I love it brother that fact you said a prayer it just speaks volumes!

Happy Holidays to you Jim ! Good Ole Silent Knight Panels

when we do annuals we usually have an alarm guy to disable everything and he does his inspection. if we’re doing a quarterly inspection we’ll be by ourselves so we just disable the panel ourselves, we do not want the customer to be upset.

Great video!! Keep them coming

Need more of these. Thank you for your video

Where’s the bell sign lol

Technically you can’t do a proper annual by yourself. You can’t be in multiple places @ once

I never liked the fact that the ITV is on the riser manifold. Although its accepted means of testing some jurisdictions still want them on end of the line for a proper flush. If the system is ever drained and recharged you will also have trapped air. During an inspection it may also be possible to disable the alarms and still have the panel annunciate properly. If there are multiple risers, each flow switch should have its own zone as well as each tamper switch. If they don't, that's usually known as the cheap bid. If there is an adequate jockey pump, some occasions you can perform n inspection with the pump off.  However if there is only an annual inspection the fire pump get flow capacity tested by actually flowing water out hoses and checking that it meets its design capacity under peak loads. Additionally the fire pump (electric) shall be churn tested  for 10 Min on a monthly basis, Diesel Pumps- Weekly- 30 min.
Sorry for rambling on but in this business you have to CYA because most building owners don't want to spend money on something they cant see.

Great job

After slowly/carefully recharging a drained system, why would the flow switch and mechanical bell continue to sound the alarm with a steady stream of water continuing to flow from that alarm drain line? Could the alarm valve flapper have failed to seat again?

Jim what do you do if the main drain valve is so old and corroded and it like like it will snap or leak?

How do you a pump run

Is it a way I can talk to you , thru email or phone to pick your brain about inspections

By pass the fire panel brotha! Walk test?

Shouldnt the pump be running for your static and residual flow from main drain? Also you can disable the horn strobes on the panel typically.

Hi Jim, do you always have to ring the panel during annual inspections?  I'm new so I need to learn this. An inspector is trying to initiate an annual inspection at our property but we have tenants and the date he scheduled is near Christmas 😬