There are a lot of halon like materials. The datacenter I used to help run used another air displacement system. I'll look up the brand shortly. Halotron I think it was. It's a hydrocarbon, and it's evaporation and gas displacment work for smothering, cooling, and displacing :-)
Being in the room when the system goes off, is.. uh.. unpleasant. But so long as things don't hit you, or a rack get blown down onto you, you're safe. The air becomes hard to breathe, but not deadly. (provided the system is sized properly for the volume at hand) "you" can survive in lower o2 partial pressures than materials need to burn. :-) On Apr 6, 2015 8:39 PM, "bjoenunley via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > When the AH64 Apache would refuel we always had a fire extinguisher close > by. Also a good idea for me. I will be keeping one handy for me during > refueling operations on my airplanes. > > Has anyone read NTSB reports about wood airplanes catching fire during > refueling? Or know of any? > > The Apache had two halon canisters in each engine compartment activated by > either pilot in case of an engine fire. They phased halon out and did a big > study to come up with a replacement. I could tell you what they evaluated > but not what fire suppression system they decided on. > > Joe > > > "The US Air force uses Halon extinguishers and when I was in the reserves, > I > had Halon extinguishers in my print shop." > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options >
