How hard is my leg being pulled?

[Yankee]

I have a laundry room going into the basement of an existing time share - two commercial washers and three commercial dryers (gas) for an employee to use. The room has been designed by a liscensed professional incluiding requirements for make-up air for combustion. I went for final yesterday. . . the air handler for the make-up air is

1.) on it's own circuit in the panel and

2.) plugged into a wall outlet.

I am being told that if someone either flips the circuit breaker, or manually unplugs the air handler, the gas appliances will stop running (and therefore not require make-up air).

Is this typical or even possible?

 

[Bryan Holland]

Yes. Control interlocking schemes are quite common and easy to set-up. Think of a hood system that turns on some things and shuts off others when activated.

I do see a problem with your explanation. An air handler appliance is NOT permitted to be cord-and-plug connected. This appliance would need to be hard-wired, unless the cord-and-plug is a component of the manufactured product and is factory installed.

 

[Yankee]

Thanks and I see I put this under the wrong section, as it is a commercial installation. I'll ask for the MII's for the unit . . . is there a way for me to test that this system shuts itself down (besides running the dryers and throwing the switch)?