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REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS
NFPA 72 National Fire Alarm Code
Covers the application, inspection, testing, location, performance and maintenance of fire alarm systems. This code establishes the minimum level of performance but does not establish the only methods by which these requirements are to be achieved.
Annual fire alarm inspection
- Inspect control panel
- Verify monitoring connection
- Inspect annunciator
- Test:
- Pull stations
- Bells
- Audible/visual devices
- Door holders
- Elevator recall
- Smoke detector sensitivity every two years
- Duct Smoke detectors
- Heat / Thermal detectors
- Gate Valve & Riser Valve Tamper switches
- Flow switches
- Ground fault detection circuit
- System for grounded field wiring
- Load on standby batter(ies)
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