It's called a dry pipe system, with most of them being dual-action. Dual-action means that there has to be heat and smoke present before the pipe fills with water to discharge.
Shook From: Gary Whitten [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server Room fire pictures Hopefully, you're allowed to have sprinklers so that water is not present in the pipes over the servers. I forget the term for this, but I'm pretty sure there's a way you can have it so that the pipes are not full and thus reduce/eliminate the chances of accidental discharge. ________________________________ From: Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server Room fire pictures In California, you have to have a water sprinkler system as a backup. If you build a new FM200 or whatever system, must install water also. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Room fire pictures Well, don't think that you can get a Halon system now, it's outdated, and you really don't want it anyway, it's very costly. I don't remember the figures now, it's been 3+ years since we did this, but the cost of putting in the FM200 was ~equivalent to the cost of refilling the Halon tanks once. It's worth checking into, because sprinklers in a server room can pretty much cause just a much damage to equipment as a fire could. Electricity and water don't mix. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Andy Ognenoff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Pretty much same boat here, except we have one sprinkler in our server room (which was converted to that from being an office.) For those that have FM200 or Halon, anyone have a ballpark of what installing a basic suppression system for a 12x12 room would cost? I'm just curios if it's even something we could look into budget-wise. - Andy O. ________________________________________ From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server Room fire pictures I meant CO2 system, not Halon, I don't think you can suffocate with Halon. If my server room goes on fire it will be a total loss. We don't even have sprinklers in our office. :-O ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.7/1895 - Release Date: 1/16/2009 6:52 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
