Could be the Couch version going by the color combination (red body, white handle) & what little of the logo can be made out.
I was watching emergency! And i saw a bg-6 in the background
Yeah: people in this topic have mentioned the BG-6s in that show before (including one that actually gets used in one episode).
Pixar shows the dame devices in each movie. some 10 inch bell that looks to be an adaptabel with the sound of a smaller gonged bell (proven in toy story 3 and incredibles 2), 270-spos that pull incorrectly (proven in incredibles 2) and have little red beacons on top, and some old piezo smoke alarm that does pulse pattern (shown in incredibles 1).
Let me break that down for you:
The bell in Toy Story 3 is your average generic āgong above mechanismā one that you see all the time in fiction. Iām not sure if itās based off any actual real-life bell & if it is I donāt know which one.
I donāt recall there being any fire alarm devices in The Incredibles 2 (though Iāve only seen it once & donāt remember everything from it), but if there are such feel free to remind me (I do know of either an Edwards 1250/1251-series coded pull or a 270-series station in Toy Story 3 however).
Yes, that is the sound that the Parrsā smoke detector in The Incredibles makes, but thatās just a stock sound effect used very commonly in media, even though smoke detectors havenāt done 4/6 (as the pattern is actually called) for decades (Iām assuming they started being required to sound in temporal 3 from July 1st, 1996 onward, when NFPA 72 was amended to require that fire alarm notification appliances pulse in temporal 3, & thus itās logical to infer that this also applied to smoke detectors as well).
one of the characters (i wonāt say who for the sake of spoilers) pulled the fire alarm whilst escaping an apartment to form a crowd of evacuating people.
the movie was set in 1968.
Yeah Iām not sure I remember that, but Iāll take your word for it.
Most sources say 1962 instead, but good point (even if the smoke detector had yet to be invented by then, so thatās an anachronism on Pixarās part I guess, especially with a semi-modern 4/6 horn (though granted The Incredibles does have other technology that would be way out of place in the actual 60s, so I guess maybe itās not an anachronism after all if thatās just how the 1960s is in The Incredibles).
i might have misremembered on that one. i also noticed the detectors were tied into the sprinklers, which all went off at once.
Turns out that you didnāt misremember: just now I found a Youtube upload of the scene & confirmed that what you said is true: the movie does feature a 270-SPO & it is activated incorrectly/differently & does have a small light on it for some reason (though those last two things can be excused as Pixar doesnāt pay attention to every detail of such a thing like we do).
Yeah, another Hollywood misconception: when a buildingās fire alarm system is activated all the sprinklers go off at once (though this rarely happens with residential smoke detectors since very little media portrays houses with sprinklers).
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i will admit though, the concept of open-pipe sprinklers that activate in groups via smoke/heat detection, electronic valves, and a pump are probably better than what we have in real life.
Not really: that would just cause more water damage, compared to the way sprinklers actually operate where only the closest one(s) to the fire will activate, minimizing water damage while maximizing fire extinguishment. There are such sprinkler systems as the type you described, called ādeluge systemsā, but those are only used in places where there are dangerous substances that put the building at a high risk of a major fire, such as in a fireworks factory.
you have a good point, but i donāt mean the whole buildingās system. i mean specific areas such as rooms and partitioned areas of the building sectioned off by electronically controlled valves.
With some sort of red remote lights or beacons!
And then followed by a ācombination of whoop and Code-3ā - Three sharpy chirpy whoops and then a 1-second pause and looping. Sometimes accompanied by continuous bells.
Japanese fire alarm lights also work in a weird way. Theyāre always on in normal condition, and goes into a 0.5 second interval flash in fire condition. Strobes are installed under exit signs and they flash in fire condition.
I know there are supposedly clean agent fire suppression systems that work like that, but Iāve never heard of sprinkler systems that work in such a manner.
Anyway, back to the intended subject of this topicā¦
I was watching field of dreams and I saw what I think is a wheelock 7002t-24
I was watching Blank Check. In the bank I saw some sort of 7002t.
Has anyone noticed the BG-6 on the wall in Elliotās room by the door in the original E.T. movie at 0:34:02?
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I did, along with (if Iām remembering correctly) a large ābottom mechanismā (meaning the mechanism that rings it is below the gong rather than behind it) bell at the end of his bunkbed.
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Yeah Iāve always wondered why they decided to put those there.
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