Re: AC Smoke interconnection

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

I had a commercial  customer whose insurance company was insisting that they
have the fire sprinkler system connected to the existing burglar alarm
system, a DSC 5010 (less than a 100 heads so monitoring wasn't a code
requirement). I told them that we couldn't do that as the panel isn't listed
for that use and we would have to submit plans for a separate Fire alarm
control panel. The customer came back and said that the insurance company
told them that it wasn't necessary to submit plans and that it was
acceptable to connect it to the existing panel and suggested that perhaps I
was just engaged in a "make work" project (don't waste your breath RLB) . I
told them to have the insurance company put it in writing (we still wouldn't
have done it) and suggested they call the local Fire Dept. and building
dept. to get their opinion. I never heard back from them.


Doug.

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"Roland More" <NoSpamroland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >I have yet to see a "UL Listed damper switch", yet such
>>interconnection is done all the time.
> Those things can be so hard to get to I can't say that I have ever looked
> for the UL sticker. It's a fire damper, you assume it's UL listed.
>
> We had a situation where a customer decided (after the fact) that (because
> of the insurance company) he needed to have residential 120VAC smokes
> monitored via relay output. Even though it was just residential we
> couldn't get any AHJ to bless it, so we bailed. The insurance company did
> find an unlicensed (had burglar license not fire) trunk slammer (that
> wasn't even a dealer for the brand of system installed) to make the
> connection, and we turned the account over to him. Too much liability and
> false alarm potential to keep that sort of business. Although this was
> done at the insurance company's insistence, if something went wrong the
> insurance company would be first in line to suck you into a lawsuit.
>
>