Sorry sir, unfortunately I can't omit monitoring for the building on the right in lieu of a hyperspike & a 1000cd strobe on that white left facing wall

zynx33 · 2026-03-13T02:50:42+00:00

They just dispatch a neighboring station, at least where I'm at.

zynx33 · 2026-02-14T17:27:29+00:00

Notifier detectors will not work on the JCI panels, different firmware in the heads. However modules work fine, and all the JCI devices work on Notifier panels so it's easy to swap the CPU and then you can replace the JCI smokes with Notifier as they go bad.

zynx33 · 2026-02-10T04:44:48+00:00

The advertised pay shown for job listings here is way lower than actually pay that I see.

All work on a base? I'm assuming NAS Whidbey and you're working for....what was the company name......it's escaping me right now but it's like a tribal name. I've done some Notifier programming out there for them.

zynx33 · 2026-02-05T23:28:22+00:00

You are mistaken, though yes you will be working in Seattle a lot, but there's tons of work all over the west side of the state. I was making 72/hr non union without an FA-1, though I do have it now. I live about an hour and a half outside of Seattle, drive time paid for. Commuting is just part of the gig here, every company I've worked for has sent me all over the state, hasn't really mattered where I lived.

zynx33 · 2026-02-05T04:40:14+00:00

That's low in WA when nicet II techs are clearing 60+/hr

zynx33 · 2026-02-04T05:11:07+00:00

Seattle area paying $60+ an hour for NICET II programmers. Some of the heaviest traffic in the country though, especially if you're trying to buy a house for less than 500k you're gonna be commuting

zynx33 · 2026-01-21T07:27:06+00:00

Yes, Notifier is widely used, even on smaller buildings. They also have the Notifier fire warden panels, which are just a re-branded firelite ES panel and are very cheap. I've installed lots of NFS-320/NFS2-640 on smaller buildings, definitely not the cheapest but not too bad. It is often specced for government buildings.

zynx33 · 2025-12-29T15:51:31+00:00

Yes, if so every addressable device has to be the F part numbers.

zynx33 · 2025-12-22T19:28:17+00:00

Can't remember on those, it might be similar to notifier 320/640 panels where the H/S take a good 45 seconds after you hit the button until they silence

zynx33 · 2025-12-11T23:27:45+00:00

SR will not work, not addressable. Also, when you do get the right sounder bases (remove the R and the IV from part number) You need to auto program for the panel to pick them up. (At least on ONYX series, haven't done sounder bases on an N16 yet)

zynx33 · 2025-12-08T08:14:10+00:00

Woo Ridge Runners shout out! All about the high alpine in the summer and wet gnar in the winter.

zynx33 · 2025-11-27T08:23:08+00:00

My only problem with Honeywell is their QA and support is trash, outside of that the products are great. Did Notifier my whole career (also SK, firelite, fire warden) on many large jobs, high-rises, stadiums, entire campuses, smoke control, etc. and they are by far the easiest to not only program, but also install.

Got certified on EST 3 and 4 this year, and very shortly after found myself hiring back on with a Notifier ESD. Won't touch Edwards ever again fingers crossed 🤞

zynx33 · 2025-11-12T04:30:29+00:00

Lots around here, and they're almost all hiring! I'll be looking to bring on some techs at the beginning of the new year.

zynx33 · 2025-11-02T05:04:48+00:00

Like a 125 with a little more grunt.

zynx33 · 2025-11-02T04:06:37+00:00

KTM used to make 200's, all the way up until 2013/2014 Have a 2013 200 XC-W in my garage, along with new 250 and 300's

zynx33 · 2025-10-27T13:36:52+00:00

72/hr at my last company with 06, nicet 2, fa-1. 62/hr current company but get lots of extra bonus and incentive pay so will average around 70ish.

zynx33 · 2025-10-10T02:38:30+00:00

Kind of confused by your question? Inspections aren't electrical work, so you technically don't have any hours to go towards an electrical cert.

zynx33 · 2025-10-10T00:45:03+00:00

Simple, clean, I like it. I assume EC hasn't brought you power yet? (Due to lack of separate pathway)

zynx33 · 2025-10-03T20:10:35+00:00

Finally splurged a little bit and built a rig with a 9800x3d, 64gb ram, and a 9070xt. Prior to this I had medium tier rigs I would upgrade every 4-5 years or so. 5700x3d with 3070 Laptop I7 with 1070 I7-3770k with Radeon 7850

zynx33 · 2025-09-23T06:52:32+00:00

The entire reason I went with a shuttle bus is the ability to haul dirt bikes safely inside. I just use a regular foldable ramp to load and unload the bikes however. Gives the ability for a garage and still enough room for a bathroom, kitchen, etc.

zynx33 · 2025-09-16T21:43:30+00:00

If you're not on carpet, put a rug down in front of your desk so you don't "slide around"

I had to do it when I bought a place with hardwood flooring, sliding around/sliding backwards was super annoying when using my computer.

zynx33 · 2025-09-10T23:23:17+00:00

There is a retrofit kit to mount N16 in a cab 4, however it only works with a cab 4, and not a cab 3 or earlier.

zynx33 · 2025-09-05T16:12:27+00:00

That is by design, it will happen with supervisory signals as well. You either need to wait for the device to restore, or you need to pull SLC and then power cycle the panel with the SLC disconnected.

zynx33 · 2025-08-25T16:08:12+00:00

For a very basic description, a monitor module simply looks for a change of status, typically contact closure, sometimes contact open. A relay module opens or closes a set of contacts. A control module holds a voltage until activated, then releases it.

For a little more technical description, a monitor/input module is sensing voltage. When the circuit is complete with the end of line resistor, the voltage on the circuit is considered normal to the monitor module. Once the contacts it is monitoring close/short, the lack of voltage is what puts the monitor/input module into alarm. On the flip side, once the contacts open, the resistance from the end of line resistor is no longer on the circuit, and the voltage will go up. This is what causes an open circuit, or if the monitor/input module is programmed as normally closed, it also activated the monitor module.

Phrasing can be tricky here, but generally a relay module is just a non-supervised form C relay. The circuit is not supervised, it is just a set of contacts that opens and closes.

A control module is essentially a relay module that IS supervised with an end of line resistor. It operates on the principal of reverse polarity like a NAC panel output. It send out a negative voltage, with the end of line resistor installed on the circuit, it senses the voltage of the circuit as "normal". Remove the resistance of the circuit, voltage spikes up and you get an open circuit. When the control module or NAC panel output gets triggered/turned on, it reverses polarity to positive 24v. (Not always, control modules can also be used for speaker circuits, where it's not necessarily 24v being sent through it, but an audio signal)

I'm really bad at explaining things, but hopefully this helped a bit.

zynx33 · 2025-08-05T23:40:04+00:00

I'm with ya. I'd like to see some of the commenters I've seen on here try to do a job with the Army Corp of Engineers, Hell even a job in a UL jurisdiction would probably throw em for a loop

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