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Nice haul! I just did an annual on a Notifier 500 this morning lol Did you salvage it yourself or have someone do it for you?

RJARRRPCGP wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:17 pm

Did the Edwards 6500 FACP fail miserably like or similarly as bad as one of the FACPs on one of twoplyboy's videos? (IIRC)

Similar. That 6500 wasn't able to reset after an alarm anymore, you would have to power the entire panel down to clear it.

Do you mean Dampers for like vents in hallways? If so, those are non electrical, they use fusible links to hold a screen or flaps, which close when the links melt.

Simplex 4051 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 5:09 pm

Was it just the panel you changed or the notification appliances also?

Just the panel, and the EOL resistors. The bells are Edwards 439-10AWCs, in this video:

I thought that when some devices fail on a system that they ALL have to be replaced or if the panel fails and needs to be replaced but not if its just upgraded. Since if the panel fails the new panel might not work with the old alarms. Or at least that is what it seems happens over here. I guess it...

The past couple days I've been replacing an old Edwards 6500 (from 1985), to a Kidde VS4 series panel. The first day we had to find EOLs, which there was 30 of them. The hardest one to find was on the rooftop, at the top of a garbage chute. Then the next day I stripped the entire 6500 out of its box...

Why not just install a mass campus PA system?

Although I am not a technician who works on systems for a living, Simplex walk test seems the most intuitive. I don't even think EST panels have built in walk test modes. Maybe a tech can confirm this. They do have walk test. The fire shield has it, the EST 2 and 3 can be programmed and scripted to...

If you need a single stroke bell take audio from one of my vids on Mircomfan, I've got tons of vids of old signals/single stroke bells.

They have new Edwards 439 10" bells, with EST Genesis strobes underneath each bell. That's pretty wasteful, considering they could've just installed horn/strobes, and used half the amount of wire. Is this in Canada by any chance? They seem to have a weird obsession with bells. We just don't have th...

If they are disconnected and are wired right, the fire panel should be showing a fair bit of troubles. Hi Edward, Our building uses MH-24W mini horns like the ones attached. Now Mircom makes a newer model, which can be paired with CNSIS-204 signal isolator module. Could you explain some details of ...

The last target remodel I saw was gutting one of the old ones they closed down in my city to something called the Rec Room. Its basically a video arcade for adults and has some really cool games. Its part of a mall, and they recently upgraded their system. They have new Edwards 439 10" bells, with E...

I don't like how it doesn't have a walktest feature, or you can't access much. Which sucks if youre working by yourself or one guy doing heats and the other smoke alarms, because you can't listen to the horns in units. You basically have to do another round listening to horns instead of doing it whi...

Hello! Haven't done a ton of annuals recently, been working on a piping job for a mag lock system. But here are a few vids: fHKOCBgOTjg -Just posted this in another topic, this is a monthly test of a Mircom FX-2000 speaker system. Speakers are set to the wrong coding (should be temporal). ec_HI8voCh...

What panel was that system controlled by? I have heard that coding once before, it was at an apartment building with mini horns. The panel was an Edwards ESA 2000.