When you fight a fire with water, the water does a lot more damage than the fire in many cases. In electrical cabinets and transformers, adding water is a very bad idea.Condensed Aerosol generators are packed with a chemical mixture similar to solid-rocket fuel - except that the exhaust actually puts out fires! The chemical fuel-oxidizer mixture reacts to produce a cloud of tiny, micron sized particles of potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3), which happens to be an excellent fire extinguisher. The KHCO3 decomposes to K+ ions, which react with burning fuel to stop the fire chemically - poof, no more fire. As long as the aerosol stays in contact with the fuel, the fire can't re-ignite.
Stat-X is the first fixed aerosol system in America to receive an Underwriters Laboratories (UL) listing - essential to sell to industry. They just made a deal to install fire suppressor generators on the 2 giant NASA "crawlers" that carry the Space Shuttle to the pad! The coolest feature of the unit above is that it has a patented "thermal" switch, so it doesn't need to be plugged in.
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