Re: Fire Side Chat -- Fire Alarm Code Issue

["Norm Mugford" <1alarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank.......the code he references is the
code according to Bass.......
He gets like that when he leaves the country for
long periods.......

Norm Mugford

"Frank Olson" <feolson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert L. Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> What part of what Al wrote about
> >> interconnecting smoke alarms to a
> >> security system says "fire alarm"?
> >
> > In the USA fire alarm code applies to smoke detectors and anything else
> > used to detect and warn of fire.  Using something which is not listed
for
> > the purpose doesn't turn a non-compliant installation into a compliant
> > one.  If the system includes smoke or fire detectors then it is a fire
> > alarm and it is subject to code (wherever code actually exists).  I
> > included the parenthetical phrase only because there are still a small
> > percentage of communities where there is no code at all.
>
>
> Show me the part of the code that magically converts a burglar alarm panel
> to a fire alarm system with the addition of fire detectors!  You keep
> "flogging this poor horse" Robert.  Give it up.  You are wrong.
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