Unfortunately, my area is pretty small so all of the buildings that are old enough to have possibly had some of these rare systems were too small to have a fire alarm system at the time or have just been upgraded.
Oh, okay.
What?
Cool!
Staples - Consumer Square - Mays Landing, NJ
Panel: Unknown
Pulls: FireLite BG-12s
Detectors: System Sensor DH400 duct detectors
AVs: Wheelock MT-24-LSMs
The vibrating bells Simplex STR bells are Installed with the mounting plate set screw at the bottom; single stroke units are upside down
From the way you put it it sounds like both types of bells are mounted upside-down: are they? (& why for that matter?)
no, they are not.
take a look at this brochure page from the mid 60s: https://cdn.thefirepanel.com/original/2X/b/b97af715cb70ee09d27afc6715d39503dd7dfdcf.jpeg you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Oh I see. Huh, unusual choice if you ask me.
Sounds like a very interesting system
Showboat - Atlantic City, NJ
Island Waterpark
Panel: Notifier NFS2-3030
Pulls: NBG-12LXes
Detectors: FSP-951s and FCO-951s
AVs: System Sensor SPSRLs and SPSCRLs, and at least one EST LED Genesis ceiling mount speaker/strobe
Lucky Snake Arcade (Former casino floor)
Panel: Unknown conventional panel (Unless monitored by the 3030) tied to an EST addressable panel
Pulls: I didn’t see many, but I saw a Simplex 4251-30 and a SIGA-278
Detectors: ESL 711Us, At least one System Sensor 2451, and at least two SIGA-PSes
AVs: Wheelock ET-1080-WM-24s speaker/strobes, ET-1080 speakers, WMT-24 strobes, Genesis speaker/strobes, Integrity speakers, and Integrity strobes
I recently made a trip to Seattle, Washington, and found the alarm systems there interesting. The SeaTac airport seemed to have a Simplex, and Siemens system. There were some Siemens detectors, and some simplex detectors. The pull stations were Federal Signal 4050-001T style pull stations in the Siemens system with a dual action break glass cover. In the Simplex side, there seem to be RSG RMS-1T pull stations. The N/A’s in the Siemens system are System Sensor MA/SS devices, and in the Simplex side there are Wheelock E70 speaker strobes. Inside the space needle, there is a EST system, with white Genesis speaker strobes with no label. The pulls are SIGA-278 stations, and SIGA-PD detectors.
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You’ll definitely find mostly EST and Simplex systems in Seattle for sure. For example the Lumen stadium (where the Seahawks play at) conists of mostly Simplex TrueAlert speaker strobes along with a few various Wheelock speaker strobes on the system as well. Although most pull stations aren’t publicly accessible it has a 4100ES system. The downtown buildings are mostly EST3 systems with Genesis and SIGA devices from what I’ve found.
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The system at Pike Place Market was a simplex 4100 style system, with weatherproof TrueAlert ES horn strobes, and rod style heat detectors for elevator recall.
I believe you are referring to old Autocall detectors. SeaTac doesn’t have any Siemens systems.
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport - Terminal 1 - Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory, MN
I’ve mentioned most of this system before but here are some more things…
Panel: Honeywell XLS3000 (rebranded Notifier NFS2-3030). The new annunciators are in a metal cabinet for some reason. The old system was an XLS1000 (EST3), and before that an FS90.
Pulls: S464A’s and S464G1007’s
Signals: Despite the large size of this terminal, the old signals may have been horn/strobes due to the backbox extender ring that a couple of of the E70’s are on, and the light rail station still has AS horn/strobes.
Here’s the setup in a recently built addition:
This annunciator isn’t in a metal cabinet unlike the other ones in the terminal.
Pulls: S464G1007’s
Detectors: System Sensor 2251’s
Signals: Wheelock 8-inch speaker/strobes, some of which are on a gigantic backbox.
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The name of the model series it belongs to is “S8”, which as you might guess likely means “Speaker, 8-inch”.
You might be right, I didn’t know what the detectors were, but they looked like Siemens
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport - Terminal 1 - Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory, MN
Detectors: System Sensor 2251’s
Also, there are 5351’s (heat detectors) in some restrooms.
The previous model (5251) used a ring to indicate it’s a heat detector and not a smoke detector, the 5351 uses a temperature icon.
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The Vintage Farm House (Holly)
Annunciators/panel:
Silent Knight 5207 model
Detectors:
System Sensor i3-series photoelectric detectors
Notification appliances:
SpectrAlert classic (P241575 or P1224MCR) horn/strobes and strobes
Notably, I could not find a single pull station anywhere in this store.
Holly Antiques (Holly)
This building does not have a full-fledged alarm system, but it does feature two First Alert 8A67D smoke detectors, one of which had its cover open with no battery!
Ohio is like one of the few states with such old fire equipment still and I love it. I only wish you or Old School Fire Alarms would come across some old Edwards systems, I feel like they are becoming less common around here.
I also wonder if they used single stroke bells in other places besides schools and hospitals and such. Would a high rise residental building use them instead? Single stroke bells are my favourite type of fire alarm audible devices. Maybe it’s cause I grew up with them all throughout elementary school, with a small tweak in hearing Mircom horn strobes, to going back to an outdated school with an even older Single stroke bell system. Plus those big 10" bells are pretty commanding in a fire situation.