sprinkler test

[paul9511]

Are there drains on the floor, to prevent a flood (because you are testing the sprinklers) ?

Thanks

[martylaurie]

Testing ????

Like a 200 PSI hydro, buddy your pipes are leaking.

must be a steamfitter or plummer, he's smileing becase he knows he gets to fix it for 3 months !!!!

local 699 columbiafire

[driedel11]

@martylaurie ,

The pipe's aren't leaking, it's a deluge system. That means the systems is fitted with open sprinklers and a separated air system to activate. And the sprinkler fitter was smiling becuase it worked just like it was seposed to.

[inkibert]

Reminds me of Bankside Power Station back in the 80s C.E.G.B.were tripping/activating the Mather & Platt Mulsifier mf valves to lower the temperature in the transformer bays,this was due one of the transformers exploding one summers night,the locals & Police thought a bomb had gone off.

[driedel11]

@paul9511 ,

yes, there is a drain valve for future testing, but this was a functionality test.

[rp638]

638 Steamfitters baby!

[domotoast1]

WEEEE its raining in a building

[driedel11]

sometimes the client request a life-test of the installation. Thats always the best job, because you will see the sprinkler do it's job for the first, and hopefully, for the last time.

Thanx for your reaction.

[eureka800]

@driedel11 that is really awesome

[driedel11]

this is just a live test, according to the demands of the customer.we had to perform a live test, so we did, and all the electric equipment is water restistand.

[1sprinkler]

Testing my ass!!!Somebody or something phucked-up..uh-huh.

[NipkowDisk]

Are they testing a deluge system? Even so, it seems like an unnecessary flooding of a business unless they manufacture something like cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine.­..!

[overmind2]

deluge systems are bassicaly only used in industrial factories, such as steel mills because, one a fire starts, there is no stopping it.

[jvanderpool2007]

They're not testing to put the fire out, they're testing to see how many gallons/minute the head flows. There is a continuous flame produced by flammable gas that sets the sprinkler off. After that, they just moniter water output.

[pdbravo]

That's not actually how they test that. This is done via the flow meter and is done at the commissioning stage and involves the opening of a valve and meter readings taken. They DO NOT EVER set sprinklers off for testing.

[StopDropandLOL]

I agree, probably some idiot activated them. I believe deluge systems have manual pull stations as well.

[mitchell42]

@pdbravo no dude this is a deluge system its an open head sprinkler and you can do a full test like this

[Bradlysneezer]

@pdbravo the building may be built to take that amount of water without being harmed, and if it's a deluge system they can do a mass test.

[driedel11]

@Bradlysneezer ,

you understand how sprinklersystems work,lol

[1eyekc]

what are they testing? how well water destroys electrical equipment

[jvanderpool2007]

One of these days you're going to be in a building that catches fire and thank God for the sprinkler system. Don't mess with fire.

[1eyekc]

I may just be in a building I sprinkled. Dont mess with sprinkler fitters! They could save your life some day.

[EatOoze]

Auuuuuuugh! I'm melting! I'm melting!

[NewAgeServer]

It looks like rain!

[tornadofreak1994]

ya. it does.