The amount of water that you will get out of a three-quarter inch water line 
will be useless in trying to fight an electric vehicle fire.

Christopher Dorn
Dorn Fire Protection LLC
4132 Dumont Street #4
Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
(513) 295-2499

On Jul 5, 2023, at 1:31 PM, Brett Peters <[email protected]> wrote:


I would ask the AHJ what it is that they are expecting the sprinklers to 
protect, if they they are looking for protection of the Lithium batteries than 
that's not going to be possible and I would recommend putting that in bold 
lettering of all correspondence that residential sprinkler designs are not 
capable of providing protection for Lithium fires.




Thanks

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On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 11:11 AM Sean Lockyer 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have an interesting situation here: A homeowner has an electric car and an 
electric car charger in her garage. However, the house is not sprinkled and she 
is asking to just sprinkle the garage only. The AHJ has even pre-approved just 
protecting the garage only and not the entire residence. No problem, right ? 
Well, I don't know, TBH. There is a 3/4" water line that COULD feed these 4 or 
5 heads, but under what code reference would you apply here ? Since this would 
have been a 13D system to begin with, could you have just put in a few 
concealed residential heads and connected to the 3/4" water line ? All the AHJ 
has asked for is to draw it up, permit it, and provide a bell for notification 
in case of a fire. Other than that, details are sketchy until they can review 
it. Some AHJ's would go way over-the-top and ask for a separate line, extra 
hazard protection, etc.... and another one I could see wanting a special hazard 
system.

What does everyone else here think about this ? Everyone at the office believes 
I am over-thinking it but I believe that over-thinking something is better than 
not putting enough thought into something when the alternative could cause more 
problems down the road.

Thanks,
Sean
AIT Life Safety

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