So I recently got this dinosaur of a panel off ebay and… it’s hefty. Its labeled as a Federal Signal Powertone, but it also has labeling of it being an Applied American Technologies Inc EVAC 2101. It came in 2 parts, the main panel and a smaller “RMT” booster panel (which ive seen a couple rebrands of). It came with a lot of cards knocked loose but luckily no obvious damage. After a couple of hours of tinkering with it, I had it activated and whooping. I was able to get a few small manuals off a guy on Reddit, which has helped me a lot - but there’s still lots of gaps in my knowledge about this panel. I’ll keep posting about it as I learn more, and will post videos soon. I’m just amazed it actually works at all.
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Awesome acquistion! Funnily enough I recently discovered the once-existence of AAT, Inc. myself. How many tones does it have? (& messages if it came with any)
I’m not too sure yet. It does a looping whoop when its alarm and if you hit the page function when the system isn’t in alarm, it plays a steady tone. Ive heard a voice message or 2 come from the message maker modules themselves when I was fiddling with things, but I couldn’t do it again. Unfortunely those message modules have a bunch o switches and buttons on them, and the documentation I have doesn’t explain these in depth.
Oh okay. Might this PDF help with that?: Wayback Machine (archive.org)
That is quite helpful, thank you! I didnt even think to try and find out what AATI’s old website was and go to the ardhive. I’ll see what I can do later. As it stands, the panel only does the whoop on repeat when it’s in alarm, so it’d be cool to see if I can change that.
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Sure thing!
Yep: when in doubt turn to the Internet Archive! (& by extension the Wayback Machine)
Yeah!
There was another PDF I was going to include, but the Forums wouldn’t “accept” the link properly due to there being a parenthesis in it (you should be able to find it by searching “mm” on the Wayback Machine’s archive of appliedamericantech.com though).
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I think @wiley209 mentioned, many years ago, a building that had this voice panel. Now we’ll finally get to see one in action!
Maybe: not sure I remember seeing such myself though.
Yeah!
I quickly uploaded a video showing it’s most basic whooping function, which is all it does at the moment when I alarm it. More videos soon-ish.
Those random skips are odd. It reminds me of the whoop on Audiosone systems (the EVAC 2101’s is much lower-pitched though):
Audiosone / Silent Knight voice evacuation fire alarm: all eight tones (youtube.com)
What’s the Manu date on it
Did you manage to make the system play the messages again?
Looks like the smaller panel is a Sigcom VoiceCom Panel! it has a similar counterpart in black thats rebranded by siemens.
It does look remarkably similar to the Cerberus Pyrotronics VoiceCom, but I don’t believe it’s the same thing (I believe Cerberus is the original maker of it as well: heck I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a SigCom-branded VoiceCom).
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Yeah it isn’t, you can tell from the amount of grilles on the door.
Oh sorry, i got confused, it looked the same to me
An original 70s Autocall voice panel would be rarer than this.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that, but so what? Anything like this voice panel is valuable to save regardless of things like rarity or age I’d say.
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Exactly! And even if something isn’t rare, it may eventually become rare. But this is something rare on a whole different level.