Hi. From Alaska, I got a 5 year old kid who wants a fire alarm set for Christmas, asked for the same thing last year Christmas. Now I’m here desperately looking for help, to see if anyone knows where I could buy one that actually has everything I need to put his fire alarm system on a plywood board or something like that. Pls and thank you.

I have a barn, a house and 2 trailers the kids live in. The barn is 170 feet long. the trailers and house are about 200-300 feet from the barn. My dream system would be a smoke/fire alarm that can sound external horns at all locations in case of a fire at any of the locations. A different tone depending on where would be the best. We do have some old coax and phone lines run between the units. Are there any systems like this available? I have seen some units that can sound all the detectors in the house if one detects but Im not sure they work at those distances.

Alright I’ve worked with silent knight or Honeywell products in general for about 15 years now. In that time I have 100% had blatant quality control issues or the whole new chip manufacturer fiasco

However today I encountered something brand new and want to see if it’s happened to anyone else

I arrived a customer site for their annual inspection of an SK-5808

Checked out the panel, reviewed some event history through the onboard annunciator for the customer.

Next put the panel into walk test and was disabling the horn strobes through the keypad, I had zero tools on anything conductive on me or near the panel when the SLC spontaneously combusted. A pretty major arc flash time blue flame from the corner of the board for what’s supposed to be 24v system in my opinion

So ya anyone else experienced this? Tech support said to email in the picture and see what engineering says. My best guess is that somehow 120v got fed to the SLC. it smoked a monitor module for sure I need to finish getting the system to 100%. I got it back to probly 95% called it good

Post your guys’ worst service call arrival. Let’s see who can post the panel with the most troubles/issues.

Do you guys have any recommendations for audibility testing apps/setups? Any recommendations for intelligibility testing would be welcome too but the immediate need/curiosity is for audibility.

Hey US/Canadian guys from installer firms. In my country (Sweden) companies from ~10 people usually start hiring 1 in house CAD instead of using consultants. Is it the same in the US/Canada? Or is more common to just keep on going with consultants?

I feel really silly asking this but I wanted to be sure as my research has been inconclusive.

I have a first alert fire alarm and CO monitor in my apartment. I admit it’s been a while since I’ve tested it and realized that one light has been solid red for a long while…. Today I tested it, it went through the beeps and now the alarms are a solid green. No chirps or anything.

My question is what color should the system be? Red or green? I want to make sure it’s working properly.

Thank you

Only one I’ve ever had the displeasure of working on.

Not a real complaint, just didn't realize it till now. I think it would be nice. Could help in the technical support posts as well.

Ugh

What does NFPA say?

Looking for codes regarding exterior mounted FACPs

Hi everyone, I'm an idiot and lost my dongle for quick start programming. Does anyone know where I can get another. I can't use my est3 dongle because the pins are different.

Even if someone knows the pin configuration, I can probably make one myself.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241201081134/en/Kidde-Global-Solutions-Acquired-by-Affiliate-of-Lone-Star-Funds

I’m converting an old in op mircom to a new panel. I tried my usual suspects es 200x Mircom 1000 series and the NFW-100x but all of them are out of stock in my area. Y’all got any suggestions for 16 devices inputs(was a conventional panel) with 4 nacs one for each floor

So my registration is expiring soon and I've already emailed the CFAA my CE submittal form so all I need to do is pay for the renewal fee, but I can't for the life of me find where on the website that is. Does anyone have the link to the page or is this something we have to email them directly for it?

I just got a job for a big Siemens dealer in my state they told me I would start training on the cerberous 50 point panel right away. I never programmed anything before and only worked with Siemens a hand full of time what should I expect and what do you guys think I go Siemens as a brand in general?

Does anybody have a PDF version of the operation & installation manual for an Edwards 6616?

I know this is a reach of a request lol.

Afternoon fellas(and ladies), I wanting to know if any of you guys have pursued your NAFED certification? If so, how do you plan to use it moving forward in your career? Are there benefits to having it plus NICET?

Need a heated, outdoor annunciator enclosure similar to (MA1100-4701 Annunciator Enclosure).

Looking for someone to put one together, or for a better price option than Maple Armour.

I just took this out of my house to replace with a newer hard wired alarm. It mentions radioactive material and special disposal. Where can I dispose of this?