[BC] Fire suppression

[Chris Gebhardt]

Barry Mishkind wrote:
> At 01:45 PM 7/3/2009, Dave Dunsmoor wrote:
>>> Whatever happened to that?  Did the environmental wackos decide that was
>>> a no-no?
>>     Yeah, they did. You can still get it, or get the old ones renewed, but
>> it's costly. Supposedly there is a "suitable sub", but I don't know how well
>> it works. I DO know that Halon works, and it works extremely well.
> 
>          Alan, our resident fire expert may weigh in shortly.
> 
>          In the meantime, as I understand it, Halon replaces
>          oxygen and according to some is dangerous for people.

We have Halon 1301 in one of our rooms.  We can have it repaired and 
refilled, but if we build out more space, we cannot expand the system.

There are newer "legal" formulations (ie: FM-200) that also work very well.

I should note that the chemicals themselves are inert.  The Halon (etc) 
won't kill you.   The lack of oxygen, however, may prove problematic.

Chris Gebhardt
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