A heat detector is a fire alarm device designed to respond when the convected thermal energy of a fire increases the temperature of a heat sensitive element...
6 KB (851 words) - 01:38, 6 July 2024
operator or control system. A flame detector can often respond faster and more accurately than a smoke or heat detector due to the mechanisms it uses to...
24 KB (3,504 words) - 02:23, 30 March 2025
1960s determined that smoke detectors respond to fires much faster than heat detectors. The first single-station smoke detector was invented in 1970 and...
70 KB (7,525 words) - 19:49, 1 June 2025
A motion detector is an electrical device that utilizes a sensor to detect nearby motion (motion detection). Such a device is often integrated as a component...
12 KB (1,421 words) - 13:21, 27 April 2025
Passive infrared sensor (redirect from Infrared motion detector)
objects in its field of view. They are most often used in PIR-based motion detectors. PIR sensors are commonly used in security alarms and automatic lighting...
14 KB (1,905 words) - 06:27, 30 December 2024
treatment, mining and more. Carbon monoxide detector Heat detector Smoke detector "Aspirating Smoke Detectors (ASD)". Siemens. Retrieved 2012-08-09. "VESDA...
9 KB (937 words) - 01:10, 7 December 2024
these two timescales must be equal: the heat generated by burning is equal to the heat carried away by heat transfer. This makes it possible to calculate...
10 KB (1,098 words) - 20:49, 8 June 2025
according to different measuring principles (smoke detectors, heat detectors, fire gas detectors ...). Product group "other components": These parts of EN...
12 KB (925 words) - 11:58, 15 November 2024
Fire detection (redirect from Fire detector)
Fire detectors sense one or more of the products or phenomena resulting from fire, such as smoke, heat, infrared and/or ultraviolet light radiation, or...
799 bytes (109 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2025
required in most commercial buildings. They may include smoke detectors, heat detectors, and manual fire alarm activation devices (pull stations). All...
30 KB (3,324 words) - 20:37, 21 May 2025
Bolometer (redirect from Thermal detector)
intrinsic thermal time constant, which sets the speed of the detector, is equal to the ratio of the heat capacity of the absorptive element to the thermal conductance...
19 KB (2,135 words) - 20:03, 20 March 2025
depth, as it is bounded by the walls of the room. The radiated heat from this layer heats the surfaces of the directly exposed combustible materials in...
7 KB (899 words) - 20:05, 9 February 2025
buildings). This is due to the improved building codes incorporating fire detectors; technologically advanced firefighting equipment, which includes better...
12 KB (1,526 words) - 22:57, 7 June 2025
alarm notification appliance Fire drill Flame detector Heat detector Manual fire alarm activation Smoke detector Professions, trades, and services Duct cleaning...
2 KB (183 words) - 17:25, 7 September 2024
Compatible detectors included the 7630 Ionisation Detector, 7640 Optical Detector, 7650 Fixed Temperature Heat Detector, 7660 Rate of Rise Heat Detector and...
50 KB (5,176 words) - 18:05, 31 December 2024
enterprise launched by South African Students to deliver a networked heat detector device to decrease risks of fire in rural and urban informal settlements...
9 KB (619 words) - 03:50, 21 December 2024
used in fire sprinkler heads to activate the sprinkler in the presence of heat. They are used in automobile electrical systems as a fuse. A mechanical fusible...
2 KB (284 words) - 19:34, 22 February 2024
Flame retardant Fog nozzle Halligan bar Hard suction hose Hazmat suit Heat detector Hose bridge Hydraulic rescue tool ("Jaws of life") Kelly tool Nomex...
5 KB (573 words) - 04:16, 8 December 2023
Flame retardant Fog nozzle Halligan bar Hard suction hose Hazmat suit Heat detector Hose bridge Hydraulic rescue tool ("Jaws of life") Kelly tool Nomex...
1 KB (132 words) - 17:19, 5 August 2024
Space Heater (redirect from Lie Detector (song))
lights or tractor beams. "Pride of San Jacinto" (Wallace) – 3:13 "Lie Detector" (Heath) – 3:24 "Hello Mrs. Darkness" (Heath) – 3:11 "Jimbo Song" (Heath/Wallace)...
4 KB (292 words) - 16:25, 13 June 2025
models the detonation as a propagating shock wave accompanied by exothermic heat release. Such a theory describes the chemistry and diffusive transport processes...
17 KB (1,887 words) - 13:13, 26 May 2025
Thermoception (redirect from Heat sensation)
replacing or augmenting existing abilities. Other animals with specialized heat detectors are forest fire seeking beetles (Melanophila acuminata), which lay their...
12 KB (1,332 words) - 22:13, 20 February 2025
alarm notification appliance Fire drill Flame detector Heat detector Manual fire alarm activation Smoke detector Professions, trades, and services Duct cleaning...
1 KB (80 words) - 06:15, 28 March 2025
Flame retardant Fog nozzle Halligan bar Hard suction hose Hazmat suit Heat detector Hose bridge Hydraulic rescue tool ("Jaws of life") Kelly tool Nomex...
15 KB (1,913 words) - 03:56, 11 February 2025
alarm notification appliance Fire drill Flame detector Heat detector Manual fire alarm activation Smoke detector Professions, trades, and services Duct cleaning...
5 KB (449 words) - 15:05, 23 October 2023
initiating devices (usually smoke detectors, heat detectors, duct detectors, manual pull stations, and sometimes flame detectors) wired in parallel. These sensors...
27 KB (3,849 words) - 14:12, 14 June 2025
alarm notification appliance Fire drill Flame detector Heat detector Manual fire alarm activation Smoke detector Professions, trades, and services Duct cleaning...
6 KB (605 words) - 04:24, 26 May 2025
alarm notification appliance Fire drill Flame detector Heat detector Manual fire alarm activation Smoke detector Professions, trades, and services Duct cleaning...
2 KB (260 words) - 14:21, 28 December 2024
alarm notification appliance Fire drill Flame detector Heat detector Manual fire alarm activation Smoke detector Professions, trades, and services Duct cleaning...
4 KB (421 words) - 03:42, 29 April 2025
support combustion, or release flammable vapors when subject to fire or heat, in the form in which it is used and under conditions anticipated. Any solid...
34 KB (3,622 words) - 07:09, 15 June 2025