Halon fire extinguisher are safety tools that are gaseous when discharged in the aircraft environment. Halon fire extinguisher are in nearly universal use in aircraft fire extinguishers, both portable and fixed. You can find some advantages from using this fire extinguisher. Some other advantages are no impairing vision and no freezing surfaces.
They are divided in two forms such as Halon 1211, BromoChlorodiFluoromethane (CBrClF2) also sometimes known as BCF, this is used only in portable extinguishers, and Halon 1301, Bromotrifluoromethane (CBrF3) that is used only in fixed extinguisher installations.
Halon fire extinguisher does not produce residues and therefore do not cause secondary damage. However, the fumes are toxic if inhaled and all practicable precautions should be taken when they are used. These products have been identified as causing damage to the Ozone layer.
As a result, their manufacture and use have been banned for many years in most countries and non-essential uses have been eliminated. Nevertheless, they remain widely in use on board aircraft for most applications because of the difficulty in finding alternatives.
Halon fire extinguisher is perfect for the cockpit because this product leaves no residue. Otherwise, this fire extinguisher does not corrode costly avionics or other airplane parts. You can find some advantages from using this fire extinguisher. Some other advantages are no impairing vision and no freezing surfaces.
The diameter of this fire extinguisher is perfect and suitable for the flight bag. These rechargeable fire extinguishers have a shelf life of 6 years and are designed for aviation use only. Another halon fire extinguisher is 2.5 lb Halon 1211 Fire Extinguisher with Bracket. This kind of fire extinguisher is hard to beat for race classes that allow a portable extinguisher rather than an integrated system.
It features all-metal nozzles and includes an SCCA approved all-metal mounting bracket. This product is economical and suitable for keeping in the pits, garage, trailer, home, car or boat. The DOT-approved steel extinguisher bottle of this product is rechargeable. And the overall height of this fire extinguisher is approximately 15.3 inches.
One Halon fire extinguisher is Amerex HaLON 1211 fire Extingushers. This safety tool is usually known as “clean agent”. It penetrates difficult to see and hard to reach areas and leaves no residue. This kind of product contains a liquefied gas, pressurized with Nitrogen which discharged as a vapor causing no cold or static shock and no impairment of the operator vision.
This product is recommended for protection of sensitive, expensive and delicate computers, electrical equipment, film and tapes, aircraft and automotive engines, laboratory chemicals and equipment. For its ability to fight fire, this product become favorite as extinguisher for the electronic, computer, banking, telephone and aircraft industries.
Another halon fire extinguisher is H3R RT-A600 Halon Fire Extinguisher. This product has specification such as 0.3 lbs additional firepower. This product is actually safe and easy to use. One advantage of using this type of fire extinguisher is that the product is odorless, non staining and colorless.
This halon fire extinguisher is also lightweight and compact, non corrosive and also nonconductive. One thing that is important is that this fire extinguisher is no impairment of operator’s vision and non-rechargeable. Therefore this safety tool becomes preferable fire extinguisher.