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idontwannaknow wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:58 pm

And finally, White Gentex Commander 3s with blue strobes near a bunch of exit doors

They’re probably door alarms.

Thanks for the information. And another bonus, this is an audio clip of one of the alarms sounding during 9/11 which sounds very creepy and hopefully somebody on the forum could be able to identify it: Those are the alarms from 7WTC, which sounded throughout the building. That’s an older “Firecom 8...

sunlight99 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:03 pm

Copper Notification has a line of Hi-Fi speakers (300 to 8000 Hz), what's the appropriate use of those?

For places where a typical fire alarm speaker would be hard to understand (like rooms with a significant echo).

November 2009: I think was in math class, around 1:30 PM, when (cue this clip) the fire alarm suddenly went off. (it's a Simplex 4100 system with TrueAlert speaker/strobes.) Everyone went outside as usual and met up in the ballfields outside. Around 2 minutes later, the Fire Dept. showed up, which ...

Sorry, I don’t collect fire alarms, I’m just interested. Secondly, there are some areas (for instance, the enterence, the pool, and the gym) that still don’t have them, but visable backbox holes are seen. Then the new system is probably still being finished up, so the old system is (hopefully) stil...

I have no idea if they’re ridding the old Simplex fire alarms, as some have been replaced by wall-mounted SETs. Siemens smoke detectors and pull stations were also installed around, so this has to be tied in with the original FireFinder XLS. If that’s the case I might see speakers and speaker/strob...

MayerFire wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 11, 2018 3:23 am

There are no weatherproof versions of many NA lines, specially newer ones like the EST Genesis

The Genesis has a weatherproof version. It’s called the “WG4” series.

thegeet wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:05 pm

Why do the outdoor signals look like indoor signals except for the fact that they have a backbox? I could easily buy a regular signal as well as a weatherproof backbox to install.

There are internal design differences.

1 Washington Street - Boston, MA
Panel: EST3 (saw an annunciator, it had a Trouble condition.
Pull stations: SIGA-278's
Detectors: SIGA's
Signals: Genesis speaker/strobes

idontwannaknow wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:19 pm

Oh man, the fact that this is already posted makes me realize that summer went WAY too fast.

It was posted earlier than previous versions of this topic.

Patriot Place - Foxboro, MA Pull stations: RSG RMS-1T's rebranded by Siemens Detectors: FirePrints Signals: Wheelock ZNS horn/strobes, and ASWP's outside. Some stores have E70 speaker/strobes, and ET70WP's outside. All signals are the Siemens rebrands, obviously. As for Gillette Stadium, I wasn't a...

randomperson wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:39 am

idontwannaknow wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:29 am

Yea... have you guys ever come across a system with pulls or smokes but no NAs?

Yes, but it also had remote strobes.

To be clear, the systems had remote strobes in areas covered by the paging system. Areas not covered by the paging system had speaker/strobes.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lydFOJB84wI (skip to 4:56)
Nothing is seen, but what is heard is a Honeywell FS90 system! (and also the new Notifier/Honeywell system, since the system was in the process of being upgraded at that time.)

idontwannaknow wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:29 am

Yea... have you guys ever come across a system with pulls or smokes but no NAs?

Yes, but it also had remote strobes.

thegeet wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 15, 2018 9:26 pm

The -9817 has "Simplex" in a font: either, IIRC, Eras ITC, Calibri, or Segoe UI.

I’m pretty sure the font is Frutiger.