How To Use Fog Machine Without Setting Off Fire Alarm

• #3

The start fourth dimension I tested a fog machine in my infinite we invited the burn down marshal to supervise. He told his men to ignore any alarms in the adjacent x minutes and nosotros tested to see if we would set off the alert. There might non be plenty time for you to exercise the same though.

As Josh said, do not disable the smoke detector in any way. This can terminate very badly for yous and anyone else involved.

• #8

Working with regime, if its a modernistic warning system with a central panel, you lot can silence that i detector or room, and suit a fire watch. Some jurisdictions volition require you rent fire service, others are quite fine with knowing who it is and deciding the person is rsponsible and understands the problems. Information technology varies.

Nosotros make certain detectors where we accept a choice are heat detectors, which don't detect theatrical atmospheric effects, only return air ducts to a higher place a certain size are required to have fume detectors, so remain the problem.

Practiced luck.

• #12

So a church I do lighting for sometimes has the aforementioned trouble. I googled the local fire dept and plant an email for the fire align and asked him about a fire watch simply he never responded. Does anyone have a baseline cost for i? And a contact? Although I'm thinking for a contact that would only be good if you lot lived well-nigh said church.

Tin can a responsible developed at the church building be trained as a fire watch?

• #xiv

That's what I figured. Thank you for the quick response!

• #17

I am DJing a dance tomorrow. The room I will be using is mane 200 or then Square Feet and I have a fat beam laser that needs fog. The problem is that the room has smoke detectors and fire alarms that are continued to the fire department and my crap thou watt fog machine is known to set up off fire alarms and it just so happens that the smoke detector (the one with the strobe on it that is attached to the burn Handel) is just eight feet or so from where I'k setting up so that would increase my chances of setting them off even more! Normally I would merely rent a hazer but I am doing this for free for my church building so i take very footling to no money to spend and no time to rent. I want to be able to use fog unless it'south not at all possible to practice.

My question is if anyone knows a good method of making my fog work like brume or a way to maybe cover the smoke detector that won't fix it off that I can do just before and but after the dance. I am willing to build something as long as it doesn't exceed effectually 20-thirty dollars to do.

Please get dorsum to me ASAP!

P.m.
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First off, fog machines ordinarily run dry ice and almost never trip alarms. If you hateful smoke or haze they can hands trip alarms depending on edifice design. Ours will, depending on the weather, blow it exterior during the air recirculation wheel, migrate over and fatigued into a different section of the buildings hvac fresh air intake.
I have triped them in 30 sec or 3 hours. Our solution is to only run dry ice fog, or with permission of building management and the local AHJ and fire department to continue burn down lookout man. This involves united states of america, taking the warning off line, training a responsible adult to constant monitor the fire control console. If a sensor trips they radio maintenance who will check the zone for more than than haze. If it is a pull station trip, then the person monitoring volition dial 911, then have maintenance turn on building audible alarms to clear edifice. The asumption is merely people who see a burn down will use the pull station. The alarms company is notif ied to reset once our event is over.
Proper announcements are given prior to the show re: employ of fume, haze and lights. exit location in the event of emergency. Nosotros also have trained staff around room during evevt.

P Due south : Don't simply email the burn marshal, pick upward a phone telephone call the not emg number. They will connect you to them.

Every bit for cheap hazer, take 3 gl pail, run three ft length of 1/4" copper tube conected to air conpressor. Make i turn around lesser of pail and drill four one/16th holes on lesser of copper tube. pour ii bottles of mineral or baby oil in pail. Insert a 2" pvc tee into hat with single exit hole out pinnacle. x psi will fill 500 seat auditorium in. 20 min

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