The annuciator right? If so it’s so funky! It’s even crooked
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That one horn/strobe is mounted really high!
Wonder if the EHSes are replacements for some of the original 890-series NAs.
Those are actually also Edwards believe it or not: model numbers seem to vary when it comes to ones with that design but the ones I know of are the 6250B, the 6250C, & the 6264B (I also own a model that consists of a “P-847570-1044” head & a “P-847674-0123” base (yes those are the actual model numbers from what I can tell).
As SlyFox said, interesting way of mounting that annunciator.
The fact that the one TrueAlert isn’t mounted in line with the pull station below it really irks me.
I do believe that’s the very first system I’ve seen with CO detection capability! (& System Sensor’s CO detectors for that matter)
I know! All but one of the 890-Series were. The EHSs were much lower.
That could be. The EHSs (only 2 that I could see) were in areas that could’ve had em.
Huh. That’s interesting!
I just noticed that lol. I now hate that install lol
Yes, & from what I’ve seen the little flower petal-shaped openings on the detector in the last photo mean that it has CO detection capability! (which is also where the CO sensor itself is as well)
Interesting. I’ve never seen a heat detector on a CO detector base.
Target Store #2010
Panel: Bosch Radionics of some sort
NAs: System sensor SpectrAlert Classic ceiling mount in most of the store, mixture of remote strobes and horn strobes. there are also wall mount remote strobes in the bathrooms. all the devices are white.
There are duct detector key switches around the store, some being the older system sensor variant, and some being the newer magnet test variant.
I’m a little confused why they used a co detector base there. But in the dorms they used a separate co detector.
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This past weekend, I spent Halloween at the Furpocalypse convention at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Stamford, CT. They have a pretty neat semi-addressable Simplex voice-evacuation system with a mix of devices from the 1980s to the present. I didn’t see the panel or any annunciators, but given the hotel was built in 1984 and had a few renovations since then, it probably started out as a Simplex 2120, then a 4100+, and now a 4100ES (the hotel’s most recent renovation was in 2017).
The alarm signals are mostly a mix of 2902 LifeAlarm speaker/visuals and TrueAlert speaker/strobes. With the latter, I recall they have the multi-candela versions in a renovated portion of the second-floor conference level of the hotel, and fixed-candela versions elsewhere (mostly replacing 2902s that had failed). In a restaurant/bar on the first floor, there are vertical 4903 speaker/strobes, also replacing 2902s. The hotel rooms each have a 2902-9734 LifeAlarm ceiling-mount speaker, and the ADA rooms also each have a vertical 4904 remote strobe.
The smoke detectors are a mix of Simplex 2098-9508 ionization “wiffle-ball” heads on 2098-9528 bases and newer TrueAlarm detectors (probably photoelectric). With the latter, they have addressable ones in the aforementioned renovated conference wing and at the elevators, and conventional ones everywhere else. The hotel rooms I saw have old Kidde/Lifesaver 1275 smoke detectors.
The pull stations are mainly Simplex single-action 4251-20s. But the main lobby has a few single-action 2099-9754 pulls, and the renovated conference wing has addressable single-action 4099-9001 pulls.
Next to the exit stairwells on the second floor up is an unusual setup where there’s a Simplex firefighters’ phone, and they put a 2902 speaker/visual UNDER the pull station close to the floor!
An amusing photo of me as my private toon detective fursona investigating on why they were installed that way at said exit stairwells.
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MBTA Orange Line - Chinatown - Boston, MA
Pulls: Notifier NBG-12L’s
Signals: Wheelock AS horn/strobes
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Quite an interesting & expansive system indeed!
Okay…that’s sure odd! I sure have never seen something like that before! Wonder why they did so…
This is what’s left of my school’s original fire alarm system. The pulls were simplex coded pulsations. In an art installation, they painted a false continuation of the hallway, which has one of those pull stations in it.
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Oh wow…you really oughta see if whatever old devices remain & that code directory can be saved! (especially the latter: don’t think I’ve ever seen that before!)
Family Fare (North)- Bismarck, ND
Panel: Fire-Lite MS-10UD (likely replaced a conventional Simplex panel from the mid-2000’s)
Notification Appliances: Simplex True-Alert SmarySync horn/strobes (likely running on a SmarySync module)
Pull Stations: Only one Simplex 2099-9754 at the customer service desk
Detectors: I did not see any, but there are likely some conventional Simplex detectors somewhere
Simplex 4037, some kind of grey/white Simplex electromechanical horn (probably AC given the 4037, which is AC, both of which are mounted behind bell grilles way too big for either of them & that have additional stuff behind them in the case of the latter), one of those very old & quite dangerous Pyrotronics “metal cylinder” ionization smoke detectors (mounted on or through a round metal plate interestingly enough), & an Acme Fire Alarm Co., Inc. pull station (no idea of the model number) huh? Quite an old & unique system! Any chance of saving it?
That seems to be a factory painted white Simplex horn in the second picture. I’ve seen one of those in a museum in my area. That one that I have seen is still in service. I think it must have been a replacement because the rest of the system has 4050 horns.
I have a few of those Pyrotronics flush mounted smoke detectors, except mine are painted or bare aluminum.
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I think you should let Old School Fire Alarms know about this place. I would assume the building is from the early to mid 60s
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One of the “additional things” is a Simplex 4045 chime