Re: Connecting two DMP alarms together? Outputs to Zones? Possible?

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would have been impossible. The conduit was big enough, just waaayyyy
tooo long and already under the paved parking lot. I don't remember the
distance but it was at least a 5 min. walk!


"Robert L Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|> I did the Coke plant like that years ago, the fire panel was in the
| > security building waaaaaayyyyy out in the parking lot.
| >
| > It was the longest pull I'd ever done, first we tried a come-along but
| > that was brutal, then a motorized winch (almost worked) finally ended up
| > tying the pull line to the bumper of my jeep and driving really slow!
| >
| > The electricians were idiots, the conduit was all one run...at least it
| > was big and was strung, otherwise it would have been impossible to pull.
|
| I'd have told the electricians to run a new conduit.  Obviously, the one
| they installed was either to small, had too many bends or both.  There are
| limitations on allowable pulling force due to the tendency of the
conductors
| to stretch, effectively reducing the diameter of the conductors and with
it
| their ampacity.  If there had been any coaxial cables for addressable
loops
| in the bundle using such force could render the system inop.
|
| Not saying you did something bad, Flash, but I'd have declined to finish
| until they provided a proper conduit with properly spaced pulling
locations.
|
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|
| Regards,
| Robert L Bass
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