Perhaps because the speaker being higher-up means it can cast sound further than if it were lower.
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DSW - Consumer Square - Mays Landing, NJ
Panel: Silent Knight Conventional Panel
Pulls: SK-PULL-SAs
Detectors: Mircom MIX-DH3000 duct detectors and First Alert residential smoke alarms
AVs: VIKING rebranded Wheelock NSes (Probably a local company)
“Viking” is short for “Viking Group, Inc.”, a manufacturer & distributor of fire sprinkler system products headquartered in Caledonia, Michigan: https://www.vikinggroupinc.com/ (not sure why they went to the trouble of rebranding Wheelock’s NS & possibly other products from them or other manufacturers but yeah)
Dick’s Sporting Goods - Consumer Square - Mays Landing, NJ
Panel: Simplex conventional panel
Pulls: At least one 2099-9761
Detectors: None
AVs: 4903 horn/strobes
In a pizza shop in the same plaza there’s a simplex 4903 with a viking T-bar
No idea why that’s the case since Simplex systems typically have everything be Simplex but okay.
Kolbe Cathedral High School, Bridgeport, CT:
- Panel: Unknown
- Pulls: Simplex 4251-20s
- N/As: Simplex 2903 strobe plates in most areas with unknown horns. But, there are some SpectrAlert Classics slapped on the strobe plate in some areas, such as the gymnasium! Yuck!
- Detectors: Unknown, possibly Simplex “Wiffle-Ball” detectors or 2400s
Looks like the Springfield community center still has the Wheelock 7002Ts and FCi FC-72 from what looks like the late-1980s. Except the pool room, where there’s a 34T. Also the BG-6? pull stations.
Probably not an ideal setup. The strobes being mounted low for coverage is a good idea, but for best audible coverage, bullhorn speakers would be better than a speaker with a redundant strobe
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Ah yes: good idea considering the probable size of the room.
I’m pretty sure I saw that system in 2019 back when I was in Boston! Me and my friend went to Quincy Market to eat and then went for a late night walk around Boston, and I remember seeing 3 large red cabinets, for some reason I thought it was some old Fire Lite system. Also the bright fire call box too. I think that area in general had some very intersting systems in those highrises and the walkups on the side streets.
I recently visited a massive archival preservation facility that was completed in 1996. The building features a striking design and comprises three floors of storage vaults along with one floor of preservation laboratories, located above the vaults. To my surprise, the building is protected by a Notifier system; I wasn’t expecting to see this brand in a large government-owned facility from this era as EST and Simplex were more common in these types of applications. While I didn’t see the panel, I assume it was originally an AM2020.
The pull stations are Notifier NFM-950s, and the signals are Notifier KMS-series bells (black bulhorn-style speakers are mounted above the bells):
Many bells and pull stations are mounted on unique architectural poles (the bell shown here happens to be an Edwards MB6-24—the only one I saw in the building):
Interestingly, similar poles were used for the devices (Siemens pull stations and U-MMT horn/strobes) in one of the buildings at my university. The building in question was completed in 2001 and was designed by the same architect who designed the preservation facility (Ron Keenberg of IKOY Architects).
The smoke detectors are a mix of Notifier SDX-551s and CPX-551s (in some cases, both are used within the same area):
The annunciator in the main lobby consists of six LED modules and a remote microphone mounted in a custom freestanding enclosure (apologies for the awful photo—I didn’t think of getting a better one, so this one is cropped from a much larger photo of the lobby):
The facility also featured a multitude of (likely fascinating) specialized detection and suppression systems with which I’m completely unfamiliar.
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Freestanding eh? Interesting. Wonder how they got that approved lol
Also Edwards/EST Genesis-series remote strobes as the 3rd picture shows (if I’m not mistaken at least).
Adventure Aquarium - Camden, NJ
Panel: EST addressable panel (what I believe is but I’m not so sure) tied to a Gamewell FCI (what I believe is) addressable panel
Pulls: EST SIGA-278s and 276Bs, as well as FCI MS-2d
Detectors: EST SIGA-PSes and SIGA-PDs, as well as Gamewell FCI ASD-Is
AVs EST Genesis speaker/strobes, genesis strobes, possibly genesis horn/strobes (since some areas don’t have speaker/strobes), and integrity speaker/strobes (outdoors and in one indoor area), as well as Wheelock ET-1010-WS-24s (one with a dual projector on it), ET80s, E70s, and RSSes
Machine shed, undisclosed location, Bellevue NE.
System seems to be a custom Spectronics system, with a rebranded wheelock 7002T, and BG-6 pulls.
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Oddly enough, that’s the only strobe I saw in the areas I visited in this building; I may have missed others as I wasn’t paying close attention. It doesn’t look like there was originally a strobe in this location as the conduit leading to the strobe is unpainted while the conduit leading to the smoke detector is coated in the same colour as the ceiling.
Really? Huh, okay. Interesting…
Flanders Hotel - Ocean City, NJ
Panel: EST addressable panel with possibly a few conventional zones
Pulls: SIGA-278s
Detectors: SIGA-PSes and Edwards 6250s (some possibly disconnected)
AVs: Integrity speaker/strobes, integrity strobes (single gang), at least one genesis strobe, and unknown speakers
I also wonder how they were able to install the panels like that without it being mounted to any walls and just poles on a table right under the stairs. Hopefully nobody leans on it too hard.
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