It's Alarming!
FAC-U
Initiating Devices
Signals
Interfaced/Auxillary Connections
100
A fire alarm system that sounds provides notification of a fire alarm only to the occupants in the immediate area.
What is a local alarm system?
100
The are two acceptable sources of secondary power for a fire alarm system.
What are batteries and generators?
100
The device used by building occupants to initiate a fire alarm signal or a operate fixed fire protection system.
What is a manual pull station?
100
Most people will ignore this signal in public locations.
What is a fire alarm?
100
The most common interconnected fire protection system.
What is a fire sprinkler system?
200
A fire alarm system in which the alarm signal is transmitted to a receiving station that is owned an operated by the owner of the fire alarm system.
What is a proprietary alarm system?
200
Used to silence the alarm system.
What is the silence switch?
200
A device that initiates an alarm when it detects ultra-violet or infrared light that may not be visible to the naked eye.
What is a flame detector?
200
The type of signal most effective for sleeping children.
What is a voice alarm?
200
Another name for a supervisory signal.
What is a tamper signal?
300
The NFPA standard that regulates Fire Alarm Systems.
What is NFPA 72?
300
The device used to protect the location of the FACU.
What is a smoke detector?
300
The type of smoke detector that is ineffective at detecting cold smoke, such as the smoke that is produced during smoldering fires.
What is an ionization smoke detector?
300
The signal that indicates an electrical problem with the alarm system.
What is a trouble signal?
300
The device used to initiate smoke dampers.
What is a smoke detector?
400
Detectors used in residential applications that are not interconnected to any other devices or components.
What is a single-station detector?
400
A device used in large buildings that display the information found on the fire alarm control unit.
What is an annunciator?
400
This device is a type of heat detector designed to initiate when the area around it reaches a pre-determined temperature.
What is a fixed temperature heat detector?
400
The type of signal that may cause seizures in some building occupants.
What is a strobe light (or visual alarm device)?
400
The initiating device used to signal water flow in a fire sprinkler system.
What is a water flow switch?
500
NFPA 70
What is the National Electric Code?
500
These are arranged so first responders and technicians can determine the location of an activated initiating device. These may be designated by floor, area of a floor (ie: First Floor West) or by type of initiating devices (ie smoke detectors, manual pull stations, heat detectors).
What are zones?
500
The type of smoke detector that is the best choice for homeowners purchasing new detectors today.
What is a combination detector?
500
The signal that indicates an operating valve on a fire protection system has been turned off.
What is a supervisory signal?
500
A signal used to indicate the impending discharge of a fixed-extinguishing system.
What is a pre-action signal?
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