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- Thu Jan 17, 2019 9:18 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: Today's Job
- Replies: 198
- Views: 30583
Re: Today's Job
I wanted to post this on here because this was a really cool system I worked on today! I am not exactly sure what the model on this panel is, But I believe this is a Mirtone 7900 series fire panel, with a Mirtone voice evacuation panel. This is basically the Mirtone version of an Edwards 6500 panel,...
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:33 pm
- Forum: User Created Fire Alarm Media
- Topic: Smoke alarms go off in my condo complex
- Replies: 5
- Views: 724
Re: Smoke alarms go off in my condo complex
I've never seen a system with just smokes and pulls. Never knew they existed. How do the pulls trip the smoke alarms? BRK makes a interconnect module, so you can connect devices like pull stations or heat detectors up: https://www.aartech.ca/psm1/brk-interconnect-module-for-pull-stations-or-heat-de...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:24 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm Help
- Topic: EST/Kidde Device Help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 145
Re: EST/Kidde Device Help
It should be compatible, Kidde is owned by EST/Chubb Edwards.Simplesystems23 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:02 pmWill EST SIGA 278's work on a Kid FX-64 fire alarm control panel? Or do they need to specifically be Kidde devices to work with the panel?
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: User Created Fire Alarm Media
- Topic: Edwardsfan Bell Tests
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2142
Re: Edwardsfan Bell Tests
Some more videos! fWUcRkP6ZyI -Doing a bell test in a 3 story walk up. They had a water leak in a room we had our booster panel in, so we were making sure all the horns worked. yzuVVerdTmE -Just doing an annual on a Mircom FX-2000, I was at the panel ringing the horns while my partner was checking o...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: User Created Fire Alarm Media
- Topic: Smoke alarms go off in my condo complex
- Replies: 5
- Views: 724
Re: Smoke alarms go off in my condo complex
So your condo doesn't have actual alarms in it and just smoke alarms? Probably a smoke alarm/pull station system. I just serviced one in a renovated walkup building, they literally have combo smoke/strobe alarms everywhere, which are all interconnected together. Plus they had 2 pull stations on eac...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: Fire Alarm Panel/Bells
- Replies: 18
- Views: 673
Re: Fire Alarm Panel/Bells
I'm guessing that must be in Canada since over here I don't really see houses with any signals in them. Yeah, but its mostly for houses that are used for assistant living/troubled youth. My favourite one is a system we service in a retirement/nursing home, which was an old mansion at one point. The...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:30 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: fire alarm at a Walmart playing music.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 548
Re: fire alarm at a Walmart playing music.
Personally, I think that we should have that same code and we shouldn't be able to play music through the speakers. I agree, the US is usually more advanced too and ahead of us when it comes to fire alarms and codes. I never understood why they allow this one, I think we don't do it because it woul...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:09 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm Help
- Topic: Simplex 4002 - No 24vdc
- Replies: 2
- Views: 176
Re: Simplex 4002 - No 24vdc
Sounds like the motherboard may be fried. I have an EST 6601 that was doing the same thing, and it was determined it had a faulty motherboard problem, we ended up replanting the panel.
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:48 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: What are some things that the General Public misconceives about Fire Alarms that drive you crazy?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1268
Re: What are some things that the General Public misconceives about Fire Alarms that drive you crazy?
Then maybe the pull stations did have tamper dye on them but I remember the one outside the kindergarten classrooms was the only one that looked like it was leaking and that was the only one I remember. Of course, by the time I started to take more notice of fire alarms, we had a new principal so m...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:29 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: fire alarm at a Walmart playing music.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 548
Re: fire alarm at a Walmart playing music.
We aren't allowed to play music through fire alarm speakers in Canada by code, so all Walmarts here have separate PA & Fire Alarm systems.
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:27 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: Fire Alarm Panel/Bells
- Replies: 18
- Views: 673
Re: Fire Alarm Panel/Bells
That is super cool! I do a fair bit of imspections on systems like this. They are all in these old houses that were built in the early 1900s. They all have EST 1 zone fireshields in them, but I assume the original panels were really old. Most have their original signals, the one house had 1 Edwards ...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:11 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: My Middle school’s old fire alarm system
- Replies: 2
- Views: 303
Re: My Middle school’s old fire alarm system
The middle school I attended was built in 1980 with an old Edwards system. The old system consisted of Edwards 270-spo pull sustains and Edwards 439d-6awc bells installed in hallways. The system was replaced in 2005, so this info may not be correct, however I have confirmed that the pulls were 270-...
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 10:44 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: Abandoned Golf Club House FA system salvage update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 435
Re: Abandoned Golf Club House FA system salvage update
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?

- Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:13 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: Today's Job
- Replies: 198
- Views: 30583
Re: Today's Job
Similar. That 6500 wasn't able to reset after an alarm anymore, you would have to power the entire panel down to clear it.RJARRRPCGP wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:17 pmDid the Edwards 6500 FACP fail miserably like or similarly as bad as one of the FACPs on one of twoplyboy's videos? (IIRC)
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: Fire Alarm General Discussion
- Topic: Smoke Dampers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 298
Re: Smoke Dampers
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.