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[alarm man]

Alarm man, see were your coming from, with the amount of steam or water when it condistates, but would wonder how much a vesda or airsense could function over a long period in such evoroments, and to what extent. The old fixed beams being a pain in the rear have now been sorted with programmable beams such as Fire beam made by my old company Lemtronics. In areas of dust or high combustion would certainly go for the fast response of vesda.

id compare vesda to a fine car,needs looking after and regular tuning for the filter and airflow,if looked after never false alarms and provides the best protection around..

 

[tazz]

Certainly would not disagree with that, air sampling has always showed a faster response time, always found it the best solution for closed cieling voids.
Just checked with vesda, Airsensense, recommended use of water traps, evapourators in high humidity so your answer is correct, vesda is suitable if well mentanained

 

[Guitarist]

Vesda, or airsense can be a problem in this situation, water evapourators can help, but the filters dont really like water.
Beams are the only answer in hostile situations.
As to public forums, I would like to think i joined to help others

I think most of us signed up for that reason. There are times though, especially on something of this scale and importance, where a forum is really not the answer imo.