Fire extinguishing balls
A self-activating powder sphere that can be thrown into a fire or left mounted above a risk to discharge on its own.
- Typical use
- Meter rooms, shafts, remote assets
- Release
- Automatic on contact with flame
- Role
- Supplementary, not primary
Useful, and not a replacement for an extinguisher
A fire ball is a light sphere of dry powder with an igniter strip on its surface. In contact with flame it activates and disperses its powder over a small area, with a loud report. Thrown into a fire from a doorway, it works without the thrower approaching; mounted on a bracket over a meter bank or a small panel, it works with nobody there at all.
Its real advantages are that it needs no training, no pressure gauge, no servicing regime and no strength to use, and that it can be deployed from outside a space somebody should not be walking into. That makes it genuinely worth having on a meter room, an electrical shaft, a remote pump, an unmanned kiosk or a rural asset.
We are straightforward about the limits, because being sold one of these as a substitute for extinguishers is a common enough thing. It covers a small volume, it discharges once, it is not rated as a portable fire extinguisher, and a fire officer will not accept it in place of the units the building is required to have. Specify it as a supplement to a proper inventory and it earns its place; specify it instead of one and the building is not covered.
Where they earn their place
Deployments where a ball does something a portable extinguisher cannot. In every case it sits alongside the required extinguisher inventory, not instead of it.
Tell us about the project
Send the drawings or the BOQ and we will price it line by line. Most enquiries start with a site visit, because the site decides the system — not the catalogue.