Why is the use of cell phones discouraged around gas pumps?
04-08-2009, 10:45 AM
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Why is the use of cell phones discouraged around gas pumps? Why is the use of cell phones discouraged around gas pumps?
This is another one of those puzzlers for me. I’ve noticed recently that the number of posted signs prohibiting cell phone usage around gas pumps has gone down. Often times they seem to disappear when the pumps are upgraded or replaced. So what’s the deal? Well, let’s look at what we know: Gasoline really only burns in its gaseous state, not in the liquid form. This is why you may have heard someone say that you could extinguish a cigarette in a bucket of gasoline. DON’T try this. For a while the liquid gasoline will most definitely extinguish the cigarette and the path the cigarette has to take to get to the liquid will have it move through gasoline vapor mixed with oxygen - a deadly combination. In order or gasoline vapor to ignite, it also needs oxygen and a heat source. The gasoline vapor / air mix must be in the range of 1.4 percent to 7.6 percent...
Read more: http://www.designnews.com/blog/The_W...gas_pumps_.php
This is another one of those puzzlers for me. I’ve noticed recently that the number of posted signs prohibiting cell phone usage around gas pumps has gone down. Often times they seem to disappear when the pumps are upgraded or replaced. So what’s the deal? Well, let’s look at what we know: Gasoline really only burns in its gaseous state, not in the liquid form. This is why you may have heard someone say that you could extinguish a cigarette in a bucket of gasoline. DON’T try this. For a while the liquid gasoline will most definitely extinguish the cigarette and the path the cigarette has to take to get to the liquid will have it move through gasoline vapor mixed with oxygen - a deadly combination. In order or gasoline vapor to ignite, it also needs oxygen and a heat source. The gasoline vapor / air mix must be in the range of 1.4 percent to 7.6 percent...
Read more: http://www.designnews.com/blog/The_W...gas_pumps_.php
04-09-2009, 08:29 AM
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04-09-2009, 09:18 AM
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Yeah, if I remember correctly nothing happened when they tested it......
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04-10-2009, 12:07 AM
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Research has been done, theres no threat. Funny how people still put up the signs. And what does it mean anyway? Oooo! scary! Theres a sign! Almost everytime i go to pump gas there are people smoking. Theres a sign for that too, and for a much more important reason. 6 watts are needed, our phones produce under 1. One little spark however, and there goes the neigborhood! And people still smoke there.
Not to mention leave their engines running and it HAS been proven that you can touch your car and cinsuct enough static electricity to ignite the gas, its happened plenty.
So id say theyre just being safe rather than sorry.
Not to mention leave their engines running and it HAS been proven that you can touch your car and cinsuct enough static electricity to ignite the gas, its happened plenty.
So id say theyre just being safe rather than sorry.
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You have a greater danger of going in and out of your car and touching the fueling nozzle...static is the #1 danger in my career field...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdcPeW1XwKs
Don't fill jerry cans in the back of your truck either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAaj3DkA-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdcPeW1XwKs
Don't fill jerry cans in the back of your truck either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgAaj3DkA-w
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05-11-2009, 08:56 PM
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Unless you're fueling up in a tool shed while playing with a lighter you have nothing to worry about.
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It's just like you can't use your phone in a plane. They've done tests before an no phones out there caused any problems witht he plane equipment.
But they don't know what phones will come out next month so instead of doing more tests every year they side on the safe side and just say 'no phones, plain and simple' the same for the gas pumps.
But they don't know what phones will come out next month so instead of doing more tests every year they side on the safe side and just say 'no phones, plain and simple' the same for the gas pumps.