Jay, I suggest you call Ames. Have seen this issue where this backflow was installed several times back around the year 2000. We called them and they sent us replacement checks for the assembly and it fixed the problem.
W B Gooding, III Fire Sprinkler Division Manager Dorvin D. Leis Co, Inc c - 808-870-3294 f - 808-792-0429 o - 808-792-0416 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jay Stough Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Flow switch problem >From a drain valve w/ broken sprinkler. Jay Stough ________________________________ From: Justin Reid <[email protected]> To: Jay Stough <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:06 AM Subject: Re: Flow switch problem Is the flowing water coming from a pressure relief valve? Or from the drain valve? Justin Reid Sent from my iPhone On Feb 20, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Jay Stough <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll try to answer all the ideas in one email. The system does have an Ames > 2000SS backflow, but the water flow from the inspector's test is continuous, > so I don't think the backflow is preventing the water from flowing. We > observed the lever and it is going up and down, not staying down. The switch > is new out of the box, doing the same as the old. We set the delay at the > middle setting. If it is set too low, they get false alarms. If they set it > up all the way, it does not give a signal for 2 minutes. I will have the > guys check for air in the system since we are doing work there and taking the > system up and down every day. It's an old scheduled system from the mid > 70's. We've had systems with air in it, but have never had this type of > problem with a flow switch that replacing the globe valve didn't fix. > > > > Jay Stough -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20130220/346d765d/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
