I wanted to have a look at the engineering behind a heat actuated sprinkler head. It's interesting that the forces acting on the tiny glass tube are so well balanced that a slight expansion in the fluid causes it to shatter, a the same time being strong enough to withstand 20 (ish) pounds of force applied axially by a wide margin.✪► www.etsy.com/ca/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-them-all-cheeky-jokes ◄✪
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fire detection and suppression.
How do they get away with blasting glass rod fragments in the eyeballs of bystanding elementarian children?
Good video I wonder if we happen to have had the infrared camera on the glass thing what temperature they would’ve been showing although would be pretty hard to differentiate between the temperature of the glass in the flame I’m sure you would’ve work something out
So what's actually inside the glass tube? Is it a gas that expands when heated?
Enginerding? Lol
how many fps is that camera? My phone does 240
I've seen guys take a fire sprinkler system up to and sometimes over 100psi of air. They hold anywhere from 10-40psi of water. Pressure could be higher for water but it depends because every area is different.
Can I keep my dick in a sprinkler instead?
Tried the vice thing, didn`t like it :/
I took Architecture in College, and my Ontario Building Code teacher told us that these sprinkler heads take such a significant amount of heat to activate – to the extent that you would not survive being in a room hot enough. He basically said that sprinkler systems, in general, are designed to save buildings, not save lives. He also said that in most fire suppression systems (especially ones in commercial kitchens), there are chemicals in the system that get released with the water that is extremely harmful to humans if exposed.
I have dealt with numerous sprinkler systems and sprinkler head bursts (mostly forklifts breaking off the heads in warehouses). Regular testing and flushing (mandatory here in Ontario) helped, yet still the water was always rusty red brown from the black pipe and rust. Knowing your system, what triggered the flow switch and alarm, where the sprinkler risers are, and how to shut off the water with the supervised valves is the quickest way to stop water flow out of an accidentally broken sprinkler head. Of course, never do that is there is an actual fire burning!!
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Pure destilated Canadian wisdom
In case anyone is interested … the "RASCO" marking on that sprinkler head is an acronym for "Reliable Automatic Sprinker COmpany"