- Author
-
Bright, R. G.
- Title
- Report of Fire Tests on Eight TGS Semiconductor Gas Sensor Residential Fire/Smoke Detectors. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Bureau of Engineering Sciences, Washington, DC
- Report
-
NBSIR 76-990,
April 1976,
16 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
-
fire detectors
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taguchi gas sensor (trademark)
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gas detectors
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smoke detectors
- Identifiers
- UL 217
- Abstract
- At the request of the Bureau of Engineering Sciences Consumer Product Safety Commission, twenty-four Taguchi gas sensor (TGS) detectors, representing eight manufacturers were tested to the requirements of Section 22 (base sensitivity tests) and Section 24 (full-scale fire tests) of Underwriters' Laboratories Standard No. 217, "Standard for Single and Multiple Station Smoke Detectors". Two conventional single-station smoke detectors, one an ionization chamber type and the other a photoelectric type, were included in the test series for comparison. Only one of the TGS detectors was able to meet the requirements of Section 22, base sensitivity tests. None of the TGS detectors were able to meet the requirements of Section 24, full-scale fire tests. The two conventional smoke detectors met the requirements of Section 22 and 24.