Re: 110 VAC Fire Alarms

["Matthew Stanley" <mstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I think the building was installed in the early 80's. Its a motel
building. The Office is out front and then there are two  2 story buildings
with rooms on each side on the rear of the lot. they are not attached by any
means. each building has 2 stairs on the ends. So the pull stations are
located at the ends of the buildings by the steps while the bells are
located in the middle of the buildings along the walkways. So each building
has 4 bells and 4 pulls..

When i got there to see what they had, the owner told me that they had done
some work and last year when they pulled one of the stations it worked fine.
Then he said they installed some sofit around the eves. Well, on the top
floor, they covered the bells. so those will have to be lowered.

I have the NFPA forms for test and I was going to just put exactly what they
had. Show that its not supervised and it runs on 110VAC with no back up
power.

But i have to wait to see if he wants me to test it. I told him I would
charge $100.00 to do it but from the way he looked, he probably thought I
was high on the price.

M




"Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What fire code standards have been adopted in that area? Was the system
> permitted originally and under what standard? That would speak more to the
> grandfather issue.  My understanding is the AHJ can increase but not
> decrease coverage standards. If you can't find where it was originally
> code
> compliant and under what standard I don't know how you could tag it as
> being
> compliant currently (grandfathered). I say red tag it and let the owner
> and
> the AHJ figure it out. Once it's all down in writing from them on what to
> do
> you can make you move. That way someone else's butt is on the line and not
> yours.
>
> "Matthew Stanley" <mstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Tg16j.3093$Vq.2614@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I was called to a potintial customer today. They needed their fire alarm
>> system tested. When I arrived, I found that it was 4 pull stations wired
> to
>> 4 4" edwards 110VAC adaptabells.
>>
>>
>> The owner told me that they never needed it inspected before but now the
>> fire marshal was needing something showing it works. What do you guys do
> if
>> you run into this situation.
>>
>> I have only seen this setup once and the fire marshal forced them to
> replace
>> the system since it was not supervised and it had no back up power.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for all replies......
>>
>>
>> M
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