Never deal woth modeling. Actual flow tests only. Most of thje modeling I see is crap.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 02:52:13 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: NFPA 25 Proposed Routine Water Supply Testing Once a test like a flow test is commenced I'm used to the requirement to continue flowing water until water is material free. On the typical casual basis this is water into a styrofoam cup, until a couple grabbed samples in a row show no material. Have your reading glasses on. Otherwise another water system user may be negatively impacted, ie. have product ruined. A flow test uses an amazing amount of water. 50K gallons would not be exceptional. Has anyone asked who is going to pay for the water? It's not free. I'm used to seeing modeling results for design. Is anyone still doing the pitot routine? Yours, Bruce Verhei ----- Original Message ----- From: "David de Vries" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2009 9:06:48 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: NFPA 25 Proposed Routine Water Supply Testing There is a proposal in NFPA 25 to require water supply testing for sprinkler systems every 5 years. No trigger, like new, high-demand construction in the area or deterioration in the main drain test results -- just every 5 years run the test. This passed the committee on a vote of 24 to 5. Anybody out there doing water supply testing for existing systems when there is no indication of a deteriorated supply? Any owners asking for it? Sorry for the late heads-up. Comments on this, and all the rest of the 205 proposals, are due to NFPA by 5:00 p.m. EDT Friday. I will be up early to prep some comments myself. Dave David A. de Vries, P.E., CSP Firetech Engineering Incorporated --- _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
