George, You are right about the Clarke branch office in the UK, but as I understood, if you want a listed PLD it has to come from Cincinnati. BTW, overhere we are not allowed to dump water in the parking lot. You have to pipe it back to the suction tank or over the dikes.;)
Frans Stoop TOS architecture & fire protection Netherlands <[email protected]> Tel. +31-24-324 0112 At 14:44 6-4-2010 -0400, you wrote: >All it would take is one failure at the wrong time and your water is in the >parking lot instead of coming out the sprinklers. > >Clarke doesn't have PLDs in the UK market? >189-229 Lomond Road, Coatbridge, ML5 2, GB >Tel: 44-0-1236-429-946 > >Todd, swapping the controller out for a variable speed one could easily be >$75k for the controller on an electric; makes a break tank economically >feasible. Might could swap out a diesel for a one with a listed PLD that is >also listed with that pump. > >#20 has guidance on sizing break tanks, it's not just what you need minus >what you got = what ya store. > >We did a "green" 3,000 GPM diesel pump last year, flowmeter to pump suction. >I don't like to pump to suction, but they were adamant so that's what they >got. > >glc _______________________________________________ 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)
