Amen- Wonder if we'll have wireless heads in the future.....
Seriously- MIST. Say it like "plastics" in the Graduate (if you don't know the movie, you're not an old-timer, Mrs Robinson). Imagine if we could do mist with small diameter pipe (1/2"?), 5 GPM flow, once they get a nozzle/detector combo that looks acceptably esthetic, and water damage will be minimized. In all seriousness, I believe that's the wave of the future. Maybe Mist and nitrogen (uh-oh, patent infringement) as a 1-2 punch. Other than an excuse to go to Europe when we had money, we went to International fire spkr assoc conference to see what MIST stuff we could learn. Marioff showed video of fire tests they ran in typical office scenario, light hazard where we'd have installed a .1/900 with recessed heads, and their mist controlled the fire nicely. So its on the way, and they seem to be a decade ahead of us over there (Kudos, Stewart and Alan!). Also in wide-spread use shipboard. _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
