- Industria: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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An auxiliary system electrically connected to the public fire alarm reporting system extending a public fire alarm reporting circuit to interconnect initiating devices within a protected premises, which, when operated, opens the public fire alarm reporting circuit shunted around the trip coil of the master box or auxiliary box. The master box or auxiliary box is thereupon energized to start transmission without any assistance from a local source of power.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary system that employs a locally complete arrangement of parts, initiating devices, relays, power supply, and associated components to automatically activate a master box or auxiliary box over circuits that are electrically isolated from the public fire alarm reporting system circuits.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment item; a friction or mechanical device utilized with rope to control descent.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment system component; a self-closing, gated, load-bearing connector.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment system item; load-bearing connector with a self-closing gate used to join other components of life safety rope.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary or supplemental control with which the operator can manually operate select functions of the aerial device.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment system component; a friction or mechanical device utilized with escape rope to control descent.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment system component; a friction or mechanical device utilized to allow ascending a fixed line.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment device used to grasp a life safety rope for the purpose of supporting loads; includes ascending devices.
Industry:Fire safety
An auxiliary equipment system component; a device used to join other system components including but not limited to carabiners, rings, quick links, and snap-links.
Industry:Fire safety
