Fire Alarms in Buildings (2.0)

[futurealarms121]

@kcin556

@futurealarms121

Final thoughts: I don’t understand why they have horns mounted above strobes, rather than just having strobes. If their is a reason why this is done, i’m not familiar with it. It’s not the first time I’ve ever seen that either. Once i went to some random restaurant in NYC, they had a Silent Knight system with System Sensor SpectrAlert Advance strobes mounted below SpectrAlert Advance horns. Also, I’ve never seen TrueAlert strobes with a fake grille before, all the TrueAlert strobes I’ve seen just have smooth plastic above the strobe. Also, the horns may be chimes, or multi-tone sounders, i’m not sure, never heard them sound before.

The grille looks weird because those are actually “QuickAlert” signals, which was the predecessor to the TrueAlert line. Notice how the TrueAlert label is missing on the upper left hand corner. In all honesty, I’m not sure if they were actually called “QuickAlert” or if that was something that the fire alarm community made up.

The weird horn/strobe setup is possibly because it is a two-stage setup. Especially considering it is a nursing home, you don’t want the horns activating and startling the patients if there is no true emergency.

It’s possible that they are chimes, but to my knowledge Simplex has never made a multi-tone True/QuickAlert appliance. They currently use Wheelock MT series horns manufactured specifically for Simplex when that need arises.

         I did indeed notice the lack of the TrueAlert logo on the notification appliances. I thought that the older model TrueAlerts didn't have the logo on them. Guess i was correct. I never heard of the "QuickAlert" name before though. And indeed, a search on Google led to nothing on them. Guessing Simplex used them for a short time before the TrueAlert design was finalized. And the two-stage explanation of the horn + strobe setup would make sense. I never thought of that before, because TrueAlerts can just do audible/selective silence, or whatever Simplex calls it. But i don't know about the older model TrueAlerts/QuickAlerts. Thanks for your input though! Greatly appreciated. 

           And TrueAlerts do come in chime and multi-tone models:
                            
                                         TrueAlert chime/strobe:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woZGwP-urCI

                                         TrueAlert multi-tone sounder:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xov_7bnfks