On June 15, 2011 we received an email from Michael Perrin a representative for a condominium in Surrey, B.C. Canada regarding the mounting of an air compressor to the fire protection systems’ riser. Michael asks: “We had an air compressor installed by our local fire protection contractor. The compressor was attached to the riser by… Read more …
On July 7th, 2011 we received an email from John Roddick of Bruce Carscadden Architects in Vancouver regarding the installation location of one of our OL Series compressors for a dry pipe system John in working on. He asks: “We have specified an OL Series Oil Less Air Compressor and were planning to locate it… Read more …
Residential NFPA 13D Sprinkler System Pump Live Burn Test A few weeks ago Mike Faustina from the Centre Region Code Administration in Pennsylvania stopped by to give us a live burn demonstration of a residential fire sprinkler system using the NFPA 13D Econo RFP System that we donated to them. The traveling demonstration system, used… Read more …
We received an email from Tim Toth of Able Engineering in Oregon regarding the amount of oil that should be added to one of our LT Series, tank mounted lubricated compressors. Tim asks: “I am trying to locate the oil capacity information for the LT620100B compressor, can you supply that information?” Before we get into… Read more …
On May 17, 2011 we received an email from Bruce Hall of Advanced Fire Protection in North Dakota. Bruce was looking for clarification on the requirement of an air maintenance device. Bruce asks: “Do your riser mount air compressors need to be installed with an air maintenance device to meet NFPA codes?” Ray DeCecco, our… Read more …
On May 10, 2011 we received an email from R. John Phillips of Kootenay Sprinkler Installations Inc. in British Columbia, Canada. John had recently completed work installing one of our OL Series oilless riser mounted compressors in an office building. A call from the general contractor prompted John to ask us: “Under normal operating conditions… Read more …
Introducing the RFP Econo – NFPA 13D Residential Fire Protection Pumping System – Highest Quality at the Lowest Price General Air Products has expanded its residential product line! Along with our Basic and Complete residential pump systems we now offer the Econo RFP System for NFPA 13D applications (click here for a complete features list).… Read more …
High quality, dependable air compressors supplied by General Air Products rarely have any installation start-up issues that are caused by the compressor itself; however, there is an occasional installation issue that results in a troubleshooting phone call. The #1 issue that accounts for 90% of our troubleshooting calls is actually one that we are unable… Read more …
There is another sizing misconception that we would like to shed light on today regarding NFPA 13D pumps. Many times, when designing and building a development or series of houses in the same area, a pump calculation from the first house will be used to size the pumps for all of the houses – the… Read more …
Don’t Get Stuck on Horsepower When Sizing a 13D Pump System! A typical call to our customer service staff regarding our 13D pumping systems starts like this, “I’m working on a 3,000 square foot house, what horsepower pump do I need for the sprinkler system?” This question assumes that square footage and horsepower are the… Read more …