I work in an office that is part of a data center (our cubicles are part of an old tape library vault) that is covered by a gas discharge fire protection system.
It was Halon at one time, but I believe it is now charged with CO2 or some other inert gas that is not a fluorocarbon. I walk by the big tank all the time - I'll look at it tomorrow and report back what sort of agent is in it. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:34 PM, Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Haylon. We still have a system like that at work for some reason (the > current excuse is that there is an I/O board in there for a current loop > system) left over from the days when a VAX lived in there. > > We are required to evacuate the building if it ever goes off, Halon is a > chloro-fluorcarbon of some sort, and once you breath it in, it's very > difficult to get it back out of your lungs -- very dense. NASCAR and Indycar > racing had a couple fatalities with it in the 60's or early 70's and quit > using it in race cars -- tended to extinguish the driver along with a fire. > > Pretty funny that most smartphones have an order of magnitude better > processor performance than a DEC VAX. > > Peter > > On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Rich Thomas 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 _______________________________________ 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
