Re: Radio shack burg panel being used as apartment fire alarm

[Jim Rojas <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mleuck wrote:
> On Nov 18, 5:06 pm, nick markowitz<nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> Saw it all today  some one piped in pull stations and smokes etc to
>> then tie it into a Radio shack Safe House burg panel with a fire loop
>> and this along with one strobe horn served as the fire alarm for the
>> building to make matters worse an alarm company took and installed a
>> NX-8-CF in basement tied it to the safehouse panel  so the NX8-cf
>> could  be used as a fire dialer and no keypad or local sounder on the
>> NX8 set up.
>> talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen.
>
> Sounds like something a DIY'er would do

These kind of setups were an industry norm before NFPA 72 came into
play. Then the AHJ took almost 15+ years to catch up with the standards.
Even with all the new standards, many fire marshals still have no clue.

Jim Rojas