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30 NFPA 72A - Standard For The Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Local Protective Signaling Systems

NFPA 72A is the 1987 edition of the standard for the installation, maintenance, and use of local protective signaling systems for guard's tour, fire alarm, and supervisory service. It provides requirements for the performance and capacities of initiating device circuits and signaling line circuits. It also contains the first requirements for wireless initiating devices. NFPA 72A has been updated and improved since it was first published addressing these systems in 1898 to simplify the guidance offered on local protective signaling systems.

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30 NFPA 72A - Standard For The Installation, Maintenance, and Use of Local Protective Signaling Systems

NFPA 72A is the 1987 edition of the standard for the installation, maintenance, and use of local protective signaling systems for guard's tour, fire alarm, and supervisory service. It provides requirements for the performance and capacities of initiating device circuits and signaling line circuits. It also contains the first requirements for wireless initiating devices. NFPA 72A has been updated and improved since it was first published addressing these systems in 1898 to simplify the guidance offered on local protective signaling systems.

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NFPA 72A

Standard for the


INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE and
USE of LOCAL PROTECTIVE SIGNALING
SYSTEMS for GUARD'S TOUR, FIRE
ALARM, & SUPERVISORY SERVICE
1987 Edition

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Standard for rhc

Installation, Maintenance, and Use of

Local Protective Signaling Systems

for Guard's Tour, Fire Alarm, and Supervisory Service

1987 Edition

Thrs edition of NFPA 72A. Stondardfor the Imballation, Maintenance, uttd Use of
Local P-otectiw Sgnalikg Syterns fur Ctiard'r Tour, Fire Alarm, and Supermimy
S e m c s , was prepared by the Technical Committee on Protective 5ig1aiing Systems,
released by rhe Correlating Cornmi ttce an SignaIing Systems, and acted on by the Na-
tiona! Fire Protection Association, Inc. a t its Annual Meeting held May 18-21 , 1987 in
Cincinnati, Ohio. It wan iasued by the Standards Cwncil onJune 10, 1987, with an rf-
fectivc date of June 30, 1987. and supersedes a11 previous editions.
The 1987 edition o[ this standard has bee11 approved by the Amer~canNational
Standards Institute.

Origin and Dwthpment of NFPA 7PA


This standard has a long history dating back to 1898. Originally. local prorective
signaling sptems were covered in a general NFPA aandarb an ~ignafingsystem* but
thia material was rtparated tiam the other types of systems in 1964 as part of a pro-
gram designed ro simplify rhc guidance being offcrcd. The ciforrnancc and
P
cnpacirirs of initiating devicc circuits and sipaIing line circuits, a ong with elevator
recall for fire fighters' ~ervice,have been introduced in this edition of the standard.
The requirements for wiretcsr initiating dtvicn arc a h contained in rhis edilion.

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