arion
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- Nov 22, 2010
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Hi,
In my site visits to commercial buildings, it's been a great challenge to find link temperatures on smoke and heat vents. I have tried the following strategies with no results:
1. Binoculars: Even 50x binoculars cannot clearly read the link temp on a smoke vent 25' high.
2. Climbing on the roof: Almost every time, even if a label happens to be on a smoke vent, it is faded out by the sun and illegible or covered with paint. Even if it is legible, it only has the company information and never a model number, which still is not the link temperature, because I believe products can have different link temperatures.
3. Try to see the underside with a pallet jack: This option is only reasonable to try if one is already available. However, even though this is the closest I've ever gotten to the link itself, it is just out of reach and I still cannot read the temperature. Usually, the pallet jack will have to stop too low because it's about to hit the bottom of a truss, and I end up not getting the link temperature.
The only thing I have not tried is going onto the roof and opening up a smoke vent, because there are so many models, and I believe they require special knowledge to open them to avoid breaking the link. If this is the way, is there a resource on how to safely open a variety of smoke vents?
I was wondering if there are any useful strategies anyone has found to getting this information?
Thanks!
Arion
In my site visits to commercial buildings, it's been a great challenge to find link temperatures on smoke and heat vents. I have tried the following strategies with no results:
1. Binoculars: Even 50x binoculars cannot clearly read the link temp on a smoke vent 25' high.
2. Climbing on the roof: Almost every time, even if a label happens to be on a smoke vent, it is faded out by the sun and illegible or covered with paint. Even if it is legible, it only has the company information and never a model number, which still is not the link temperature, because I believe products can have different link temperatures.
3. Try to see the underside with a pallet jack: This option is only reasonable to try if one is already available. However, even though this is the closest I've ever gotten to the link itself, it is just out of reach and I still cannot read the temperature. Usually, the pallet jack will have to stop too low because it's about to hit the bottom of a truss, and I end up not getting the link temperature.
The only thing I have not tried is going onto the roof and opening up a smoke vent, because there are so many models, and I believe they require special knowledge to open them to avoid breaking the link. If this is the way, is there a resource on how to safely open a variety of smoke vents?
I was wondering if there are any useful strategies anyone has found to getting this information?
Thanks!
Arion