impact halon on hardware

[Systeemingenieurs Infoc]

This morning, our halon fire extinguishing system went off by mistake. We have several K, L, N, D, A and compaq DL380 (and other) servers in that room.

Should we wory about the impact of the halon gaz on the systems ? The systems kept running without interrupt.

tia

hein coulier

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Take a look at next ducument,

http://docs.sun.com/source/805-5863-12/805-5863-11-9.html

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[John Bolene]

We have had 2 tests in the past with no problems.

Halon itself will not be a problem, the problem comes from the fire and the reaction products.

We did shut down the systems before the tests as the release of halon cuts off all power to the room.

We also were told last year that if we had another discharge, we could not get replacement halon. All new computer room construction at my company is to have water supression.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

The halon will not be a problem to the equipment but the people need to evacuate. As mentioned, Halon is no longer available. Many sites have now converted to C02 systems now. A very common cause of a false trigger is HVAC repair. The refrigerant can falsely trigger the smoke detectors so that a manual shutdown of the fire suppression system is needed before any HVAC repair work.

[Brian M Rawlings]

The reason halon was so widely used as a fire suppression agent is that it is inert, and will not harm the equipment it is trying to protect. It will not hurt your equipment. In fact, if you wanted to preserve your computer environment for 1000 years to puzzle future computer geeks ("hey, where's the neural interface?"), you would ideally fill the room with halon or something equally inert.

Regards... --bmr