Fire Prevention System Utility Panel

I stick mine on the outside of the house and the sprinklers start a little bit after the fire starts.

I've read that if you put the panel on the outside of the house on a particular floor, then it'll activate sprinklers in every room on that floor as needed. So say if you have a 3-story house & put a panel on the second floor, the panel will activate when there's a fire anywhere on that floor, but not on the 1st or 3rd floor.

If you put a panel inside the house, it'll only activate in the room that it's contained in. So say, for example, if you had an open-layout living room/dining area/kitchen & your sim's stove catches on fire, sprinklers would come on in that whole area & not just in the kitchen part since it's technically all one room. However, if your sim kid's experiment with the bunsen burner went horribly wrong in their bedroom but the panel isn't in their room, then well...

"JPNeko;c-16302182" wrote:
Don't know why it hasn't been working for me. I didn't know it has to be in the same room where the fire starts, but sometimes I've put it on the outside of the house and still nothing happens?

It can be placed anywhere for the floor you want to use it on, I put it on the outside of the house. I believe you also need a fire alarm in the room with the fire to set off the sprinklers.

"drake_mccarty;c-16302355" wrote:

It can be placed anywhere for the floor you want to use it on, I put it on the outside of the house. I believe you also need a fire alarm in the room with the fire to set off the sprinklers.

I always put a fire alarm in the kitchen and the utility panel somewhere else in or outside the house. Still I've never seen the sprinklers in action. Makes me wonder if it's a bug.

Mine has worked with putting the utility panel outside and a smoke alarm in the kitchen. The sprinklers went off automatically. This just happened in a house I had modified to add the sprinklers. I think the first time I saw the sprinklers in action was in the original Goth home.

That's really strange, I wonder if other people experience this? It sounds like a bug. I personally haven't had a fire yet & have no idea what'd happen to me if there was one.

You can put it outside the house, the sprinklers will be on a few seconds after the fire starts.

Don't know why it hasn't been working for me. I didn't know it has to be in the same room where the fire starts, but sometimes I've put it on the outside of the house and still nothing happens?

I put mine outside as its ugly and the spinklers still work inside the house.

For some reason mine seems to be working now. Had a fire and the sprinklers extinguished it, although they only started after the cooker and a counter were charred black.