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This seems to have becomed the official Funny Pics Thread 6...00000000. :lol: Just too funny!
 
Simplex 4100U
and, yes, i did pay over $5K to put my fire alarm system in my room. plastic conduit and gang boxes, plus wiring are NOT cheap. the conduit was like $24 per foot, and the boxes were $10 each(out of the 15 that were purchased, only 5 were used). the wire was $37 per yard, and there was 300 ft of wire. not to mention all of the components were well over $1000 total.
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Wow, where did you buy your supplies, NASA? That's ridiculous pricing.
 
Duke
Wow, where did you buy your supplies, NASA? That's ridiculous pricing.
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You were raised by government contractors?
I suppose you also have a $900 toilet seat in your bathroom?:lol:
 
Mark T
I don't know if your fire alarm rant was directed at me and I'm not really fussed either way. Although I will say that $5,000 seems like a lot of money for a fire alarm system for a room. I'm also interested in what features your smoke alarm has to my £35 mains powered alarm.
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Don't you know? It has a dozen different alarm tones and patterns so don't have to see the fire to know exactly how your room is burning. Oh, and the alarm won't ever get old and boring each time your room burns down.
 
Being I work in the field, I did some price checking. Four inch PVC runs around $2/foot, 4" EMT - $5/foot and 4" GRC - $8/foot. Keep in mind the fact that we are talking about fire alarm devices which can't even handle a 4" conduit being run to it, short of the FACP and even then I doubt it. So, the largest conduit that should be run to a device is 1" which clocks in at $.70/foot. Just for the sake of argument discussion, lets say that you used 12/3 MC cable. That runs $.70/foot, too. As for the wire itself, even assuming worse case, that will set you back to the tune of $.65/foot.

The only way you could have conduit cost $27/foot is if you used the 4" GRC and had ($27 - $8 = $19/.65 = 29.23) 30 runs of 12/2.

Except that 30 runs wont fit. Never mind the fact that devices are daisy chained so your runs back to the FACP would be fairly minimal, especially in your room. Hell, even the riser diagram I worked on for a nursing home with somewhere in the vicinity of 280 rooms only had 32 runs for the entire building (make sure you look at the linked image).
 
buickgnx88
Is it because they're mixed? :odd:
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I was going to say its because he's married.

TB
Being I work in the field, I did some price checking. Four inch PVC runs around $2/foot, 4" EMT - $5/foot and 4" GRC - $8/foot. Keep in mind the fact that we are talking about fire alarm devices which can't even handle a 4" conduit being run to it, short of the FACP and even then I doubt it. So, the largest conduit that should be run to a device is 1" which clocks in at $.70/foot. Just for the sake of argument discussion, lets say that you used 12/3 MC cable. That runs $.70/foot, too. As for the wire itself, even assuming worse case, that will set you back to the tune of $.65/foot.

The only way you could have conduit cost $27/foot is if you used the 4" GRC and had ($27 - $8 = $19/.65 = 29.23) 30 runs of 12/2.

Except that 30 runs wont fit. Never mind the fact that devices are daisy chained so your runs back to the FACP would be fairly minimal, especially in your room. Hell, even the riser diagram I worked on for a nursing home with somewhere in the vicinity of 280 rooms only had 32 runs for the entire building (make sure you look at the linked image).
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Careful, your facts may get in the way of his logic.
 
Damn it, I read every post in this thread. I'll never get that time back.
 
This should be locked to prevent further people from losing their time, don't you agree? :lol:
 
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