Good call on the sticky. I thought it was already, but it is now.
Now that you did so, I found another funny use of an alarm on a cartoon; the âPinky and the Brainâ episode âInherit the Wheeze.â The Brain has gotten addicted to smoking, and just as heâs attempting to control a powerful magnet as part of his plan to take over the world, the smoke from his cigarette trips a smoke detector with a small flashing red light and a continuous mid-pitched buzzer. Pinky asks whatâs happening, but the Brain says âItâs just the smoke detector!â as his plan is almost complete, but then the sprinkler in the same room activates (apparently due to the smoke detector, which is not how itâd work in real life), causing the Brainâs remote control to electrocute the Brain and short-circuit, and oh yes, extinguish his cigarette :lol:
I remember a few alarms from the TV show âPrison Breakâ.
You hear several Federal Vibratone 350 buzzers throughout season 1. They sound for one second as door opening signals, they sound for 5 seconds when yard time is over, and they sound a 1-second pulse cycle during a lockdown (the same as the pulse heard on the cartoon series âArthurâ). However, the lockdown alarm in the mess hall is a continuous 10-inch bell. In the breakout episode, Micheal Scofield messes with some wiring and sets off the fire alarm in the Psychiatric building, which sounds identical to the lockdown signals. The breakout siren is a Federal Model 2 siren.
The Model 2 is also used later on to signal a dam opening, along with a marchtime 350 buzzer.
Finally, when Officer Brad Bellick is trying to coax Theodore Bagwell (AKA T-bag) out of a hotel in Panama City, he pulls a Fire-Lite BG-12 strangely placed on the outside of the hotel. As soon as he pulls it, a 10-inch bell starts ringing, and the smoke detector in T-bagâs room sounds in the old-fashioned rapid beeping sound. About 10 seconds later, a voice EVAC message starts playing. It has a female message, first in Spanish, then in English.
Now, a few alarms from Doctor Who!! 
All of the call points used are KAC call points with the black glass piece, and black âFIREâ lettering instead of the usual âhouse on fireâ graphic. Whenever it is pressed, an 8-inch bell always sounds.
In the first Dalek episode, The Dalek destroys a KAC call point with a yellow cover piece and an orange break glass piece. No alarm sounds, but the sprinklers all activate. Also, note that this episode takes place in the USA!!
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Once, just a few weeks before Christmas, i saw a Christmas commercial about something ( i cant seem to remember what for ), but what i do recall seeing in the background was a newer model Wheelock MT. Also, in a Windows 8 commercial with the tablet and a laptop in one thing, in the background i saw a Simplex 2901-9833 with a Federal Signal SPK- VALS strobe. It was also seen in a different commercial on the same set.
I think you mean the VALS strobe. The SPK- part is the speaker that the VALS is often paired with.
Started watching 24 on Netflix. Itâs on the episode â9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.â
Jack is trying to beat a businessman to the ground floor. (the businessman is riding the elevator) so Jack runs down the stairs and finds an Edwards/EST 278 station behind a http://www.tomar.com/products/alarms/BGC.html Tomar NC-BGX break-glass cover (or any other version of it thatâs made by RSG). So he breaks the cover and pulls the station, triggering a 10" bell SFX. This causes the elevator to stop for 30 seconds (the businessman calls it a 30-second reset). Of course IRL Jack would lose since the elevator would probably go into Phase 1 recall, sending it directly to the ground floor.
Finally a fire alarm on Chicago Fire.
It was on last nightâs episode. (S2E15 - âKeep Your Mouth Shutâ) 51 responds to a high rise fire, and when they get to the lobby slow whoop can be heard. The buildingâs owner or whatever leads them to a bank of panels/annunciators (1 graphic and 2 Simplex 4100 ones with the LED/Switch banks, one with the Audio Operator Interface.) Theyâre enclosed in nice brass housings, and there are actually red and green LEDs active on the rightmost annunciator.
The owner/manager or whatever proceeds to open the rightmost panelâs door. Also the whoop wasnât a Simplex whoop, but this is TV. At least they used slow whoop and not a bell.
Actually, in most cases pull stations do not trigger elevator recall, in some areas the AHJ wants it but in most areas you have to wait for a smoke detector in front of an elevator landing to trigger recall.
Since âGleeâ takes place in a school (my brother watches this show all the time), it was inevitable thereâd be an episode with a fire alarm. The episode is âBritney/Brittany,â where during a performance of âToxicâ that begins getting out of hand, the cheerleading coach Ms. Sylvester activates an RSG dual-action pull station, setting off what sounds like 10-inch bells in Continuous, resulting in pandemonium in the gym!
Funny thing is, at one shot of students evacuating, there is some kind of fire alarm horn/strobe on the wall I canât make out (maybe itâs a Cerberus/Siemens horn/strobe) but it isnât flashing or anything! (Maybe if they had bell/strobes visible instead of horn/strobes, it would be more accurate.)
At least they made the fire alarm bells sound different from the school bells! THAT makes it seem more realistic (seems many schools would have often used 4 or 6-inch bells as the school bell and 10-inch bells as the fire alarm.)
A loud 10" bell sound is heard at 0:18. It sounds a lot like the bells we had in the gym at my K-8 school.
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In Devious Maids
I seen a System Sensor SpectrAlert Advence Remote Strobe
I also seen a Wheelock AS Horn/Stobe
and in a movie(I canât remember the name of the Name of the movie)
I seen a Black Autocall 4050 pull
In a 1980s movie
Fire-Lite BG6s and 2903-9001s mounted sideways
All nickelodeon shows
270-SPOs and bells
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Fire-Lite BG8s, Wheelock MTs, and Notifier panel
I was watching the Spider-Man 2 movie ( newer one ) with some friends once, and in one scene the villan lifts a Stopper 2 cover and pulls an EST 270-SPO to distract others and get to something ( not spoiling it for the people who havenât seen it yet ).
One I remembered - It was from around 2005, on IIRC Nat Geo, and was a documentary about the remodel (or was it full construction?) of CalTranâs IIRC SoCal office. It featured Wheelock ET70/90 Speaker Strobes (the ones with Wheelock on the bottom left and FIRE on the right) being tested. The panel (not shown) did Slow Whoop, and one strobe did a double flash. (Or it was another strobe and they were unsynchronized, the strobe was facing away from the camera and only the ambient flash could be seen.)
OK I cant really hold this in anymore but, has anyone noticed that in most TV shows and/or move sets an Edwards 270 SPO pull station has to pop up some where. I donât know if its me or the TV but man, its like it turned into the second most common alarm in the world! Please someone tell me Iâm not to only one noticing them on most TV shows out their.
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Me three!
It most likely because the actual film studios where TV shows are filmed is equipt with an Edwards system. Alternatively, if it is purposely placed, the 270-SPO could have been picked due to itâs unobtrusive and rather aesthetic design. Finally, since they are very common, or at least used to be, it could be a very common idea of what a fire alarm is to the general public, hence why it is used.
In the show Big Brother, there is a room in there called the âfire roomâ. In there, there are multiple fire bells mounted to the wall, which look like newer Edwards 439D bells.
On âWhatâs In The Barnâ season 1 episode 8, â12hrs & Runningâ, the cast is seeing if they can get 120 motorcycles started in 12 hours. At 39 bikes, they come to a 1934 Harley Davidson CB500, the 40th bike. They start it up, smoke billows from the engine & the fire alarm goes off! They are Spectralert Classics, yet sound like MTs in Code 3 horn! There was no strobe flash visible, nor did the alarm go off again.