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News Release from: Detector Electronics (UK) | Subject: Det-Tronics' X3001
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 November 2005
Flame detectors protect spray-painting
booths
Det-Tronics' X3001 triple infrared flame detectors are being used by BMW in Munich for fire protection on spray-painting booths.
Det-Tronics' X3001 triple infrared flame detectors are being used by BMW in Munich for fire protection on spray-painting booths The company says that it chose the detectors because they are resistant to triggering false alarms, and they are a commercially advantageous alternative to the previously used single infrared flame detectors
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 24 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Det-Tronics worked with the Munich-based company Climaplan on that firm's contract to design a fire protection, flame protection, fire panel and water extinguishing system for the spray booths.
BMW's engineer made the decision to use the X3301 detectors instead of the Det-Tronics U7652B UV/IR units already employed for BMW test engine cells.
In that very different application, the UV/IR devices were deployed in a two-detector dependent system, with the extinguishers only activated when two different flame detectors went into alarm.
If just one unit triggered, an audible alarm was activated and the fire brigade was notified.
Because no other source than fire can put the X3301 into alarm, BMW decided it was better for the spray booths.
By being able to use just one detector to activate an extinguishing system, this gave BMW the clear commercial benefit of cutting the number of detectors needed by 50%.
Thirty six X3301 detectors were specified and ordered by the company Multimon, which won the contract for the BMW site in Dingolfing.
All companies were so pleased with the functioning advantages of these detectors that two spray booths at BMW's site in Regensburg and one spray booth at its site in Leipzig have been equipped with this new generation of triple IR detectors.
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