NFPA 72 Basics
Chapter of NFPA 72 that covers inspection, testing, and maintenance.
What is Chapter 14?
Example of an alarm initiating device.
What is a manual fire alarm box?
Heat detectors on walls must be mounted between __ and __ inches from the ceiling.
What is 4" and 12"?
Removing an addressable smoke detector from an SLC causes this signal.
What is trouble?
Dwelling unit smoke detectors cannot be installed here.
What is in attics?
Minimum temperature fire alarm equipment must be installed above.
What is 32°F?
Example of a supervisory initiating device
What is a water level switch?
Valve Tamper and Air Pressure Switches also
Class A vertical runs must be separated by at least __.
What is 1 foot?
List the priority order: Life safety, Property protection, Trouble with property protection, All other.
What is 1–4 in that order?
Fire alarm systems are sometimes integrated with which four other systems? name one
What are burglary, BAS, access control, mass notification?
Trouble signals must be indicated within how many seconds of a system fault?
What is 200 seconds?
Tactile notification appliances alert by which sense?
What is touch?
Outgoing and return conductors of a Class A circuit can share a raceway if distance does not exceed __.
What is 10 feet?
Remote supervising stations must transmit __ signals.
What are supervisory and alarm?
Which code does NOT require installation of fire alarm systems?
What is UL 268?
Chapter of NFPA 72 that provides requirements for documentation.
What is Chapter 7?
Evacuation signals must produce the Temporal __ signal.
What is Temporal 3?
Smoke detectors on smooth ceilings can be spaced __ apart.
What is 30 feet?
Public fire reporting systems transmit which type of signal?
What is alarm?
Fire suppression systems most commonly used
What are wet-pipe systems?
Requirements for ECS are found in NFPA 72 Chapter __.
What is Chapter 24?
Low-frequency alarm signal required for sleeping areas.
What is 520 Hz?
Rechargeable power supplies for smoke alarms must recharge in __ or less.
What is 4 hours?
An open circuit on a Class B SLC results in what?
What is loss of devices downstream of the open?
Requirements for CO detectors were once in which NFPA?
What is NFPA 720