What’s the weirdest place you’ve ever seen a fire panel?
I was once in a 20 story office building and I saw that an EST panel was flush-mounted into the security desk facing up.
A few days ago, I came across a Simplex 4010 mounted directly above a couch in a hotel.
i saw a panel in a bathroom close to a stall above a urinal. it was an ms9200udls
I once saw a Notifier panel in a tiny closet that opened to the outside. You could see the panel through the door’s glass.
I don’t know the exact model number, since the place has been destroyed. :twisted:
I saw a fire lite panel that was located at the entrance to a restroom, I dont remember the model number,
but I know it was voice evac because the building had SpectrAlert classic speaker/strobes.
I saw a Mircom FA-1000 panel located in a random back hallway of the hotel, and an Edwards 6500 installed in a 2nd floor dining room in another hotel.
If this one is actually true, it wins so far!
Honestly, I can’t remember any panels being in an out of normal spot. I know a long time ago when I was touring colleges and in the dorm I was touring the panel (Cerberus Pyrotronics MXL) and all of it’s components (power supplies, NAC extensions, etc.) was out in the hallway of the lowest level. It wasn’t near a main exit or anything and it was almost like a basement. It is kind of odd that it wasn’t in an electrical/mechanical room somewhere though.
I’ve never actually seen this particular installation myself (website and pictures obviously aren’t mine), but a panel mounted above a suspended ceiling is definitely the most baffling location I’ve heard of for such a device.
At my school, they had an EST3 annunciator mounted next to an Integrity, they were both in the incorrect spot.
Outside.
Sometimes this can happen if a room gets repurposed. At the elementary school not too far from my house, they have a Simplex 4207 fire alarm panel in a small copier/teacher prep room.
Reason being, that room used to be the associate principal’s office when the school was renovated in 1978 (originally built in 1896 and 1918).
Right outside the room is the system annunciator (one of those old rectangular Simplex annunciators with the lettered “block” zone indicators from the 1970s), which currently is in a totally random location. There used to be a set of doors right near it leading to outside, as that used to be the main entrance area. This explains why the annunciator is there.
Oh wow, this definitely wins! That is astonishing odd. I wonder would it would be like during a false alarm?
These are some very interesting spots!
Pardon my naivety, but why in the hell would one wanna put a panel in a BATHROOM?
How about in a ceiling, 12 feet above the ground? I’m more perplexed by that.
How about mounted on a VENDING MACHINE? It was a Fire Lite Ms5ud on a Coke machine, the vending machine was turned off.
Was the machine attached to the wall somehow or just free-standing? I’d like to see a pic if you can get one.
It had a bunch of conduit coming out of the top and I haven’t been there in a while so I will see what I can do.