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    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...
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  • 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...
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    1960s determined that smoke detectors respond to fires much faster than heat detectors. The first single-station smoke detector was invented in 1970 and...
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    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...
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    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...
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    treatment, mining and more. Carbon monoxide detector Heat detector Smoke detector "Aspirating Smoke Detectors (ASD)". Siemens. Retrieved 2012-08-09. "VESDA...
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    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...
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  • according to different measuring principles (smoke detectors, heat detectors, fire gas detectors ...). Product group "other components": These parts of EN...
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  • 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...
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    required in most commercial buildings. They may include smoke detectors, heat detectors, and manual fire alarm activation devices (pull stations). All...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    buildings). This is due to the improved building codes incorporating fire detectors; technologically advanced firefighting equipment, which includes better...
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    Compatible detectors included the 7630 Ionisation Detector, 7640 Optical Detector, 7650 Fixed Temperature Heat Detector, 7660 Rate of Rise Heat Detector and...
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  • enterprise launched by South African Students to deliver a networked heat detector device to decrease risks of fire in rural and urban informal settlements...
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  • 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...
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    Flame retardant Fog nozzle Halligan bar Hard suction hose Hazmat suit Heat detector Hose bridge Hydraulic rescue tool ("Jaws of life") Kelly tool Nomex...
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  • 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)...
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    models the detonation as a propagating shock wave accompanied by exothermic heat release. Such a theory describes the chemistry and diffusive transport processes...
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    replacing or augmenting existing abilities. Other animals with specialized heat detectors are forest fire seeking beetles (Melanophila acuminata), which lay their...
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    initiating devices (usually smoke detectors, heat detectors, duct detectors, manual pull stations, and sometimes flame detectors) wired in parallel. These sensors...
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    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...
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