Jay Jay, You can use that air compressor to manually refill the system as long as it does it in thirty minutes and meet code. You can then leave the little guy on or maintenance. Code requires maintenance some way: automatic or manual and that a means is "available" to refill the system within thirty minutes.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Jay Jay Blocker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been presented with a question that I hope you all could help me > with. Inside of a recycling building at a waste facility we have a 6" dry > system. The air compressor is a riser mount single piston that takes 3 hours > and 17 minutes to fill the system back up after trip. The customer has a 50 > gallon vertical on the opposite end of the building that has 1 airhose hooked > up to it used for tires. The comppressor is hardly ever used and is bolted > to the floor and hard wired on a dedicated circuit. Next to the compressor > is a low point drum drip. If a UL listed air maintenance device is installed > can that compressor be tied into the system even though it is at the back of > the system. I cant find anything that says you cant do this but Im not sure > im looking in the right spot. > > The suggestion was made to install a t above the top valve of the drum drip. > Im stumped. > > J > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, WSAFM _______________________________________________ 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)
