Did you know that fire alarms are not a part of any fire suppression system? They have a completely different mechanism and work in a different manner. Their purpose is to only raise an alarm when they sense danger. There are sensors fitted inside which are programmed to ring the alarm bell at once when they sense heat levels going beyond the normal limit. Even if they sense smoke which is more than normal, the alarm bell will be rung. Hence they are an alarm triggering devices without working on the source that caused them to be activated.

While on the other hand a fire suppression system is the one that really attacks the source of disturbance. But it cannot sense danger and is in need of the fire alarm system. The fire alarm system is the sense and brain of the fire suppression system. It alerts it and directs it to work upon which it starts spraying the agent that it holds to fight fire with. The FM 200 fire suppression system is a system to put out flames automatically using the gas FM 200 as the fire fighting agent. Using this gas as the main agent, the system would spray it to wherever it gets the signal of causing the damage.

FM 200 is a gas that has three characteristics that make it one of the best fire suppression agents to be used even in the most sensitive places. These characteristics are

These three characteristics have managed to get it approved from all the fire safety regulation authorities on the planet. As it is colorless, it is good to be used in places such as museums where things can lose originality if their colors are damaged. Also when the fire fighting team arrives and the gas is still being released, it does not obscure vision and allows free movement.

Being odorless allows it to be used in many places even in the basement. It does not create any foul odor, in fact any kind of odor that would become a problem for humans to sniff upon. And being non toxic, it is perfectly safe to be used in places where there are humans around. Even if it falls on someone, it would cause him no harm and there won’t be any danger to human safety simply because he inhaled FM 200. Being gas it is obviously filled and transported in single skinned containers and should be measured with the ultrasonic liquid level indicator.