Found a pull station in the field with a yellow led.

With the announcement of the tariff from Trump, Canada retaliating the same way. People in Canada is ganging to boycott every American products.... good luck in our field

We have a large site roughly 1km sq.

We need our fire alarm to be heard over the whole site.

We have good site wide ethernet and Wi-Fi with POE switches, supported by UPS's, network redundancy etc. at well placed locations.

I thought that a POE IP alarms would be an easy top deploy solution.

I cannot seems to find anything that meets this criteria. Do such things exist?

I have been in the low voltage/ Residential Fire-Burg industry for 7 years mostly in residential. This year I went to a new company who specializes in commercial Fire. Is there a requirement on taking NiCET 1

i’m being given the option for both and in the long run financially and after my apprenticeship classes it’s financially the better option but it’s a mandatory apprenticeship and i have to pass test to get in and i have 0 knowledge on installation so the odds of me passing aren’t high as of right now where as inspections i’ve been doing them and would get a vehicle and gas card but would take a “pay cut” for doing the installation apprenticeship

Any advice? I am taking the test in two days. I have been study using fire tech courses. Thanks! I appreciate any advice

I'm currently studying to take my NICET I and already have my test scheduled in a week and a half. I'm getting a bit scared seeing some people study for months. I'm almost finished with the NTC nicet course and feel pretty good about looking up answers but really have only given myself 3 weeks in total to prepare for it. Should I wait to take it or just give it a try?

Sometimes you just gotta laugh. Seen a lot in my career this gave me a good little chuckle.

I was rear ended and had to go on disability and give up my business as a tech. I've got a garage full of truck stock, including multiple 1280, 12180, 12120, pc2r, p2r, d9127u, d7044, 2wtb, d4120, rts2, rts151, and tons more. I can't deal with listing each of these, packing and selling them on eB@y or anything like that. What would be the quickest and easiest way to unload all of this stuff? I'm located in NEPA, not near any big cities.

Is this sketch I made the correct way to wire SBUS?

I am adding a few 5895XL’s to this system because it’s is extremely slow and laggy at the 6820 FACP. There’s like 11 remote annunciators and a bunch of 6815 expander modules.

Let me know what you guys think!

I heard that my company is going to do BDA SYSTEMS. How hard is the training?

I have a question, Im an electrician with a decent amount of experience in installing Comercial fire alarm systems in the Boston area. Im not great with the tech side of things. Anyway, my question.

I had a customer ask me to change out the smokes in the common areas of their 3 floor apartment building. They have a firelite mini scan 112/124 control panel installed that was installed in 1985 and has since been discontinued.

I have access to some conventional, 2-wire, system sensor, i3 photo smokes. any chance that these will work on this system? Or do I have to break the news to the customer that they need a new control panel.

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Getting "roof spare damper T0002/0004" error.

Which causes the system to start constantly beeping. I can hit "BUZZER SILENCE" but that last for 10-30 minutes before I have to silence it again.

How do I power down the unit?

Edit: Damn, what a toxic and useless subreddit. Normally people ask clarifying questions or provide options. You guys just jump to conclusions and circle jerk. :D

Question guys, if you are the company in charge of doing annual inspections and also maintaining the system, would you yellow tag the system twice for the same reason instead of fixing it? And is it right to yellow tag twice?

Hey everyone!

Just looking to see how others are testing conventional heat detectors. CAN/ULC-S536-19 states that you cannot use a butane pencil which I think is essentially what we are currently using. We have a Bernzomatic butane operated hot blower.

The only other thing I can think of is a Dewalt/Milwakee battery operated heat gun taped to a solo pole (not the most professional looking set up)

And I don’t think the solo heat equipment would be an option as it would pop the disks I would imagine.

Any insight on what others are doing in the field would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance

Older CPU3030D display went bad, installed NCA-2 since no display replacement available. Connected via NUp. Have full control Acknowledge Silence Reset, but unable to view point status. Network mapping shows 3030 offline. Any suggestions would be great.

(Denver Colorado) Hello I’m wondering how much (hourly) I should be compensated for with my licenses Currently 5 year experience NICET 2 Test and Inspect Water Based System Layout ASSE Backflow Certified CSA DENVER FIRE ALARM License CSA DENVER FIRE SPRINKLER License
30 Hour OSHA

Good afternoon

We renewed our Zeus licenses today and I went onto the web site to see if there was a new version and there is, and it's no longer 14.x it's 15.00.0053. the .exe is also 266 MB as opposed to 163 MB for 14.05.0024 so they crammed a lot of stuff in there.

I don't remember reading an announcement in any of the PLN emails nor did I see anything on Siemens' web site, anyone had a chance to play with it and see what they added? Unfortunately I have to get some submittals out the door quickly so I likely won't mess with this until next week, being a desk jockey not a field tech.

Asking for a friend. Was going through a manual and found this. What is PF?

Time to brag! New gear? New crew? On vacation? Personnal troubleshooting techniques? Come'on makes us jealous of you!

The start and end of my day, from a total mess to almost (but not quite) beauty...

Using 2 or all 4 ports for a 60 second transport time, what is the max length the pipe can be? I know alot of factors come into play but there should be some sort of max length the area can cover.