Re: 4 wire smokes and EOL's

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On May 15, 12:34=EF=BF=BDam, CH=EF=BF=BDIS <s...@xxxxx> wrote:
> "Robert L Bass" wrote...
> > "CH=EF=BF=BDIS" wrote:
>
> >> Although now I see why you'd just have one resistor. =EF=BF=BDI was th=
inking
> >> since it's an "open circuit", it's open, but it's not. =EF=BF=BDHoweve=
r, if
> >> they're all home run, there's no supervision for the rest of the smoke=
s
> >> on that zone.
>
> > That is exactly right, Chris. =EF=BF=BDSo, unless you have lots of spar=
e zones
> > available, you will want to wire the smokes to a single zone (in the
> > manner Graham suggested). =EF=BF=BDSince smoke detectors have latching =
LEDs to
> > tell you which one is in an alarm state, it's OK to have them all in a
> > single zone or, perhaps, one zone per major area of the premises. =EF=
=BF=BDWe used
> > to run one fire zone per floor on residential jobs in Connecticut. =EF=
=BF=BDThat
> > way, the homeowner could see on the keypad if the problem was in the
> > basement, first or second floor.
>
> In this case I don't have any spare zones, and there are only a few homer=
un
> smokes anyway. =EF=BF=BDHowever, it's listed on the keypad and in the fil=
e (never
> trust the file unless i installed it and wrote it) that there's a zone fo=
r
> the main floor smokes, and a zone for the basement smokes. =EF=BF=BDSeems=
 simple
> enough, except that there are a few smokes on the main floor that have
> resistors in them, but not all of them.
>
> Of course this has to be a busy dentist office with no room to work and n=
o
> way to politely be making that much noise testing smokes. =EF=BF=BDAnd of=
 course
> it's the type of building that seems to be renovated so often that it jus=
t
> never stops being renovated. =EF=BF=BDAs soon as one project is done, ano=
ther part
> of the building gets rebuilt.
>
> But really... 9 smokes in probably 3000 square feet? =EF=BF=BDWhat do den=
tists have
> on hand that's so flammable (other than the helium tank for the balloons)=
?
>
> - Chris-

I can only think of two possibilities

It's either got to be their egos or their money.