- Location
- Tennessee NEC:2017
- Occupation
- Semi-Retired Electrician
A couple of electrician friends and myself have been asked to quote a build-out on an empty space. The customer plans on putting in a "gaming room". This is where you can go in, pay a fee, and play video games. I think against other players world wide.
Playing the games, one would be wearing head phones. The building inspector said that since head phones would be used, power would have to be turned off at the stations should the fire alarm go off. Reason being the participants wouldn't hear the alarm with the head phones on.
My question(s) would be on how to accomplish this. We would have to add circuits to accommodate the equipment. My thoughts would be that a subpanel would have to be installed since there would be multiple circuits added. There is already a fire alarm system in place. So I'm thinking a shunt trip breaker that would kill the subpanel would be what's needed. It would need to be tied into the fire alarm panel, which would have to be by someone licensed for that. I don't know how else to turn multiple circuits off without using multiple shunt trip breakers.
Any thoughts on what is needed here? This is completely new to me and I'm only guessing at what ways to accomplish this.
Playing the games, one would be wearing head phones. The building inspector said that since head phones would be used, power would have to be turned off at the stations should the fire alarm go off. Reason being the participants wouldn't hear the alarm with the head phones on.
My question(s) would be on how to accomplish this. We would have to add circuits to accommodate the equipment. My thoughts would be that a subpanel would have to be installed since there would be multiple circuits added. There is already a fire alarm system in place. So I'm thinking a shunt trip breaker that would kill the subpanel would be what's needed. It would need to be tied into the fire alarm panel, which would have to be by someone licensed for that. I don't know how else to turn multiple circuits off without using multiple shunt trip breakers.
Any thoughts on what is needed here? This is completely new to me and I'm only guessing at what ways to accomplish this.
