Damien, probably you'd be better off searching the UL and FM sites for the test data, the commentary in the handbook only states that tests were done, not by whom.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Damien Shannon <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear forum members, > > While attending Cecil's recent hydraulic calculation seminar (Awesome!), I > was reminded of the allowance for the remote area reduction for high > temperature sprinklers in extra hazard occupancies. > > I have a project with a specification for ordinary temperature sprinklers > for an extra hazard area. I plan on submitting an RFI to the project > engineer to see if the area could be reduced using high temperature > sprinklers. In order to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy about the > reduction I was hoping to get some background on how the reduction for high > temperature sprinklers came about. > > My theory is that the original area densities were derived from initial > testing with Ordinary temperature sprinklers and that some years latter > testing with high temperature sprinklers indicated that the effectiveness > of > the higher temperature sprinklers was superior. > > Can anyone confirm/dismiss this theory or provide any other insight on this > reduction? (year of testing/who performed testing, etc) > > As always thank you very much for your insight! And thank you Cecil for the > numerous nuggets of info in the seminar! > > Damien Shannon. > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email > to:[email protected]<to%[email protected]> > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Tom Poisal, CET _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
