From: Doug Evans <devans@n...>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:45:40 -0500
Subject: [OT] Halon 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.