David, Could you put my pending proposals onto your list also. It would really help me out. Mille ringraziamenti
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:46 AM, David de Vries <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that is dumb. Not only does 13 not require electrical air supervision, > 25 only requires that the gauge on the air side be checked once a week. Yet > in the '08 edition of 25, we now require an air pressure test at 40 psi for > two hours. If it drops more than 3 psi in that time, then air leaks must be > addressed. Sounds like we need to require either electrical air supervision > on all dry systems or recorded inspections of gauges not less than daily. > > This entire subject area needs to be coordinated in 13 and 25. No Roland, I > am not volunteering to prepare the proposals, but will put it on my "when all > caught up on everything else list, do it" to do list. > > Dave > > David A. de Vries, P.E., CSP > Firetech Engineering Incorporated > > > --- On Fri, 3/19/10, Roland Huggins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Roland Huggins <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Hard wired air compressors > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:54 AM > > > This question and especially the leap to impairment if not hard-wired > started off with a false premise. Who says the air supply has to be > automatic? It is certainly a best practice which we virtually always > do, but if the owner is happy with using a manual air supply, that > complies. Now isn't that dumb! > > Roland > > On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Greg McGahan wrote: > >> This is a friendly discussion and not a conflict. However, please see >> the interpretation below. >> >> >> >> 13-7.2.6.2.1 states, the air supply shall be from a source available >> at >> all times. A plug-in air compressor is portable and would not meet >> the >> 'all times' criteria. Hence, my interpretation that the compressor >> would have to be hard wired. >> >> >> >> Has this been discussed previously? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> Greg McGahan >> >> Operations Manager >> >> >> >> Living Water Fire Protection >> >> 1160 McKenzie Road >> >> P.O. Box 877 >> >> Cantonment, Florida 32533 >> >> (850) 937.1850 | Fax (850) 937.1852 | Cell (850) 554.3231 >> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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) > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College Tacoma, WA Member: SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC _______________________________________________ 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)
