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  • This is an expensive scenario on all counts. Not only do you have a switchgear that is probably now toast, but you have to refill and reactivate the fire suppression system, and let me tell you, the latter is NOT cheap. We had an accidental discharge of our Halon tank in one of our phone vaults a few years ago, and if I remember correctly, that 'accident' ended up costing the facility over $6,000 to have the company refill and recertify the tank. OUCH!!

  • That bang was better than my fireworks!

  • There should be an abort button that can delay for a set time, if the button is hit the second time, the system will dump anyway

  • I actually build 415v switchgear panels for a living, I hope I never fuck up and have this happen I love my job :D

  • that blue door right opposite it, not the taped off one, imagine coming out of there and being hit by a shower of sparks/arcs and/or flames.

    the smoke detector takes WAY too long to detect the smoke, looks like they used an ionisation type, wheras an optical type is much more sensitive to electrical type fires. and also the vents at the bottom and top, shouldn't exposed like that, really high voltage transformers don't have them.

  • is that co2 or water

    

  • Now if this happened in school, it would give us something interesting instead of German...

  • pause at 3 seconds and look at how bright this shit realy is.

  • I'm still trying to figure out how to integrate this alarm into the house, configured to go off and stay on when someone pushes the doorbell between 11PM and 4AM

  • Supercapacitor blowout?

  • @fallingwater could be a switch fault

  • They let the smoke out of it.

  • This looks like a compensation system. Or power factor controller called. Apparently, the capacitors have burst.

  • Well now you know how quickly the smoke detector activates and sends a signal to the panel for alarm.

  • Incorrect, FM-2000 works by displacing oxygen!

    All living things here on Earth Need oxygen or carbon dioxide if living on air

    There are life forms on Earth that can live totally in the absence of free oxygen but they live in water.

  • Depends on the extinguishing agent. FM-200 doesn't require evacuation.

  • The extinguisher fires at 53 seconds, fully 48 seconds after the arc fault.

    There is always a danger to personnel from oxygen displacement as well as forcing gases from the fire outside the area.

    Again, there is ALWAYS the possibility that someone can be killed if the extinguisher discharges.

    That is why there is the alarm.

    It should NEVER be allowed to discharge unless this is actually needed.

    Call the fire department and explain that this is indeed an emergency, give address, cancel discharge.

  • @Arabhacks Theyre still in there! Look at 0:48 omg!

  • @Arabhacks Why killed? Wake up! We are in 21st century. Automatic extinguishing systems no more uses CO2 or Halon. Those systems today uses FM-200 gas which is nontoxic and breathable. There was dozens of tests with humans inside extinguished area.

  • @rybaluc it dosnt matter it displaces the oxygen in the room suffocating who ever is in it if that room is small

  • @MrStemkilla You are wrong. This is principle how Halon based agents works, which is little bit toxic too even in small concentrations(8% required for extinguishing).

    But this isn't principle how FM-200 works.

    It works on principle of absorbing heat from fire and removing free radicals from fire.

    BTW: And please do not interchange FM-100 with FM-200. FM-100 is halon based.

  • @rybaluc ok.. it is reliseing a gas and alot of it. we have that cleared. now it being toxic or not it is still not oxygen. we have that down.. if you are pumping anything into a inclosed room that is not oxygen in fairly large quantitys its going to push alot of gas out of the room too now oxigen is only %15 at ground sea level and if you push another gas in. it pushes out more air now oxigen in that room may only be %10 or lower if its a small room it may only be %5 that can get dangerous

  • @MrStemkilla Required concentration for extinguishing by FME-200 is around 6%. Its not too much if you know that air oxygen level is more or less 21% Extinguishing systems with clear agents are using limiters, override buttons and off course there is not so much gas on site. Reason is simple. Those clear agents are expensive. False alarms cost money.Also extinguishing systems have to be inspected otherwise in case of failure insurrance company wont pay you or they pay you only few bucks.

  • HV Cubicle ??

  • Someone should have overridden the fire extinguisher system.

    The next course of action is to inform the fire department.

    Unless there is a fire, the extinguisher should not be allowed to discharge, perhaps someone pulled a pull station, incorrect.

    Stand by the pull station while calling the fire department.

    Again, unless there is a compelling reason to, do not discharge the central fire system.

  • @Arabhacks I would think the person's safety would be a higher priority than the extinguisher discharging. This is a high voltage electrical station, would you want to stand near the thing that just exploded and wait for a firetruck to arrive?

  • Why do that for?

  • So if you were locked in that room, would the huge amount of CO2 just suffocate you in minutes??

  • @B1r6m4n Yes, its built to do that otherwise they wouldn't have such systems. The idea is to remove Oxygen as quick as possible from the room hence stopping the fire.

    Not sure about the US but in the UK these system can only me activated manually from outside the room.

  • what is that first alarm. it sounds like an est genesis but it's lower.

  • AAaaaaah I.... Can't..... BREATH!!!

  • that's a 10 sec delay between event and activation :/ what is this device anyway???

  • @tonewolfsyd the co2 system, the alarm is so you can get out before you suffocate 

  • Eu gostaria de tirar algumas fotografias desse jeito, para ver o que resta do painel elétrico

  • Aconteceu um curtocircuito dentro do painel, e foi acionado o detector de fumaça, que disparou uma cirene.

  • ohhhhhhhhhh earth shaking

  • what was that thing?

  • this is what happens when you dont pay your electric bill.

  • Unfortunately Halon makes great holes in the ozone layer and when it reaches the fire it gives off phosgene gas.

  • wouldnt halon be better i mean i know the thing just blew up but halon doesnt leave any type or resudue on sensitive electric parts

  • @tigermki For example in my country halon is strictly prohibited by law. But i know that in USA are many old halon installations. Well its all about a money:( However i must admit that in USA is better fire prevention than here in Banana Czech republic.

  • lol, it's tagged under HOWTO & STYLE...

  • @periesicsd HOWTO spend thousands! XD

  • @rockerzac99 ho yeah!!! lol

  • oooh, that sounded expensive...

  • Thats shit scared the f*ck outta me...i had my computer speaker's up loud too..lmao

  • @REDT4R1 This video made me jump when the explosion went off!

  • Just what we need... Add a bit of water to the mix...

  • @RellyOhBoy It is CO2

  • oops!

    

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  • it's an automatic fire suppressant system, suffocates the flames is the event of a fire

  • @rabm80 Get out of the room or it will suffocate you !

  • Its not CO2. its pyrogen. Google it.

  • @randychuah or inergen

  • wat the fuck happend? did the breaker blow up or some shit?

  • @Besoeker is that not a hi-fog system? rather than a CO2? The only CO2 systems I have seen are installed over fule systems (marine).

    Also you can clearly see someone come into view shortly before the "CO2" is disscharged. You would never discharge CO2 without the vacinity being cleard first (unless you HAD too?)

  • wat happened actually?

  • Check out the guy hanging around at 0:47

  • @MrSecretlevel I didn't see any.

  • @SpecializedChild462 Left side of the screen. Wearing an orange shirt. You can see his shadow for a few seconds before.

  • @MrSecretlevel Oh i saw it! He's gonna be asphyxiated by whatever that was.

  • why were you filming?

  • Looks like a good outcome to me. Blast was contained by the cabinet.

  • I mean halon not halogen

  • This is not your video and those alarms are warning that employees haave 1 min before the rooms alarm systems dispense halogen gas to kill the flame thus the oxygen.

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  • WAY TO GO CHUCK NORRIS YOU BROKE IT....

  • It can't be a CO2 total flood as it would have killed everyone in the room as the extinguishing concentration is far, far above the lethal concentration for life.

    It isn't halon as it's 2006 and in the UK & is illegal (unless an excepted use) so it's got to be an inert gas or HCFC blend.

    Could be CO2 local application to the cabinet. Cheaper to have just dumped a 5kg CO2 portable into it though!

  • @contactacb The 1st stage alarm is to warn of the CO2 gas and to make sure everybody is out as yes, it is lethal

  • @contactacb That's why the alarm is sounding: the first siren warns about the fact a gas-dispense will take place in a certain timewindow, the second is probably just a smoke detection alarm. If you hear the first alarm, it means you have to get the hell out of there...

  • Roshni by any chance?

  • @FireAlarmFan1994 the second alarm yes. idk abut the first, which i'm interested to know the alarm model.

  • @yellowtza did the gas come out of the light above?

  • Should we do something ?

  • Bloody hell

  • "A bit of a bang" <-- understatement of the decade?

  • "How many times do we have to tell you guys? DON'T bring your toaster ovens from home and use them at work!"

  • what happend?

    

  • i need an alarm clock like that.

  • those doors look a little small for that gear. time for a code update.

  • flux capacitor blew!

    

  • Oh dear not another ABB inverter drive bit the dust

  • Electrical unit shorts out. Some alarm goes off. Find the nearest Exit and get the heck out. Simple.

  • what happened anyway?

  • PCBs are busting outta there like crazy right? When a transformer blows it must vaporize the stuff.. it would seems

  • Alarm+ Flashing Light = Get the fuck out of here!! LOL....

  • A SU MADRE

  • This guy just wanted to take a free shower

  • that cO2

  • i could have done that

  • Dude that sprinkler system is fucking awesome! The water was tearing shit up!

  • Russian toasters are a bit shit,it did'nt even pop the bread up

  • LOL looks light was gonna come off ceiling for sprinkler

  • Interesting. Don't know where it is, but it looks a heck of a lot like a Scottish hydro power station to me... and I've been in a good few of them! :D

  • What exactly happened inside the cabinet, anyway?

  • That's what happens when you put popcorn in the microwave too long.

  • First alarm, main fire alarm system

    Second alarm, CO2 discharge evacuation alarm

  • @FACP07 I think it's Halon not CO2

  • @Razook2114 I think your right, now that I look back at the video, I relized that CO2 would produce a more visable "fog" and Co2 dosent dissapate as much as halon, thanks for pointing this out!

  • Is that the sprinkler system at the end?

  • @MrTransman99

    It's CO2.

  • @Besoeker: CO2? Uhm... that's rarely ever used like that. Usually that would be Halon to A) kill the flame by interfering with the chemistry of combustion B) Kill only the flame and not everyone else and C) Leave no residue that can ruin unaffected equipment. CO2 kills flame by extreme cold and it only takes 8% in the air to kill folks :P

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  • @hyperbaricchicken101 Its an inert gas. Possibly Argon, or Halon

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  • @yellowtza Halon

  • @Besoeker

    Sure its not Halon?......pretty sure thats what the pre alarm is for

  • @Besoeker

    Not it is not it is a FM200 the alternate to Halon. We have them in all of our communications shelters. When the alarm goes off you have 60 seconds to abort the discharge or the system will discharge and fill the room with FM200 Gas which displaces all the oxygen in the room!

  • @SacNewsGuy If I remember correctly, FM200 doesn't displace all the oxygen in the room, just....drops it to about 18% or so.

  • @Besoeker Wouldn't CO2  have 'smoke'...Halon?

  • @Noblc09 CO2 wouldnt have smoke, CO2 is colorless and odorless. the mist is water vapor condensing from the temperature difference.

  • @jgdogg441 Yes that is what i meant ty 

  • @MrTransman99 no offence but are u fucking serious? really? water and electricity hmmm good combination? FUCK NOT IT AINT! CO2 is the only thing you can safely put on a electrical fire

  • @tylerwalker2 or halon.

  • @MrTransman99 Its the space vacume.

  • @LamenSays lol

  • whoops i overslept

  • What happened?! COOL!

  • 1st alarm- Ok... I'm Feeling Queasy. 2nd Alarm- Grab the Shitter! I GOTTA GO!

  • @MKIIProductions we got t´hat second alarm at our work too if some stuff jams the system, nothing serious at ours though.

  • With all those alarms, it seemed like a nuclear reactor was going critical.

  • I think an apprentice terminated that wire.

  • Wait a minute I can't remember fixing that one, you mean I've got competition?

  • there is still some1 in the room at 0.49 seconds on the left hand side you see there shadow then hand

  • The alarms mean its time to abandon the spaceship. The aliens have taken over.

  • wow and i thought my fire extinguisher was cool

  • What's this here button do??

  • The machine didn't say "do not pour coke into"...

  • got Jesus ?

  • atleast it was in a sealed container

  • @shonerboner ebay

  • Damn! That's where I left that screwdriver!

  • what happpensif you are in there when they pump co2

    

  • @rroge5 Then you suffocate. But holding your breath would probably give you an extra two minutes or so.

  • Oops. "John Our Microwave Broke!"

  • the two alarms make a nice little rhythm

  • what if someone was in the toilet and have no time to get out of the building ?

    the person die ?

  • @hitachi088 The co2 is only used in certain area of buildings.

  • Test obviously...

  • i want that as a car alarm

  • OMG. where do i get the alarms? perfect alarm clock!

  • fucken runnnnnn...

  • is it Halon or CO2 ?

    

  • OOOPS!!!!! did i do that

  • did you anticipate this?

  • thanks for the soundtrack

  • WTF happened near the end?

  • @yoududenut its a CO2 fire suppression system.

  • what happened there?

  • what am i looking at? is that a server? or a transformer or a barker station

  • Look there is someone's shadow on the wall and then an elbow appears close to gas injection all looks a little staged .

    one thing you don't wont to do is breath in excessive amounts of co2 and halon gas is very bad for human life.in a facility I worked at for a while there halon system had many rotating flashing lights which went thought the entire complex, large signs and many control boxes , fire doors etc.

    probably a thunder flash mounted inside cabinet all rigged for camera.

  • OOOOOPS i need to stop leaving my stuff switched on

  • at first i thought it was an actual sprinkler, looked like it. i was like are they retarded? then i realized it was CO2. =)

  • Was this a test? Or did this camera just happen to be there l0l.

  • ok im a firefighter the 1st alarm is for smoke the second is for halon not co2 if it was co2 youll see the water consetraction halon is used more in eletercal because co2 forms condesation

  • @nyfdRIP It might interest you to know that Halon 1301 it was banned in Australia in 1995 and by the year of 2003, all Halon 1301 fire suppression systems were removed throughout Europe and in many other parts of the world.

  • @alanbenney but there more then 2 types they still use them

  • @notoriousBIGWHISKY okay pussy listen say it to my fucking face ass hole

  • @notoriousBIGWHISKY wow okay for you simpleton no firefighter is a fire in your house gonna magicly go away i dont think so you fucking cocksucking faggot ass bitch

  • @nyfdRIP consetraction? eletercal ? condesation? English please.

  • @Drivinfast247 dude i type fast you still know what i ment

    

  • @nyfdRIP Indeed. That's why a Co2 discharge is cold steamy-white.

  • @shollys9 yup all it is is the water molecules in the aire freezing temporay and replaces oxygen with carbon dioxcide but it leves a residue

  • @nyfdRIP there is also another one called INERGEN, it lowers the percent of air to 15% low enough to put out any fire but enough still to breathe if inside

  • @xXxM4A1xXx08 Correct :)

  • @nyfdRIP glad halon is banned, co2 is much more fun

  • @nyfdRIP Actually Halon was banned from manufacture in the early 90's, or somewhere around that time, so your statement that halon is used more in "electrical" than CO2 isn't really a correct statement to make. And to be honest i have never seen a CO2 extinguisher or system have condensation, thus the reason why Co2 is considered a "clean agent".

  • well that 1 was getting old anyway

  • Possibly the first alarm was from the extinguishing system going into '1st stage'. When a second detector activated or someone hit a manual alarm the control panel went into '2nd stage' warning personnel to exit the area. Possibly

  • ohhhhh fuck.

  • warning, the self destruct sequence has been activated. all personnel proceed to the bottom platform

  • @cctoast....yeah but I'd guess you can't breathe either of these gases. There's someone's elbow on the far left of the screen right before the halon/CO2/OMGthere'safire gas is pumped in.

  • That combination of alarm is really horrifying.

  • I'm sure that not CO2....CO2 is no longer allowing in "manned" spaces. I'm pretty sure that is FM-200.

  • it's a good demonstation-video. But who cleanted it up?

  • Server room failure!