Dear Peter
I don't know exact speed of Fire Alarm system as my customers are using different kinds of systems, but the problem arises when my "battery backup power supply" switches
from main supply to battery, during switching period some fire control system starts giving alarm and this happened because of relay.Therefor instead of relay we have started using Diode and this is working perfectly , this diode switch from main to battery in no time when power goes off. But the main problem is the charging current of battery from 200 ms reduces to 100ms because of diode whereas this problem doesn't come in relay. .