kgingerich
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I'm building a new house and almost ready to drywall. Local codes require 120V smokes w/battery backup interconnected so that when one alarms they all alarm. Right now we're up to 17 smoke alarm locations and after reading the manual for the smokes it says I can only have a maximum of 12 smokes interconnected if they are non supervised. I called the manufacturer and they said it's US code and that's the way it is.
Apparently this is a NAFP code across the US. I called our local fire marshall and he said as long as all 17 smokes are 120V w/battery backup and go off when one goes off he doesn't care what the code says. This just doesn't seem right to me. I'd assume the codes are there for a reason but the fire marshall doesn't seem to care???
Do any of you have more than twelve 120V smokes wired together? I guess I'm just worried that they may not work reliably since it's not wired to code.
We're going to hook them all up this weekend prior to drywall to test them. If they dont' work i'd guess i'm not sure what i'm going to do.
If anyone has any experience in this area i'd appreciate some words of wisdom.
Kyle
Apparently this is a NAFP code across the US. I called our local fire marshall and he said as long as all 17 smokes are 120V w/battery backup and go off when one goes off he doesn't care what the code says. This just doesn't seem right to me. I'd assume the codes are there for a reason but the fire marshall doesn't seem to care???
Do any of you have more than twelve 120V smokes wired together? I guess I'm just worried that they may not work reliably since it's not wired to code.
We're going to hook them all up this weekend prior to drywall to test them. If they dont' work i'd guess i'm not sure what i'm going to do.
If anyone has any experience in this area i'd appreciate some words of wisdom.
Kyle