Fire Alarms at Macy’s Colonie Square Albany County, NY
Wheelock EHS-DL1 (Very dim NON ADA 1.5CD Strobe)
EST GCFR-HDVM (15, 30, 75, 95CD selectable)
EST GCFR-HDVM (15, 30, 75, 95CD selectable)
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Pet Smart in Jacksonville, FL
This location has quite an interesting system
Notification Appliances:
Gentex SHG
Wheelock Exceder
Pull Stations:
Fire-Lite BG-12
National Guardian Metal T-Bar
Edwards 276B
Annunciator: Silent Knight SK 5235
Pictures:
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That one 9838 sure has seen better days hasn’t it? (nice to see such a vintage system still in service though regardless)
It does! Wonder how it ended up with such an interesting combination of devices (wouldn’t surprise me if the SHGs are original to the system since I believe Gentex devices were commonly installed with Silent Knight panels, at least up until Honeywell acquired the latter: then they started being installed with System Sensor signals instead since Honeywell owns SS too).
Going by the SK-5235 the panel is likely an SK-5208 as that’s supposedly the only panel the former is meant to be used with.
Does that place have any automatic detectors to speak of? (sprinklers too?)
I saw some sprinklers, but no detectors.
Earth Lore (Plymouth, MI)
Annunciators/panel/detectors: Unknown
Pull stations:
<Alarm Industry Products AI270-SPO units
Notification appliances:
<System Sensor SpectrAlert P1224MCR horn/strobes
All the devices are likely from circa 1997, as this is the same year the business was established.
Just a variety of devices in my hometown…
Couch light (?) and Faraday Bell (?) at one of the elementary schools I attended. Probably the coolest system out of all the elementary schools in the district. I saw some (probably Faraday) chevron pulls in other pictures of this school. There was a 278 pull too, so I’m guessing there’s an EST system there now.
System Sensor L-Series, replacing an Edwards 892-2B that makes up most of the signals at the middle school I attended.
Silent Knight 5208 panel in some building.
Simplex 2903 light/strobe plate and a “Whiffle Ball” smoke detector at the main town library. The library was recently renovated and it looks like the old signals are still there. A recent expansion has RSG T-bars and L-series horn/strobes. Unsure of the panel, if they kept it, maybe a 4001 or small 4002.
Simplex 2904 Light/Strobe (?) and 2901-9838 horn outside at the same library. These were replaced with a System Sensor P2RK in 2022 (when the expansion was built).
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Taylor Town Trade Center (Taylor, MI)
Annunciators/panel:
<Silent Knight SKE-450 series voice-evacuation unit with power supply boxes and a Honeywell 6160CR annunciator
Detectors:
<None noticed
Pull stations:
<One NBG-12 unit at the main entrance
Notification appliances:
<One red wall-mount System Sensor SP2R-series speaker/strobe at the main entrance
<White ceiling-mount System Sensor SP2C-series speaker/strobes throughout the rest of the building
1804 Hillcrest park apartment building
Fire lite MS-10UD
For initiating devices it has i3s and another detector I don’t know. For pulls it has Edward’s 270spo’s. For notification it has Wheelock NS-24110’s. There is kind of a fail in the parking garage with only one NA on the Ceiling.
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That’s certainly an interesting system. That ceiling mounted NS reminds me of a system near me that I’ll probably post about soon.
White letter Simplex 4050-80s, including flush-mounted Faraday 812 horns, in a 1950s nursing home in my general area. (won’t reveal location for privacy reasons)
Photos taken November 2023
This is my first time seeing a Simplex 4050-80 out in the wild. I was visiting my grandmother (still alive and well!), and couldn’t stay to take better pics. I think the pulls were BG-12s.
What the Faraday 812 horns look like:
(source unknown, from my rare alarms image archive)
Zak Wolf posted some photos of those back in the late 2000s of a junior high school in the Boston area, but they were 129s. AFAIK, those things are much rarer than the Simplex 4037s
You ougha try & save those if you can given how much rarer they are compared to even 4050-80-series signals in general!
Ditto for those too!
If you’re referring to that one school with the Gamewell system, those are actually Federal Signal horns that have a slightly different design (no idea of the exact model however).
I’d definitely like to. I know the guy who runs the 4050-80 YT channel has made some retrofit plates for 4050-80s, but as for the 812 horn plates, I’m not sure if there’s a retrofit plate for those…
I’ll have to talk to the nursing home staff about it. It’s been a while since I was last there, and I think they’d just tell me “they’re fine the way they are.” Or, worst-case scenario, they’ve already removed them. But, we’ll see.
Was it this post?
Unfortunately, it seems the pictures are lost…
These look to be the ones mentioned in Wiley209’s post.
A few Walmarts near me have this as their fire alarm system which is tied thru the PA system if I’m right
That is a Wheelock S8-series 8-inch-wide speaker/strobe: the panel is likely some kind of Bosch or Radionics, while the voice panel is likely a Wheelock SAFEPATH. Walmarts typically have SpectrAlerts, SpectrAlert Advances, L-serieses, or ASes if they don’t have a voice-capable system, & Wheelock S8s & ET70WPs if they do have a voice-capable system.
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Most Walmarts near me use SpectrAlert Classics
Yeah near me there’s two Walmart stores and a Sam’s Club from the 90’s that use SpectrAlert classic’s. There is also one Walmart from the early 2010’s that uses one of the above mentioned voice systems.
yes, the second one is it