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Testing is a important part of
providing people with "safe haven" in the event of severe weather, you do not
have to be tested to sell shelters, it is a choice we all chose to do to show
our customers that our products are safe under certain conditions. Allot of
manufacturers out there have also had their products tested at the same place
and are also compliant to the code we all feel necessary to follow. All of our
products were retested within 1 year ago, and we will continue to invest in
testing our units when we have new products or make changes to current projects.
Some manufacturers have test papers from 10 years ago and have made changes
without retesting. We feel that this is a priority and have a great relationship
with the testing facility. Same facility that was fascinated with our locking
system on our fiberglass units that our engineers designed to be outside of the
shelter instead of above your head inside the shelter, which if the door was
heavily impacted in a competitors shelter, that locking system could break free
and be shot at up to 60 mph to the people taking safe haven inside the unit. So
starting from step one that was our first goal, to make it safer in the inside.
We didn't settle for the 2-3-4 point locking systems that others offer. Ours is
state of the art with more then twice the locking points, and a custom made
thick steel piano hinge holding the door in place. Just that alone shows that
SWP cares about you and your loved ones inside one of our shelters. We thought
ahead on door impacts and what happens when the door is hit by debris from a
overhead tornado. No manufacturers out there has our patented locking system.
Our steel line of shelters has the
same concept, all our steel doors have been heavily tested.
Picture Below is 125 MPH debris shot to the lid only,
we want to make it clear we only had the lid take the 125MPH hit to see if it
would penetrate, The 67 mph debris shot requirement was a cakewalk for our lid.
Video Below is the 67MPH debris shot(250mph
wind) required by FEMA 320 code
Video Below is the 125MPH shot that we wanted to see if it would penetrate the
lid, this does not add anything special to our ratings of FEMA 320
Compliance, we opted to do so for our own sakes to see if it would Penetrate the
door. We are not by any means claiming anything higher then the 320 Testing,
just a fact that 37MPH faster then the test we passed, it did not penetrate our
door, just messed up the paint!
Large Piano hinge with stainless steel bolts on one side
Other side of lid has several solid steel blades in C-Channel with a
one handle pull, none of our locking systems are inside the shelter, just the
pull lever, not having any part of it in the shelter is safer because there's
nothing to blow off into the people inside!
The Fujita scale of tornado violence. An F-5 tornado makes
the strongest winds on Earth; Doppler radar clocked one tornado at 318 mph. (In
the Fujita scale, wind speed is not measured directly but rather estimated from
the amount of damage. Tornado width is estimated by the path of destruction --
which can be up to one mile wide).
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