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Evilgoat:
Anyone know anything about them?

I need to quote for the installation of one to the relevent BS standards. I know as far as qualifications and competancy I'm good but I've not done a new style 2-wire system yet.

In particular need to know about cable requirements, is it still red MICC cable?

muddysteve:
usually done with firetuff or FP200 these days

much cheaper and easier to work with

ChrisW:
Will the local fire officer and building control officer accept you installing it (part P and all that) and who's going to put a certificate on it at the end of the day?

Mention pyro these days and most 'kids' on the tools go 'ugh?'  :lol:

What category system will it be? Any monitoring, redcare etc.?

http://www.bsi-global.com/Fire/Detection/index.xalter for a list of associated standards etc. BS5839-1:2002 is the main one. PM me with an email address if you need a copy  :wink:

muddysteve:
The joys of pyro

at least when you finnished a job it looked really good in pyro, not like the modern stuff

pyro and conduit were my speciality  :)

Evilgoat:
I need to chek out what it'll need yet, have to do a site survay and all. Its a listed building too so I'd rather not have bright red cabling everywhere, least I can make white conduit look less conspicous.

I have a sneaking supicion I might be in over my head with this one, its just something i've been out of for a while, the other aspects of the job are no problem and I'm certified to do them (Intruder, CCTV networking and mains) Just the fire alarm bothers me.

What I could do with is an hour or two of someone's time to talk it over tbh. Theres a serious line of thought that I might start doing this as a sideline and eventually fulltime.

Its all a pain. I could build you a compuer from scratch with compent parts, design you a PCB for it and even write you an OS. A fire alarm cant be THAT hard :)

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