FireLite's new 9050UD's a "Honey"!

OK, so you'll have to pardon the "play on words" but we recently verified this new 50 point gem from Honeywell in an installation in Vancouver. It's an ideal match for small jobs requiring less than twenty zones (and 50 addressable "points"). It is limited to two onboard notification appliance circuits, but you can easily expand on that. It even includes a onboard UDACT communicator. For retrofit jobs in which a single zone FACP is employed, it's a "slam-dunk". Replace the manual stations, in-suite heats, and hallway smokes with addressable units and for a small three storey walkup you now have proper zone annunciation - a step up from the single red alarm LED. Just make sure that you also look after the end-of-line resistor for the bell circuit and observe the limitations regarding placement of the remote annunciators (in Canada).

More Bogus Verifications!

The City of Vancouver recently rejected a fire alarm verification report submitted by one of the Lower Mainland's oldest fire safety companies (and which I had always rated pretty highly). The job in question involved an upgrade in a high-rise apartment downtown. On a casual walk-through I noticed that only four of the new smoke detectors the contractor provided were actually installed correctly and that addressable heat detectors had been employed in an unheated covered parkade. The report itself didn't even employ the Appendix "C" document which Vancouver requires (which is what initially gave the inspector cause to question it's legitimacy). There were other issues as well, which I won't go into right now, but watch for more here!

CITY HALL in the NEWS!

The recent firing of Vancouver's Chief Electrician, Arkady Tsisserev has really focussed the media spotlight on some pretty interesting "going's on" at City Hall. You can read all about it!

TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK

We've been continuing to update two recent articles to reflect the fact that CFAA still hasn't bothered to correct a question they answered from a BC based technician inquiring about certification criteria for fire alarm testing in Vancouver. You can read more about this here!

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