Is anyone able to help me out? I have a few places in mind that have 90’s EST systems. I don’t know what the panels are as I don’t have access to them. I’d really like to at least have a decent guess as to what they are. I know pretty much the entire history of Simplex and Siemens/Cerberus Pyrotronics panels as they have been well documented in things like this, but I know almost nothing about EST.
If anyone knows anything, I would greatly appreciate anything you know about the EST panel lineup in the 90’s.
According to my research, EST was selling at least 4 panels in the 1990s: the IRC-3 (1989-2006), the EST1 (1995-2002), the EST2 (1995-2012), & the EST3 (1996-2023).
The annunciator at the place I’m wondering about the most has buttons like the ones on the one pictured below, but it has no screen and is a conventional LED annunciator.
I don’t know about the one you’re describing specifically, but the one in the photo is an EST 2-CMDN, which is an annunciator for the IRC-3, so it might be that.
Is it perhaps a SAN annunciator, like the one shown below? I took this photo at a cinema that opened in 1995. The buttons are quite different, but the LED indicators are of the same style. I can’t think of any EST annunciators that aren’t equipped with an LCD and have buttons similar to those used on the SMDN/CMDN; it’s quite possible, however, that I’m not aware of such a product, as EST had quite the lineup in the 1980s and 1990s.
Now that I think about it, I think it is almost exactly like the one you showed. Do you know of the LSS4 was sold in the US of if it was a Canadian specific product? If it was sold in the US, I think that the system near me probably uses one of those panels as it is a small conventional system from the mid-90’s with only a couple of zones. The signals are 792 horn/strobes and their remote strobe counterparts.
Also, did the annunciators for the LSS4 have a security LED? Next time I go there, that would be a good thing to check.
Thanks so much for the help (you and @TheCarson116 )! I really don’t know much about EST/ Edwards’ past lineups and products, as they were mostly only common in my area in the 80’s and 90’s so most of the panels have been replaced by now.
It’s also cool to see more inside that annunciator, as the one near me has more tinted glass so it is hard to see in. I’ve also never seen any more than the green power LED illuminated.
The LSS4 was indeed sold in the States. In fact, I don’t know if it was sold in Canada; I’ve never seen one here or even heard of an installation in Canada that uses one of these panels. It seems that the 6616/6632 and ESA2000 filled the LSS4’s slot on the Canadian market at that time.
The RSA4 looks almost identical to the SAN, but it doesn’t have a security LED. Instead, it has an indicator labelled “auto evacuation cancel”. This listing shows an RSA4.
Regarding the window, the datasheet for the SAN mentions that the cabinets feature a bronze window. It sounds like the one you saw has this type of window. I wonder if this feature was added later, given that the one in my photo doesn’t have a tinted window.
