Re: NFPA Code Question

["Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Attics are notoriously hot here.  This house is a three story home in West
University Place, a real upper class, yuppie neighborhood.  Its new
construction, you can stand in the attic w/ no problem and the undlayment
for the roof is a material called "Cool Ply".  The attics in homes with the
Cool Ply do not really get too hot.  The panel is at the head of the attic
stairway so you don't have to actually go into the attic to access it, just
stand on the stairs.

I don't think it is a code violation.  I would not normally install a panel
in an unfinished attic such as this, but other than a diminished battery
life, I don't see any real problem.

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Thanks Nick,
>> It is a residential home alarm (Networx 6) with smoke detectors wired in.
>> No need to access the panel.  The keypads are the remotes.  I know that I
>> would not have tagged for this.
>> Allan
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> What kind of attic are we talking about here? Is it insulated, finished,
> heated, etc? Can you stand up in there? Or is it like the ones we have
> with
> a 4 in 12 max pitch where the poor service tech has to crawl up there in
> 150
> degree heat to service the panel? How do your batteries and circuit boards
> hold up?
> js
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