1. HV 110-125Volt 25 Ampere grounded dedicated line from your breaker panel to be supplied by client's electricians. (Code)
2. LV line/s must be inter-connected to bldg alarm panel/alarm system to be supplied by Client's alarm technicians. (Code)

A Kitchen fire suppression System requires:

1. HV 110-125 25 Ampere supply to be supplied by client's electricians, on a dedicated grounded circuit to be run to the junction box adjacent to the Ansul Cabinet that contains the Automan. Electricians are not permitted inside the Ansul Cabinet.
2. LV line/s back to the building alarm panel to be supplied by Client's alarm technicians, from the micro-switch inside the Ansul Cabinet.
3. Advisory: The Kitchen Hood/s must have thermal sensors, connected to a Control Box which in turn signals the exhaust/make-up fan equipment. Your hood supplier in cooperation with your electrician should do this. (Caveat: the thermal sensors must override the manual on-off switches. Manual on-off switches must NOT override the thermal sensors. Code)
4. Plumbers install the Natural Gas valve in the gas line. When it actuates, it must shut off the gas to ALL cooking appliances. (The FSSI installation technician will connect the actuator to the Ansul Cabinet)
5. All cooking appliances must be permanently fixed in place under the hood system before we can begin installation of the suppression system.
6. Maintenance: Hoods & Ducts must be steam cleaned at least every six months, more often if heavy usage of kitchen cooking equipment.

A Sprinkler Fire Suppression System requires:

1. Alarm wiring from the Back-Flow Preventer, Isolation valves, tamper switches and flow switches (in your Riser room) back to the building alarm panel by the Client's alarm technicians (Code)
2. On the Risers are flow switches, tamper devices (and an FDC) on each floor. (In the stairwells on every level. They require LV wiring by your alarm technicians back to the building alarm panel) For Zone Control.(Code)
3. Maintenance: Inspection, Draining, Operation Testing, every six months. Bacteria test every five years. (Code)

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The PBX, Data Area and an Electrical Fire Suppression System

Suppressing an Electrical Fire

The DuPont FM200 System is a Clean Agent Suppression System, designed to replace Halon.
Common in ships engine rooms
It leaves no oily or particulate residue, no water damage.
It reduces the oxygen level down to 15% in the room.
The room must be evacuated immediately.
The use of an Inergen System vs. an FM200 is a matter of personal preference and Cost Analysis.
All Clean Agent Systems must have their tanks in a different room from the room the chemical is required to protect Code).

1. The FM 200 System needs a dedicated 110-120v 20 Ampere mains line.
2. The FM 200 System must be interconnected with the building alarm system.
3. Need to run an Alarm line to the FM 200
4. So that if it trips, you can see it at the alarm panel
5. And so that if it trips, the building alarm system is tripped.
6. The above are Code required, and your Advisory Engineer/s should have known that and made provision. (I believe it is/was FEA Consulting; they are, after all, NFPA members)
7. The FM 200 system shows a line, inside the PBX room 20 amp, feeding the Amerex Panel inside the PBX room. (1014) and the tanks inside the next room (1015)
8. FSSI bid states that HV is to be done by others.
9. Fire Suppressing Technicians are not qualified to do HV (Electricians) or LV (Alarm Techs) work
10. The Company, FSSI does have Electrician & Alarm technicians.

The Cooking area and a Cooking oil Fire Suppression System.

Suppressing a Kitchen Cooking Area Fire

1. State Code requires an interconnect between all the cooking appliances and the exhaust system. (exhaust and make-up air fan System is AKA the Exhaust System)
2. A Kitchen Hood must (by Code) have somewhere in it, thermal sensors. (Your Supplier of the Kitchen Hood, in your case CaptiveAire, may have offered them as an option to you with the hood and they also may have offered to supply the control boxes for these to interconnect to the exhaust-makeup air system if it is in their contract with you.) None of this is part of an Ansul System. (& definitely not part any FSSI current scope)
3. If your kitchen hood supplier did not do so, we FSSI) can supply ONLY the thermal sensors for your kitchen hood, as part of our present Bid-Contract; NOT the control boxes that do the interconnection from the thermal sensors to the electrical system that controls the fan system. And therefore your electricians will have to supply any installation and interconnect/controls to the fan controls from the thermal sensors (they will be hating life if they have to. 'tis better if your hood supplier does so.). These are part of the Mechanical Code and have NO PART or anything to do with, the Ansul (our) system)
4. The thermal sensors are mentioned in the International Fire Code but not as a component or function of the Ansul System.
5. We can do this but it will be an additional cost to you. We didn't bid it because the job has the electrical and alarm contract 'Done by Others'.

Consider the act of Suppressing a Kitchen Cooking Area Fire as being divided into FOUR main areas:

They are:

1. Thermal Sensors, Control Boxes and Fan System (Code)
2. The Ansul Hood Suppression System (Code)
3. The Natural-Gas Shut-off valve (Code)
4. Regular six monthly filter and exhaust-duct steam cleaning (Code)

1. The Thermal Sensors detect the following:
   1. If someone turns on ANY cooking appliance under the hood and forgets to turn on the exhaust fans, the thermal sensors must turn on the exhaust fans automatically. (Caveat: the thermal sensors must override the manual on-off switches. Manual on-off switches must not override the thermal sensors. Code)
      1. That wiring is to be done by others, that means your electrical folk, not suppression system technicians.
      2. We can do this but it will be an additional cost to you. We didn't bid it because the job has the electrical and alarm contract 'Done by Others'.
2. The Ansul Hood Suppression System consists of:
   1. A Cabinet Enclosure
   2. An Automan Regulated Release Assembly
   3. A Junction Box
   4. Wet Chemical Storage Tank/s
   5. Nozzles & Blow-off caps
   6. Detectors
   7. Cartridges (CO2 or N)
   8. Chemical Agent
   9. Fusible Links
   10. Pulley elbows
   11. Remote Manual Pull-Station with conduit(sched.40 plated black-iron) and stainless wire
   12. Mechanical or Electrical and gas-valves pressures switches, and or electrical switches for automatic equipment and gas-line shutoff.
3. The Ansul Cabinet has:
   1. An extinguisher-like tank that holds blanketing wet-chemical (potassium carbonate & potassium acetate)
   2. Control valve/s for the tank (it is called an Ansul Automan regulated release assembly) and connected to piping to run under a kitchen hood
   3. The Cartridge (an expellant gas pressurized cylinder)
   4. Pull-station mechanical wire (stainless)
   5. A Mechanical trip device
   6. The Ansul cabinet also contains micro switches (three of 'em)
4. Each micro switch has three terminals:
   1. A Common pole
   2. An Open pole &
   3. A Closed pole
      1. One of the micro-switches has terminals upon which is connected (by the alarm folks) with Low Voltage wiring back to the building alarm panel. It is the ONLY micro-switch inside this cabinet that has screw terminals.
      2. The ONLY wiring connections made inside the Ansul cabinet that contains the Automan extinguisher tank is the alarm wire.
      3. The ONLY personnel permitted inside the Ansul cabinet are fire suppression and alarm technicians.
      4. The two other micro switches have pigtail connectors, the other ends of which will be found in a junction box outside and near to, the Automan.
         1. Inside this external junction box, an electrician connects his under 25 Ampere HV wires. An Electrician must NOT use the Automan as a junction box. (it invalidates the Warranty)
         2. Electrician must stay out of the cabinet that houses the Automan. (They usually fry the circuitry-invalidates the Warranty)
         3. The ONLY wiring connections made inside the Automan is the Low Voltage Alarm wire (alarm technician) and the junction-box pigtails. (Suppression technician)
         4. The electrician wires from the external junction box are to be used for HV for all other electrical shutoffs. e.g.:
            1. To turn off Dedicated Make-Up air fans (if you have them)
            2. To turn off ALL electricity under the hood, (including but not limited to the appliances. toasters, clocks ...)

The Natural-Gas Valve:

1. Fire Suppression Services Incorporated most often bids and supplies the Natural Gas valve that controls the supply of all natural gas fuel to the Cooking Equipment under the Kitchen Hood. (To Ensure Code Compliance)
2. Fire Suppression Technicians DO NOT install it in the gas line. (Code)
3. We give it to the plumbers when they are ready for it.
4. Plumbers do the natural-gas shutoff valve installation.
5. Fire Suppression Technician will then run stainless wire from the pneumatic actuator in this valve, through conduit and pulleys, back to the Automan in the Ansul cabinet. When the Automan activates, it mechanically closes the natural-gas supply valve.

The Sprinkler Fire Suppression System.

The Riser room, the stairwell Riser Mains Control assemblies, and anywhere there are Tamper devices, Flow Detector switches/valves will require LV wiring back to the alarm panel by the Client's alarm technicians.
On each & every floor, in each & every stairwell the riser mains pass upward, and will have an FDC and a Control Assembly with flow and tamper devices. They need wiring back to discreet sections on the building alarm panel.
IF you have an anti-freeze loop (to protect outside overhang areas) they will also require LV wiring back to the building alarm panel by the Client's alarm technicians.