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Who here has a sprinkler system in their arcade?
sandheaver:
inventing a fire suppression system is going to be more troublesome than selecting an existing system to deploy.
your idea might work, though, if you can get a failsafe sensor, and enough logic in whatever is using the camera / IR sensor feeds to recognize a fire from a hot day where the A/C broke, for example. The IR sensors that are cheap sense IR only; they can't read temperature. You'd need enough logic to truly detect a fire every time and never detect a fire when there isn't one. Might be hard, might be easy, I don't know. Seems that use of a smoke detector would probably be a more reliable sensor system.
I still maintain that insurance is the best recovery method. knowing that a company is legally bound to replace my stuff seems a lot easier than working out a way to prevent the damage in the first place. I do believe that prevention is the best method, but the best prevention methods are expensive and lethal, as previously discussed.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: mgb on April 18, 2013, 05:10:19 pm ---Chad, that may be a fusible link heat sensor over your boiler. Usually just cuts the fuel if tripped.
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It's on the water pipe. There isn't any water involved with my furnace.
TopJimmyCooks:
Inergen is another halon replacement used for data center fire suppression. It's not pleasant but it is more surviveable than halon if it goes off with people in the room. Again, as others have mentioned, very expensive, has to be maintained, tied into a proper fire alarm system, etc. not really for home use.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: sandheaver on April 28, 2013, 08:37:59 pm ---your idea might work, though, if you can get a failsafe sensor, and enough logic in whatever is using the camera / IR sensor feeds to recognize a fire from a hot day where the A/C broke, for example. The IR sensors that are cheap sense IR only; they can't read temperature. You'd need enough logic to truly detect a fire every time and never detect a fire when there isn't one. Might be hard, might be easy, I don't know. Seems that use of a smoke detector would probably be a more reliable sensor system.
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Well, brightness of a black body object connotes temperature. Anyways, I'm sure some Tesla-like mother ---smurf--- came out with something ridiculously simple, and analog at that, decades ago. And the same thing happened.
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