Who is Douglas Krantz?
Douglas Krantz teaches others how an electronic fire alarm system is:
- Designed
- Installed
- Maintained
- Tested
The tools provided are electronic knowledge mixed with common sense and centered around Life-Safety. Codes and rules are the goals set out for fire alarm systems, but unless the system is built using electronic knowledge and common sense, all centered around Life-Safety, the goals set out in the codes and rules can't be achieved.
Remember, the NFPA Code is performance based; the Code shows how a finished fire alarm system is supposed to perform when detecting fire and when warning people of fire. Failure to follow the codes and rules is failure to have a functioning fire alarm system.
The codes and rules, though, only show the minimum of what is needed to have a functioning fire alarm system. Looking at the codes and rules from a cynical point of view, the codes and rules only show the least that can be gotten away with, not the best way to do anything.
What Douglas Krantz teaches is function based life-safety: how to design, install, maintain, and test a fire alarm system to exceed the least-that-has-be-done-to-be-sort-of-acceptable-performance-goals shown in the NFPA Code.
Background
- Fire Alarm - Programming, servicing, and testing fire alarm systems from 1 or 2 detector systems to systems with over a thousand detectors
- Training - Two years of intensive electronic training - how electronics works, how to repair electronics, and how to design electronic circuits
- Broadcast Engineer - Maintaining television stations, designing radio and television facilities, and performing the engineering for the FCC to initiate an FM radio station
- Contractor - Designing sound reinforcement systems, designing and installing television production studios, and designing and building broadcast electronic equipment
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