For DoD projects there is this requirement in their standard specs: "The fire pumps shall be operated for a period of at least 10 minutes for each of the starts; except that electric motors over 200 horsepower shall be operated for at least 15 minutes and shall not be started more than 2 times in 10 hours."
Anyone know where this comes from and if there is a real concern with starting pumps more often than that? The pumps in this case are 500 hp if that makes a difference. With 10 starts and stops automatically and 10 manually it'll take a week to do pump acceptance testing. Chris Cahill, PE* Associate Fire Protection Engineer Burns & McDonnell Phone: 952.656.3652 Fax: 952.229.2923 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.burnsmcd.com<http://www.burnsmcd.com/> *Registered in: MN I'm not cantankerous I just express myself vividly. - Antonin Scalia _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
