My Great grandmother’s Assisted living facility has a Wheelock Exceder in the living room and one in each bedroom. I can’t imagine waking up to one of those.
My school had a fire drill today, so I figured i’d share what fire alarms the school has.
My school has a Notifier system. The notification appliances consist of Wheelock RS, NS and MTs, and a Gentex GHX-90. The pull stations are all BG-10s. I was only able to get a picture of the fire alarm panel as the school has now changed their phone policy.
What are the smokes and heats
Wow. I have never seen a bg-10 with a key switch on top
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The smoke detectors are System Sensor 2400’s. I don’t think my school has heat detectors though.
I should’ve mentioned that my school has BG-12 pull stations as well.
Ok, cool. I thought that the detectors would be sdx-551,s
A coopers hawk was recently built by me, and has a brand new Autocall system! Pull stations and smoke detectors are rebranded 4099 pulls & truealarms. i think this might be the first report of those TrueAlertES ceiling horn/strobes that look like the speaker/strobes. idk if there’s a way to tell between the two but yeah. everythings branded as autocall
theres a new gen ceiling strobe when you walk in btw
La hacienda ranch Mexican restaurant in colleyville tx
NA’s gentex SPKE4-15/75WR’s
Pull stations: fire-lite BG-10’s and one BG-12
Smoke detectors: unknown
FACP: unknown
Annuciator: unknown
Boomerjacks bar and grill in lake worth Tx
NA’s: system sensor pc2wl’s & scwl’s
Pull stations: unknown
Smoke detectors: unknown
Annuciator: silent knight 5860
FACP: unknown
My local Home Depot
Annunciator: silent knight RA-1000
Pull stations: silent knight SD500-ps
NA’s : gentex GCC24CR’s
Texas Roadhouse northlake TX
Annunciator: silent knight 5860
Pull stations: fire-lite bg-12’s
NA’s: system sensor spscrl’s
Plymouth High School (Canton Township) - Located within the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, this building opened in 2002 with the second incarnation of the Plymouth High School name; the first was what is now the Plymouth Arts & Recreation Complex, a location I previously documented on the forums. Normally, I would not document an alarm system this modern, but due to an ongoing addition to the southeast, plus some interesting discoveries I made outside, I feel it is worthy to make this entry.
Annunciators/panel:
<One National Time 902-series addressable panel at the main entrance.
<Right next to the panel is an older Ademco/Honeywell annunciator–possibly tied into the panel and/or the school’s security system.
Detectors:
<National Time Digicomm photoelectric smoke detectors throughout the building; at least one of them does not have a base while the others do.
<Gentex 9000-series photoelectric smoke detectors above elevator doors.
<Interestingly, at least one elevator door area has an older System Sensor 1251B plug-in ionization detector, possibly installed as a replacement.
Pull stations:
<National Time 541-series t-bars behind semi-flush protective covers throughout the building, all of which are originally made by Sigcom.
Notification appliances:
<National Time C2-series horn/strobes and strobes throughout the building.
<Outside, this school has a series of National Time P806(?) bells encased in weatherproof covers; the cover is the same design that my National Time P810 bell has! This would suggest that the school originally used vibrating bells for class change; there are metal plates near some of the NAs inside, which would suggest there may have been vibrating bells there as well (most likely National Time 306-6 models), but I did not see any during my visit. The school has a public address system outside, too, so it is likely the bells no longer function.
Alright so my school has ALOT of these
And its a school in Texas
Sweet! I think the panel might be 5208xl and the annunciator is a 5860r
heres a list of devices:
Panel: maybe a 5208 xl
Annunciator: 5860r
Notification Devices: Wheelock AS,Wheelock RSS,Wheelock ZRS,Wheelock MT outdoor,and A Faraday alarm that I forgot the model of,And SpectrAlert Advance ceiling mount.
Pull Stations: Silent Knight SD500-PSDA,Faraday dual action T-bar.
Smoke detectors:Silent Knight SD505-APS,Silent Knight SD505-PHOTO,Silent Knight SD505-AHS(heat detector),Honeywell beam detector.
Extras:System Sensor L-Series Alert Strobe,Silent Knight monitor module,STI Stopper 2.
Thats the whole system for you!
Wow. That’s a big system
yes it is,because its a middle school
V.F.W. Post 3323 (Westland) - While this facility does not have a fire alarm system, it does have two devices that are worth mentioning as they are both vintage and serve as doorbells for the building.
Notification appliances:
<One Simplex 4050 horn above an entryway
<One Edwards 340-series 4" Adaptabel above another entryway with a golden serial plate and blue lettering/outline
The kitchen also has an Ansul suppression system as evidenced by a round, silver Ansul pull station.
Ok,my church has a HUGE system, here is a list
Notification devices(that i know of):Spectralert advance speaker strobes and strobes,spectralert classic speaker strobes,Siemens UMMTs (2 with the lettering on the front and the rest have the lettering on the side),Edwards 895B-301s,a Siemens strobe that i forgot the model number of,a couple System Sensor L-series (speaker strobes and a horn strobe),and a spectralert advance P2RK.
Pull stations:Mircom MS-710U,Cerberus Pyrotronics MSI-20B,one Fire-Lite BG-12,and a Edwards 278B-2320.
Smoke Detectors (that I can remember):Cerberus Pyrotronics FP-11,System sensor I3.
Annunciator(s):Cerberus Pyrotronics RCC-1? Mircom RAX-LCD?
Panel:Mircom FX-2000 that is pretty big because it has EVAX voice evacuation
That’s all that i can remember!
South Station - Boston, MA
Panel: Simplex 4100U, located in a closet near the men’s restroom.
Pulls: Electro-Vox FM-950’s rebranded by Kidde in most areas…
…and a Simplex 2099-9138 near the train platforms.
There are also some 4099-9006’s, mainly in the CVS pharmacy and one near the Auntie Anne’s pretzel kiosk.
Detectors: TrueAlarms…
…and some older (Fenwal?) detectors.
Signals: Wheelock STH-15S speakers and RSS strobes in the main concourse…
…an SAE VA4 speaker/strobe near the escalator from the subway area…
…a Wheelock ET70WP speaker/strobe near the train platforms…
…and some ET-1010-WS-24 speaker/strobes.
There are also some TrueAlert speaker/strobes in the CVS.
Now for some systems in New York City…
Penn Station
Pulls: Notifier NBG-12LX’s
Detectors: FSP-851’s and some FSP-951’s
Signals: Wheelock E70 and E90 speaker/strobes with “ALERT” labeling…
…and ET70WP’s at the train platforms.
Moynihan Train Hall
Pulls: Notifier NBG-12LX’s and some Sigcom SG-32-series
Detectors: FSP-951’s
Signals: Wheelock E50 and E60 speaker/strobes
World Trade Center transportation hub
Pulls: Sigcom SG32-series rebranded by Firecom
Detectors: Apollo XP95’s
Signals: Wheelock E90 speaker/strobes, many of which use a custom cover plate
Fulton Street subway station
Pulls: Simplex 2099-9138’s and 4099-9003’s
Detectors: TrueAlarms, some of which are installed in a protective cage
Signals: Wheelock RSS remote strobes (audio is wired into PA), and some retail areas have E70 speaker/strobes.
34th Street - Hudson Yards subway station
Same as Fulton Street except there’s less variety and the RSS’ are ceiling-mount.
Disney Store (Times Square)
Pulls: RSG RMS-1T’s rebranded by a local company (no, they don’t have break-glass Stoppers despite this being Disney.)
Detectors: FSP-851’s
Signals: Wheelock E70 speaker/strobes
Rockefeller Center
Pulls: Cerberus Pyrotronics MSI-B6F’s, and some rebranded Gamewell Centuries, and a few Siemens-branded MSI-B6F’s
Detectors: ILI-1’s and FirePrints
Signals: A wide variety, including F-series strobes and speakers, I-SM-series and S-HP-MCS speaker/strobes and U-S-series strobes, rebranded Wheelock E70 and E90 speaker/strobes and ZRS strobes.
Grand Central Terminal
Pulls: Siemens HMS-M’s
Detectors: OP921’s
Signals: Wheelock E70 speaker/strobes (rebranded)
At the time of my visit, many of the EST Integrity speaker/strobes from the old system, which was an IRC-3, were still installed.
A couple months after my visit, the Long Island Rail Road station known as Grand Central Madison opened. Going by the pictures online, it has a Simplex system.
I found some permit filings which mentioned that a new Fire Command Center was built to house the panels for both systems.
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