Re: [SGish] APC question
From: WJAL21@a...
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:29:59 EDT
Subject: Re: [SGish] APC question
>. I'm not an expert, but have breathed Halon; interesting experience,
sort of
>the anti-Helium, as voices dropped WAY down. Girls talking baritone
sort of
>thing.
>I do know the folks that installed it stated it was tricky to get the
>exactly right amount to be fire retardant but non-lethal.>
>In large spaces, such as our computer room, the stuff comes out at
>hurricane velocity. We had two folks in the room during the dump, and
one
>was lucky that a plexiglas partition didn't crush him, while both
looked
>like they SHOULD have suffered a death of a thousand paper cuts from
the
>stuff flying around.
>I'm tempted to mention stupid halon tricks, but this has gone WAY OT.
>The_Beast
Not sure of the technicalities but I do know that breathing the stuff is
very
unpleasant. I had an extinguisher discharge accidentally in a vehicle I
was
in.
There followed a general struggle to locate the thing, get it stopped,
and to
open up as many doors as possible to vent the stuff. It felt like I had
lost
half my lung capacity at the time.
For the original topic it made me want to get out.
John