NICET Fire Alarm Exam Toolkit

Live battery, voltage-drop, strobe, speaker, and spacing calculators. Field checklists. NFPA 72 reference cards. Plus 98 self-paced sample questions.

NICET Fire Alarm Exam Toolkit is a field toolkit for fire alarm technicians, inspectors, and designers. Run battery sizing on a roof, check voltage drop in a riser room, plan strobe coverage at the kitchen table, walk a periodic inspection on a tablet, and pull up a clean NFPA 72 reference card in the cab.

It is built for hands, not for cramming. Calculators that update as you type. Field checklists that produce ready-to-send summaries. A Project Notebook that keeps a record of every job you touch. And — for the times you want to study on the side — 98 self-paced sample questions organized by toolkit topic.

INTERACTIVE CALCULATORS

• Battery Sizing — add every standby and alarm load, set hours and minutes, derate, and the app surfaces the next standard battery size. Save the worksheet to a project for later.

• Voltage Drop — pick AWG, dial in one-way distance and end-load, and the worst-case voltage at the appliance plus the pass / fail margin update live. The maximum length that just meets the appliance minimum is shown alongside.

• Strobe Coverage — enter the room dimensions and get the minimum listed wall-mount candela from the standard square-room coverage table.

• Speaker SPL — free-field SPL at any distance from a speaker rated at a given SPL @ 10 ft, plus the maximum distance that still meets a target dBA.

• Detector Spacing — enter room dimensions and listed spacing (S); the app draws the half-S / full-S grid, counts detectors, and confirms the 0.7 × S diagonal rule.

FIELD CHECKLISTS Periodic Visual Inspection, Acceptance Test Outline, Annual Battery Load Test, Smoke Detector Sensitivity, and Reacceptance After Modification. Each step has detail prompts and an optional field note. Export the completed checklist as a clean text summary via the iOS share sheet.

PROJECT NOTEBOOK Save snapshots from any calculator to a named project. Add a site address, AHJ name, free-form notes. Each project lives as its own JSON file on the device. Export the whole project — every saved calc, every note — as a text summary you can drop into an email, a PDF, or your shop's record-keeping system.

NFPA 72 SWIPE-CARD REFERENCE Pick a chapter — code hierarchy, initiating devices, notification appliances, circuits & pathways, power & batteries, system design, inspection & testing, ECS & special systems, field math — and swipe through compact concept cards. Plain-English summaries, written from scratch.

SAMPLE QUESTIONS (STUDY SUPPLEMENT) Flashcard-style sample questions organized by toolkit topic: battery & power, voltage drop, notification, initiating devices, circuits & pathways, system design, inspection & ITM, and NFPA 72 code interpretation. Tap a choice, reveal the rationale, swipe to the next card. No timer, no score, no exam mode — just self-paced study you can do between calls.

GLOSSARY A-to-Z fire alarm vocabulary, searchable. Quick lookups in the truck.

DESIGNED FOR IPAD AND IPHONE NavigationSplitView sidebar layout on iPad and landscape iPhone. Adaptive forms on every calculator screen. Number-pad input fields with live result cards beside them on wide layouts, stacked cleanly on iPhone portrait. Every text element is fully visible at every Dynamic Type size — no truncated questions, explanations, or reference content.

PRIVACY All data is stored locally on your device. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. No internet connection required for any feature.

DISCLAIMER This app is an independent field utility. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NICET, NSPE, NFPA, or any code-publishing organization. Calculator results are estimates intended to guide design work — they do not replace an engineer's stamped calculations or AHJ approval. Sample questions are an independent study aid and are not actual exam items. Always verify against the edition of NFPA 72 currently adopted by your local Authority Having Jurisdiction.