbbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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
> >> 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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