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Re: [PLUG] Help with Lawsuit
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Stephen Gran wrote:
| On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:15:20AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter said:
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|>Are they really still using Halon, though? I would have expected them
|>to have upgraded to a less human-unfriendly setup by now. (Though,
|>maybe it doesn't matter much; it's pretty seldom that a human should
|>be in the cage.)
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| The law in Philadelphia, at least, is that new installations are not
| allowed to use halon, but existing fire suppressions systems don't yet
| have to be retrofitted. There are still a bunch of halon systems around
| Philly, at least, and judging from the quality of the rest of their
| alarm systems and the amount of false positives, I'd like to see them
| go. The problem, as always, is money.
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This is esentially correct. There may be local regs, but the overall
convention is international. It follows the Toronto convention on CFC`s,
for example R-12,R-22 (refrigerant gasses) and Halon among others. some
countries are still allowed to manufacture some of the legacy gasses,
but even they have a future no manufacture date. For example The US and
Canada are no longer allowed to manufacture R-12 or Halon. Sales are
allowed if you can prove that your stock is lagacy and not smuggled. I
belive the new fire suppresant is an extremly fine powder under pressure
~ like halon. Once released it must stay in suspension for an minimum
predetermined ammount of time( i forget how long) and reach a
predetrmind height in the sealed room it is supposed to protect. Re:
legacy gasses. Everthing eventually leaks, so eventually that money will
have to be spent.
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