I recently attended an event at a hotel near my house. In addition to a hotel, the building, which was completed in 2018, houses condos and an art gallery. The system is Notifier NFS2-3030 with at least two LCD-160 annunciators. The initiating devices are Notifier N-MPS-2A pull stations (some of which are mounted next to FT-300 firefighters’ phones, as shown below) and FSP-851 smoke detectors.
The signals are the most interesting part of the system, as they consist of a mix of SpectrAlert Advance and L-Series devices:
- The small reception room in which the event was held has a ceiling-mount Advance speaker and a ceiling-mount L-Series speaker/strobe, while the elevator lobby/hallway leading to this room has a wall-mount Advance speaker/strobe and a ceiling-mount L-Series speaker/strobe.
- The washroom near the reception room has a ceiling-mount Advance speaker and a wall-mount Advance strobe.
- The main lobby has ceiling-mount Advance speaker/strobes.
- According to photos I’ve seen online, the hotel suites use wall-mount Advance speaker/strobes, while the condo units use wall-mount L-Series speaker/strobes.
The signals are white, and the speaker/strobes and remote strobes feature bilingual lettering.
While the devices themselves aren’t particularly interesting, it’s peculiar to see a system that uses a mix of two different generations of devices in such a random manner. Systems featuring different generations of devices aren’t an uncommon sight, but this one is unusual as the mix is original to the building rather than being the result of devices that were replaced or added over time.