CO2 is an great extinguishant in a confined space you are not in.Well, that looked like dry powder, rather than CO2; I hope not too many people got it all over themselves and inhaled it -- it's probably going to trash all the adjacent movers, too...
CO2 is about 3 times as much money, and worth every. Friggin. Penny if you have an electronic rig to protect.
Yep, racks are a great example of a confined space you're not in and you can starve a fire pretty quickly with CO2 displacementThat said, without my input, the datacenters and booths I've worked in have generally had CO2 hand extinguishers
@porkchop ; "Halo" as an abbreviation for 'Halon' can I assume, or am I misinterpreting?Halo is expensive, but worth it around expensive gear. We went to it for the vicinity of all of our critical cabinets.
@porkchop ; "Halo" as an abbreviation for 'Halon' can I assume, or am I misinterpreting?
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.
Every show I have worked that used Pyro, The Pyro company, and Fire Marshal expected Co2. Same goes for every production rider that has come across my desk; Co2. There may be different standards in different places, but that has been my experience.
Halotron yes, although there are some recycled Halon clean agent extinguishers out there that can still be purchased for similar purposes.
CO2 is significantly more well known. AHJ's primary focus is rarely pyro so it is much easier to just use what they're familiar with. Also in a practical sense CO2 is much cheaper and easier to replenish so you're more likely to have a greater amount of extinguishing capability if those are what you've brought for fire safety. That's also why water cannon style type A extinguishers are popular for shows where the pyro is most likely to start a class A fire (trash, wood and paper). I used to have both water and CO2 at my firing position.
On a touring rig I would put a halotron near the dimmer and audio racks and have more standard extinguisher elsewhere. For a reasonably contained fire like what's in the video you would have time fore the lighting guy to say "no use this one".
...and Type A is also great for watering the interns.
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