QUOTE(Gearhead1432 @ May 23 2010, 04:12 AM)
QUOTE(6freak @ Mar 25 2009, 12:51 PM)
I could be wrong god knows I am alot! But halon is not what you want in your car that is for a fuel or oil fires and will do nothing for an electrical fire.Halon takes all the air from the surounding area and if it happens to go off inside the car with you in it you cant breath.If you want a fire bottle in your car use a A.B.C. bottle its safer and works for all type`s of fires A.B.C. D rated bottle will work for magnesium products and Titanium....Thats why theres no helon bottles in race cars
Small 5 pound (1 quart) HALON 1211 bottles are rated B and C for fuel (flamable liquid) and electical type fires. That's why they are on aircraft. These are also the two primary causes of fire in a car. Also, HALON it self has low vapor toxisity. However it's decomposision products can be hazardous. At decomposision it gives off a sharp acrid odder, which is the built in signal to leave the area.
One more thing, HALON 1211 bottles over 9 lbs are A rated as well.
Personaly I would go with HALON 1211 or CBrCLF2. Infact, I trust my life with it every day.
-Rob
Been using them on oil coolant CNC machines now for a long time. It's not pretty when 60 Gallons of cutting oil go off, especially with the 3000 PSI pumps I built for them. Halon puts it out so fast the operators usually don't even realize they had a fire except the machine shut down. The real nice thing about them is no mess to clean up. The old dry chemical stuff took them several days to clean up, and several weeks of repair to the machines. Now they are usually back up after just changing the cutting oil.
And I am still working with Safecraft to get us a reasonably priced system engineered for our cars. Don and I have been a little busy lately.