On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 15:33 -0400, Andrew Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Martin, Patrick wrote: > > > I'm kind of scared to add water to my half-baked approach at doing things. > > If your equipment is catching on fire, maybe having water lines nearby > isn't a bad idea?
You should never use water for electrical fires!!! Water will extinguish fire yes, but it also conducts electricity. Dry chemical fire extinguishers do not cost much money. Usually no more than a regular fire extinguisher. Its really not a bad idea to have one in the house, along with a regular fire extinguisher and maybe one specific for the kitchen. Or that new stuff that comes in a spray can, I believe its safe for electrical fires. I am some what scared of fires in my computer room in my house. Because my residence had a slab leak before I purchased it, and all piping is now in the attic, PVC. Good and bad, fire would burn the PVC releasing water that might put out the fire. After releasing noxious gases from the PVC, not good, much less electrical aspect. Thus most any Cat5e/Cat6, or like RG6 coax will be have a plenum coating. Which when plenum burns it does not release the noxious gases that PVC does :) Part of the reason I fear fire is a house two doors from me did burn down to the ground a few years back. It caught fire twice, in the same night. First time half the fire depts of Mandarin came, like 6 big trucks and other vehicles blocking the entire street. Pretty sure they did not put out the fire entirely, because it started again before morning and this time leveled the house. It was either arson or a kitchen fire. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
