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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
NOVEMBER 2015
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division for Lincoln SA and is supported by
Darren Bustin. Together they are involved
with every fire system installation for the
company. David Coates and William van
Rooyen spoke of Lincoln SA, highlighting
the wide coverage their service teams
provide to an existing customer base and
the range of high quality products they as-
sociate with to provide a complete service
solution.
Steven Phillips, as the Muster manufactur-
ing representative, discussed the technical
features and benefits of the product having
years of fire suppression experience, with
many other products available for mobile
equipment throughout the world.
Many positive features are incorporated in
the system to ensure functionality in the
harshest of operating environments, pre-
vent unnecessary machine downtime, save
installation personnel time when assembling
the system and take less time to maintain
the working system once in operation, with
highly informative tools all equating to con-
siderable savings to any equipment owner.
The capability of a single nozzle as part of
a complete system was demonstrated. This
lone nozzle extinguished an intense fuel tray
fire, following a significant pre-burn period
to elevate heat and size of the fire, before
knocking it out in a matter of seconds. Next
was the rolling body demonstration. A series
of fuel trays were positioned inside the body
of a South African taxi with a complete sys-
tem installed.
Again, a significant pre-burn period was al-
lowed to elevate the heat and size of the fire
before manual activation of the system took
place.
Finally the same rolling body demonstration
took place with the addition of MusterWire
automatic fire detection. The purpose of this
scenario was to show how quickly the Mus-
terII System would detect a fire and activate
to extinguish long before the fire became too
intense.
The fire was detected as it was just begin-
ning to build in heat and the system knocked
it straight out.
The Lincoln SA team excelled in their efforts
to promote the Muster II Fire Suppression
System in South Africa and there is a wid-
er network of Muster distribution partners
around the world that can provide the same
high level of assistance and quality product.
The Muster II Fire Suppression System is
tailor made to suit every machine, in any op-
eration, in any environment.
This is achieved through quantitative risk
assessment to determine what fire risks are
present, taking into consideration where,
how and what environment the machine is
working in.
From here, the extinguishing application
rates are determined from the surface calcu-
lation of each fire risk area to determine the
size of extinguishing agent cylinder/s needed
for effective protection.
Ultimately, the end user is presented with a
system designed specifically to protect per-
sonnel and valuable equipment.
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