I just spoke to the Fire Marshall, Ron Humphrey, about surge
protectors being used in schools.
He indicated that the regulation that is posted online was written for
health care institutions where they may be using a surge suppressor
that could get run over by a bed or crushed between two pieces of
equipment and then cause problems.
He stated that as long as your device has a UL1449 or ANSI ieeC62.4
1-1980 code on the device it is ok to use in schools.
Schools can use plastic constructed surge protectors BUT are not to be
using power strips without surge protection at all... anywhere.
I have included a link to the Fire Marshall's Surge Protection ruling
in case you wanted to read it.
http://www.dps.state.ia.us/fm/inspection/PDFs/surge_protector.pdf
Bud Carruthers
Iowa Educators Consortium
AV Co-op Coordinator
319-753-6561 x1157
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Bud Carruthers wrote:
I did just hear about this issue and am looking into it further.
Yes, I will be offering some metal housed surge suppressors but they
may not make it into the catalog when it first goes online.
Thanks for the suggestions below. If anyone else has a favorite
brand or model as options that I should look at please let me know.
Bud
On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Buenz, Tim wrote:
Hi Bud,
Not sure you are aware of this surge protector ruling in 2007 by
that state fire marshall’s office or not that is discussed below.
No one appears to know anything about it. I am wondering if you
could offer some more metal surge protector solutions on this years
AV Coop. I see there is one TrippLite option (rather pricey for a
large quantity purchase) available on the AV Coop website now. We
will be looking to replace lots of these plastic models in the
future if we get cited by the fire marshall.
Here are some other possible options:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199275
http://www.fellowes.com/fellowes/resourcecenter/products/ProductDetails.aspx?Id=99081
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=P6M10
Thanks-
Tim
From: tec...@ed.iowa.gov [mailto:tec...@ed.iowa.gov]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:31 PM
To: Buenz, Tim
Subject: RE:[techcd] Surge Protectors
Hi,
I have never heard of this either. I did find this document on
their website after doing a search. I would guess all schools in
the state have this issue.
http://www.dps.state.ia.us/fm/inspection/PDFs/surge_protector.pdf
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Tim Buenz
Director of Technology
Jefferson-Scranton Comm. Schools
204 W. Madison Street
Jefferson, IA 50129
(515)386-9256
Fax (515)386-3591
http://www.jscsd.org
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future" -John F. Kennedy
From: tec...@ed.iowa.gov [mailto:tec...@ed.iowa.gov]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:22 PM
To: Buenz, Tim
Subject: [techcd] Surge Protectors
Glenwood Community School District just finished our Fire Marshall
inspection for our new high school and we were told some
interesting “technology” information. We were told that all of our
current APC surge protectors needed to be replaced with metal ones
and that any plastic ones were no longer acceptable for compliance.
Since I had no clue this was a new state regulation – I’m wondering
if anyone else knew this information. We have approximately 600 of
these we will need to replace.
I asked the Fire Marshall how we would have found out about this
new regulation and he replied we should have read it on the State
Fire Marshall’s webpage.
Are we the only district who didn’t have any clue about this new
regulation?
Nancy Dashner
Tech Coordinator
PowerSchool Administrator
Glenwood Community School District
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