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Laptop

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:57:46 +0000

Hi all
Looking for a additional laptop to use on site, any recommendations? Was looking at the rugged ones online , theres some cheep ones eBay, anyone use these?

Class change & isolation off

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:05 +0000

Today shop fitters knobing about refitting an a city centre office block (gent addressable) have there system silenced but naturally the relay is operated until reset leaving the controls in the public house (menvier conv) screaming its nuts off

Before I slap c-tec type key switch on a plate in, what else should I consider?

For sale

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:06:45 +0000

Hi all
Just checking if can list things for sale on here? Have some spare solo gear poles etc, was going to put on eBay but maybe someone on here?

Planning a system without a risk assessment

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:21:30 +0000

Hi all,

I have come across a few places now which want a fire alarm but they have done their own risk assessment.

How to do you go about specifying a category based on their internal fire risk assessment?

I know what should be covered but shy away from mentioning a category due to the lack of professional risk assessment. I am talking about small businesses here such as a very small fish processing factory. I have advised full AFD in the couple of offices, the escape routes and the kitchen with just call points in the wet factory area which is void of anything other than metal tables and dead fish.

Cat L1 seems a little harsh and I tend to lean toward L3 in this case.

I have always worked from "professional" risk assessors specifications but dont know what to do in this case.

Hewlp!

Lift Shafts

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:21:19 +0000

Hi Guys just a quick question re BS5839 . Is it correct that if you have a smoke detector within 1.5 m of the lift doors on each floor then you do not require one at the top of the shaft
Many Thanks

caught on camera

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:28:24 +0000

who would'a guessed?

I'm sure it's trying to tell me something

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:11:42 +0000

panel change

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:28:49 +0000

hi any one can identify this type of panel?
iv got to replace it , any recomenations for a panel to fit?
got to be compatible with the existing devices, which im sure are old gent
please see pics

ok no pics how do i add them from my phone, connected to pc?

advanced graphics interface story

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:03:25 +0000

I'v not done any graphics interfaces before but was told to fit one on a barn conversion the other day and another firm would do all the rest. Basically just network it to the advanced panel, i was thinking it would just be set up on a pc or something but this firm called "coretech" had re-written the drivers to link this interface to a system called "datalog5" which was in a security hut 2.5 miles away from the barn conversion using fiber optics. This s**t blew my mind and didnt even know it existed. In the hut they had a wall of monitores and real time images of all the buildings on the grounds where they can take full control of all the security/fire systems. They can basically do anything to the panel remotely. Was some of the coolest sheeite i'v seen as an engineer.

Changing access codes

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:19:20 +0000

Hi guys
I've got a bit of a problem on one of my sites.
I do 4 visits a year to a block of flats with a ZXa with detectors and sounder bases in the flats. First time I went there, all zones, relays and sounders were disabled. After checking, no one could tell me why so I re enabled and left site. 3 months later I return to find sounders and relays disabled and a few zones. At first I panicked and thought I had left it like that from my last visit. Read through my notes in the log book from the last visit and remembered I had this problem before. So this time I've re enabled everything and changed the user code as it was just set to 1234 and written on the panel.
So 3 months on again and guess what? It's all disabled again. Whilst working on the system a rather unhappy resident decided to come and have a pop at me. When I asked her if she had anything to do with the random disablements, straight away she flat out denied it.
I'm pretty convinced its a resident disabling it all as I know they have a high number of false alarms there (install guys put smoke detectors In kitchens and the landlords refuse to pay to change them to heats). Is there anyway to change the engineers code? I know you can't with the ZXe but this is the only ZXa I've got so don't know In depth what you can do with them.

Sorry for the long winded explanation and many thanks!

Protec AN95 and 6400 Network

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:18:03 +0000

Hello,

Anyone here with any knowledge or experience with Protec 6400 networked with old AN95 panels?

There is a site I look at with this configuration and having a problem....

Thx.

Hello

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:07:41 +0000

Hi all

Kinda wish I'd made this my first post now,lol

I'm a time served sparks, 15 years in all areas of the industry , my company is pushing more and more fire alarms , servicing extinguishers etc, so I joined on here to improve my knowledge and do things right
Experience wise iv done a lot of installs and just trained on the fia can course

I will have dumb questions I guess, from what I see like loads of new members do on here, please don't be too hard I'm just trying to improve my knowledge and skills on fire side of the industry

Leon

A hello

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:32 +0000

ziton clymac

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:51:31 +0000

hi all anyone advise on this please
got a call out to a clymac panel, long story short needs new multi sensor (vandalism) but as i was at the panel i noticed that a whole zone (30 points) had been disabled. questioned the manager who had no knowledge of this, so i decided to re-enable the zone, misrtake. the problem is that zone 3 keeps going to fire but the display on the panel doesn't give me a device it just reads zone 3.
Confused? any help or advice would be greatly appreciated this is the first clymac i've come across, not been in the trade long (18 months) thanks guys

Gent 3260

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:59:50 +0000

I am trying to locate an EOL unit for a Gent 3260 panel with no success.

It is for a spare zone on the panel, so I was wondering if a resistor could be fitted in it's place.

Any help you be greatfull.

Need to identify a panel

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:00:41 +0000

Morning all, I hope everybody had a good weekend.

Does anybody know anything about this panel and if so if there is a manual on here?

Cheers.

Trying again, darn Google plus not playing the game.

charging

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:26:18 +0000

hi all

having just completed my training
i to owas frustrated the fia course didnt show any refilling, even of water extinguishers

what does everyone use to charge the cans, iv just opened a boc gas account and am going for a nitrogen bottle with regualtor, but intersted anyone who has used BA in a diving bottle?

access code

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:24:08 +0000

hi all

has anyone a list of all the level 1 access codes ?
im filing a list of all the main ones, just looking to add to it , maybe a full list can be shared,

not all of them are 2114!lol

fused spur

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:22:24 +0000

hi on testing/servicing a system, is a fused spur suppling an existing panel, classed as a fail?
if so when did it come in and sometimes hard to say when system was installed
90% of systems we test have a unswitched fused spur,

many thanks

This week i have mostly been listening to....

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:09:33 +0000

Guns n Roses appitite for destruction.

always sounds better the louder you can get it lol