New Technology Fire Extingisher - Perfect For Your TVR
Discussion
jesfirth said:
Race set ups are legal on the road - there is no legislation on them that I am aware of. I have just fitted this in my griff. Its not expensive £140 - took me about 3 hours to install - fabricating the bracket to mount the extinguisher took the most time. The race set ups typically come with 2 wire pull handles to activate the extinguisher - one for use by the driver and one for use by a marshall externally which does mean a hole in the bodywork though. Mine is piped with really easy platic coated flexi metal tubes and push fit joints. It has 2 nozzles - one pointing at my feet and the second in the engine bay pointing at the rear of the engine where the fuel lines could split. I hope it would either put out a small fire or give the extra seconds needed to get out.
Excellent Jes, cheap as chips and simple enough,, I can't work out where you've placed the extinguisher,,, very similar to the one fitted in my mates race car. I think I'll do this sooner rather than later, I might leave off the outside pull handle though
Hi all, I've been doing a bit of digging and although I was more impressed by the statements on the Chinese supplier site than the UK distributor which, IMHO was BS (and I don't mean British Standard 
) heavy and fact light.
By a bit of serendipity the guy that does fire extinguisher training (ex fire service and with high levels qualifications in fire safety) was on site this week. So I asked him to take a look - this is his feedback:
"Aerosol extinguishers have been around for a while now and have recently start appearing in hand held form. They are suited to total flood systems like you have in a computer server room.
It's still early days for this type of hand held extinguishers as there aren't any standards yet. (Although thete is an american standard for total flood systems).
I haven't been able to find any which quote a standard fire size they can extinguish. All other extinguishers will quote a size of either class A or B fire that it can extinguish.
I haven't been able to find one that conforms to the European standard BS EN3 either.
My advice would be don't think they are as good as the sales videos suggest. They are also quite expensive in comparison to a dry powder.
So for the moment I would recommend sticking to the tried and tested extinguisher where you know what you are getting."
So as Dave said earlier - you pays your money and takes you choice.
I'm sticking with dry powder for now but hope these get some proper testing and are as good as they sound from the blurb. A replacement for good old halon would be fantastic.
Let's hope the discussion raised has encouraged a few folks to think about fire risk. Don't forget prevention is better than cure - checked your fuel lines recently?
) heavy and fact light.By a bit of serendipity the guy that does fire extinguisher training (ex fire service and with high levels qualifications in fire safety) was on site this week. So I asked him to take a look - this is his feedback:
"Aerosol extinguishers have been around for a while now and have recently start appearing in hand held form. They are suited to total flood systems like you have in a computer server room.
It's still early days for this type of hand held extinguishers as there aren't any standards yet. (Although thete is an american standard for total flood systems).
I haven't been able to find any which quote a standard fire size they can extinguish. All other extinguishers will quote a size of either class A or B fire that it can extinguish.
I haven't been able to find one that conforms to the European standard BS EN3 either.
My advice would be don't think they are as good as the sales videos suggest. They are also quite expensive in comparison to a dry powder.
So for the moment I would recommend sticking to the tried and tested extinguisher where you know what you are getting."
So as Dave said earlier - you pays your money and takes you choice.
I'm sticking with dry powder for now but hope these get some proper testing and are as good as they sound from the blurb. A replacement for good old halon would be fantastic.
Let's hope the discussion raised has encouraged a few folks to think about fire risk. Don't forget prevention is better than cure - checked your fuel lines recently?
Just one word of warning, I ordered one through ebay last week and it was supposed to be here by Monday, Hermes is the carrier and it's still not here despite a couple of emails saying it was delayed and then them saying they tried to deliver at 6pm yesterday. I will admit I've no had any problems with Hermes before apart from a delivery once at 10.30pm long after I'd gone to bed.
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