Re: Sprinklers in instrument rooms

Posted by Feinstein, Timothy on
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Hi Rosemary,

I knew a guy who made a corrugated plastic roof (slanted, with drainage)
to protect his scope from water leakage due to floods and burst pipes.
Sprinklers on the other hand strike me as a risky sword of damocles
hanging over your stuff.  If you need something to meet building codes, we
use a compressed halon system.  You trade danger to the scopes for
suffocation risk, but it works on a sixty second timer so people have
plenty of time to leave the room.  We forbid earphones to make sure people
can hear the alarm.

Cheers,


TF


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>Hi all, (sorry for cross-posting)
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>I know this has been discussed before, just wondered if there were any
>new thoughts. We're moving twice, first into a refurbished basement,
>second time into a new building. The basement has a sprinkler system in
>case of fire, unlike our current building which just has alarms (it's a
>single storey brick building). I imagine the new building will have some
>sort of sprinkler system too.
>
>What precautions, if any, do people take to protect against the unlikely
>showering of your confocal or EM?
>Are there any relatively simple alternatives? (One alternative is to have
>fire-doors and walls for each room but that is prohibitive.)
>
>thanks much,
>Rosemary
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