Works for me. Thanks. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:57 PM, David de Vries <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, Ron. And they will receive priority, right behind everything on > Firetech's list, my personal list, Lynda's honey do list and my great ideas > to send to NFPA list. > > Have a great weekend. > > Dave > > David A. de Vries, P.E., CSP > Firetech Engineering Incorporated > 2715 Harrison St. > Evanston, IL 60201 > Tel: 847-733-0944 > Fax: 847-866-6255 > > > > --- On Fri, 3/19/10, Ron Greenman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Ron Greenman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Hard wired air compressors > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 2:09 PM > > > 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) > _______________________________________________ > 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) >
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