Yes Once again Honeywell has failed when it comes to a quality product and how the hell did these 5495 Horn Boosters ever get on the market .
This bad one was found during bi annual test .
Well needless to say I will never buy or put in or replace another SK Booster it will be Potter Electric boosters from here out.
because Honeywell will not address or fix the problem because as usual they just dont give a F#%k if you get hurt
It is a case of shear laziness and Verizon not giving a Fu>k about pubic safety .
Technicians are taking the original Fios fiber interface boxes which had a Back up battery and would hold phone lines up and ripping out the original parts and installing a new interface has no battery back up
I recently had a case where a Dollar General fire Alarm went into trouble and would not communicate every time the store in Ross twp P on 3 degree road lost power which is frequent and this is the mess I found.
You now have to request battery back up and they give you this flimsy enclosure holds 12 D batteries or you can use a UPS
Isn't that nice of Verizon putting peoples lives on the line and this is not the first one I have found.
Addressable systems are fantastic when it comes to there flexibility especially in large buildings and multiple properties .they let you know exactly know which device is in alarm or trouble.
Because with old conventional systems in some cases you could have as many as 20 or more devices on a run and trying to find the bad one can be a real pain finding it.
But as Analog Addressable systems are now going into their 2nd and 3rd generation of design
The legacy systems in the field are becoming a Night Mare for Building owners .
Because of mergers and changes in protocols how panels communicate in the industry many parts are now no longer available.
Take the case of Silent Knight and Fire Lite
Silent Knight offered 2 protocols SK and Hochiki Silent Knight now has dropped the Hochiki Protocol
and Fire lite has dropped Clip Protocol for Hyper Speed.
So now you as a building owner who has a 25 year old system who needs parts can not get them.
So you have choices. Try and find old stock expensive or replace the whole system.
Which is thousands of dollars. But what many are doing is eliminating devices and bypassing them and going without protection in certain areas.
Not a good situation at all. But they are doing it.
So you say well the building owner should have been told and prepared for the systems to be upgraded
But when you put the wrong protocol in even 5 years ago spent $20K for a new system and now its going to cost you another $20K or more how do you call that fair.
So because no one has been keeping their eyes on the situation we now have unsafe buildings because of it.
As a Fire Investigator new tools and procedures are always welcomed to help prevent and catch those who will do harm to others.
However AI Artificial Intelligence opens up a new world of totally unbelievable possibilities one can not even imagine. So lets look at some of the Good and Bad aspects of it .
For the Investigator AI could help solve previously unsolvable Arson and even Accidental Fires and how they started. AI could be put to task in solving old cold cases as it finds clues missed by investigators .
Imagine you go to a scene do a full 360 video of scene put it into your AI assistant and it spits out all the possible scenarios as to what happened and when saving painstaking hours of research. Identifies the source of accelerate and spits out possible suspects and where the accelerate was recently purchased
But of course there is always a give and take its the law of nature.
So what could AI for the Criminal Arsonist
It could teach them better ways to set fires and not get caught . How to better fool investigators and cover their tracks.
It could develop even more highly flammable substances which do extreme damage before firefighters even arrive on scene
So yes there are all kind of possibilities and who is keeping there eyes on it to prevent it from getting out of Hand ?
It is absolutely the worst case of incompetency I have seen when over 100 people are now dead after the Guadalupe River in Texas took them downstream during extreme weather conditions.
They know this is an area with tragic level floods frequently yet no warning sirens and a delayed Red Alert by the 911 center and a Austin Fire Chef denying aide. who has been asked to resign over his DEI hiring
But much of the deaths could have been avoided had simple $30.00 Weather Alert Radios been mandated at those campsites to warn campers
Why where they not mandated as part of the Texas Approved Emergency plans ?
Simple effective and very cost efficient . Placed where people are sleeping or who are on duty
the tones come on and messages are delivered. you can even listen to local weather forecasts .
Of Course if there not maintained with battery's when needed or warnings are ignored. tragedy will still happen but a lot more people would have survived.
I have had a weather radio in my home since 1981 when a tornado came into Pittsburgh area
I keep my eyes and ears on weather all the time due to Radio towers I maintain and other critical property's and weather radios alert me when bad storms are coming thru area so i can take precautions necessary.
Maybe now officials will get a clue i doubt it we have talked about tornado sirens in Pittsburgh area for over 30 years and its still nothing but talk.
