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T O P I C S Home What Does the New Millennium Safety Inflator Look Like? How Does the New Millennium Safety Inflator Work? Comparison Test Fact vs. Fiction How Easy is it to Rearm A Marketing Disaster Contact & Ordering Information		COMPARISON TEST: GREEN TAB VS. THE New Millennium Millennium Safety InflatorTM THE GREEN TAB APPROACH Until now the industry's best approach to signal whether a full or empty CO2 cylinder is screwed into an inflator has been to MANUALLY insert a small green plastic tab into the side of the inflator. This green tab is a signal to the user that a charged CO2 cylinder has been screwed into the inflator. There's a pin sticking out from the side of the green tab that's inserted into a small hole in the inflator; this pin also passes through another small hole in the inflator arm so that when the inflator arm is jerked sharply downward, discharging the CO2 cylinder and inflating, e.g., a life vest, the arm snaps the pin that holds the green tab in place, and the green tab then falls away, telling the user that he or she must again insert a fully charged CO2 cylinder--and another green tab--into the inflator. Common sense tells us that the green tab approach is very unreliable for the simple reason that it's completely dependent on human behavior and-unlike the New Millennium Safety InflatorTM--there's no automatic mechanical link between the green tab and a charged CO2 cylinder actually being in the inflator (see diagram). COMPARISON TEST: GREEN TAB VS. THE New Millennium Millennium Safety InflatorTM Can there be an armed GREEN TAB signal on an inflator that still has an EMPTY CO2 cylinder in it? GREEN TAB: YES. New Millennium Safety InflatorTM: NO (automatically signals RED)   Can there be an armed GREEN TAB signal on an inflator that has a PARTIALLY INSERTED CO2 CYLINDER in it? GREEN TAB: YES. New Millennium Safety InflatorTM: NO (automatically signals RED)   Can there be an armed GREEN TAB signal on the inflator if the EMPTY CO2 CYLINDER IS ACCIDENTALLY REINSERTED back into the inflator? GREEN TAB: YES. New Millennium Safety InflatorTM: NO (automatically signals RED)   Can there be an armed GREEN TAB signal on an inflator if there is NO CO2 CYLINDER in the inflator? GREEN TAB: YES. New Millennium Safety InflatorTM: NO (automatically signals RED)
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