Oooh, HALON! Safer than CO2 at the recommended concentrations when used as a fire suppressant, but bad for the ozone layer. Also a #%^@ of a lot more expensive than CO2 setups, or extinguishers, but won't harm equipment.
Walt On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > I worked in an office once where the middle of the space was a raised floor > glassed-in room with a bunch of PDPs and VAxs in it. One day someone > tripped the fire suppressant (I forget what it was called, some kind of > freon) and it took about 30sec to completely blow down, alarms going off, > etc. It cost a fair amount to replace it all. No one died but I think the > guy who tripped it wished he were dead. > > --R > > > On 12/4/11 7:09 PM, Walt Zarnoch wrote: >> >> Newer refrigerants are quite inert, so explosion/fire issues aren't that >> big. >> The worst problem I can foresee would be if a unit vented the entire >> charge >> in a closed room, in which case you would have oxygen displacement. >> >> Walt >> On Dec 4, 2011 6:51 PM, "Allan Streib"<str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >> >>> MG<trainpain2...@yahoo.com> writes: >>> >>>> still don't like the freon circulation. >>> >>> Why not? A heck of a lot easier to snake copper tubing through existing >>> construction than to install ductwork. >>> >>> Allan >>> >>> -- >>> 1983 300D >>> 1979 300SD >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
