RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard - Wrong Scott

1999-11-18 Thread Lacey,Scott
M To: EMC-PSTC Subject:RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard Scott, I presume you mean Halon, not halogen. Sorry, but Halon systems are neither invisible nor odourless. When you set one off, the room fills with a smoky haze that has qui

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-18 Thread Egon H. Varju
[SMTP:s_doug...@ecrm.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:53 PM To: geor...@lexmark.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard George, I once worked in a laboratory that developed the Doppler weather radar we all see on TV today. In our just bui

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread georgea
k) Subject: RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard Scott, I beg to disagree, ... but, Halon, along with Freon and other compounds was banned by the Montreal Protocol, ostensibly to protect the ozone layer. Interestingly, the Freon replacements must, per the treaty, be phased out in 20 years - by c

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread Lacey,Scott
PM To: geor...@lexmark.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject:RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard George, I once worked in a laboratory that developed the Doppler weather radar we all see on TV today. In our just built (in 1979) control room

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread Scott Douglas
99 9:42 AM To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard Importance: Low Between a hard place and a rock It is hard to argue that EMC chambers should not have fire protection. The newer tiled facilities may have little combustible content other than the

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread georgea
Between a hard place and a rock It is hard to argue that EMC chambers should not have fire protection. The newer tiled facilities may have little combustible content other than the DUT. However, most factory insurance carriers will insist on an adequate prevention and extinguishing syste

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread Ned Devine
Hello, Put the sprinklers in. Also, make sure they are 360 deg (i.e. spray up and down) heads!!. At a previous employer, we had a fire in a cone lined, shield room. We had sprinklers, but they were only 180 deg. (i.e. down). The fire started when some cones on the ceiling came loose and came

RE: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread WOODS
We also had to install sprinklers. Richard Woods -- From: Ken Javor [SMTP:ken.ja...@emccompliance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 1:37 AM To: Price, Ed; 'emc-p...@ieee.org' Subject: Re: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

Re: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread roger . viles
Not a recommendation - I just saw the ad in Compliance Engineering - but non-combustible pyramid absorbers are offered by the German company Frankonia. See: www.frankonia-emc.com Roger - This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail

Re: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread Ken Javor
This happened to me at a previous employer. There is some sense to it in that foam absorber is quite flammable, even with modern precautions and flammability requirements. We had to install sprinklers. The system was set up so that the sprinklers are dry until a smoke alarm signal allows chargi

Re: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread Matthew Meehan
> My lab just had an annual inspection visit by our friendly fire hazard > inspector. Seems that after 4 successive years of inspections, I suddenly > failed this year. Hi Ed, Don't shoot the bearer. Go find the guy who passed you the last 3 years - shoot him. If it's the same guy - well it's n

Re: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard

1999-11-17 Thread Robert Macy
Great, now all you need are some holes poked in the chamber. - Robert - -Original Message- From: Price, Ed To: 'emc-p...@ieee.org' List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 7:36 PM Subject: Shielded Enclosure Fire Hazard > >Hi Listmembers! > >