Seeing Is Believing

SG50-F-IR3-H2 (V) flame detectors provide industry leading reliability and detection speed for hydrogen fires. The IR3-H2 provides protection while also logging alarm events.

The IR3-H2-V model incorporates an HD video which records from one minute before a fire even to up to three minutes after. It also allows remote operators a chance to quickly confirm a fire condition. In addition, the IR3-H2-V offers a near-infrared video feed as standard (color RGB is optional).

Why near-infrared? 

Hydrogen fires can be extremely difficult to see. Near-infrared gives anyone viewing the video a chance to quickly determine the fire source that activated the alarm condition.

Hydrogen and Other Clean Burning Fuels can be Practically Invisible

Unlike hydrocarbon fires from fuels such as gasoline or diesel which are easily visible to the human eye, clean burning fuels like hydrogen and alcohol can be very difficult to see.

In fact, in daylight hydrogen is almost invisible to the human eye.

This is also true of hydrogen fires shown through regular color (RGB) video – while the Spyglass flame detector will detect the fire, it can’t be seen on standard video.

For this reason the default video option for the SG50-F-IR3-H2-V is near-infrared video. In near-infrared the clean burning fuel fires are clearly visible to the human eye.