Ok so sorry about me being a day late. Let me go through them. The outdoor alarm is a system sensor Advance Inside is the System Sensor P2RL (L-series), Pull stations are Firelite Bg-12LX, There are smokes, their in the bathrooms they are notifier. The announciator is a fire-lite ANN-80.
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Local Hotel
Panel
EST3 voice assisted panel located in a staff office
EST3 annunciator behind the front desk
Detectors
EST SIGA-PD detectors throughout most of the hotel
EST SIGA2-PD detectors for elevator recall in the main lobby
EST SIGA-OSD detector used as a replacement for a SIGA-PD on the main floor
Pulls
EST SIGA-278 pulls by the main entrance, stairwells, and in the pool room. None by the other exits.
N/A’s
White EST Genesis speaker strobes in hallways and general areas
Wheelock or Gentex? speakers in rooms
Other
Edwards GS FFT jacks in elevator lobbies and by stairwells
Room smoke detectors are on relay/isolater/sounder bases
Multiple trouble, supervisory, and monitor conditions present on the annunciator by the desk
The one closest to me has Wheelock MT’s
Yesterday, I cast my vote for the upcoming provincial election at an advance polling location. This polling station is located in a small office building that has an interesting mix of devices.
The building, which was completed in 1988, originally had an Edwards Custom 6500. The current panel is a Notifier NFS-320C, and its cabinet is mounted inside the 6500 cabinet (a surprisingly clean-looking retrofit job). The few pull stations I saw are a mix of Mircom MS-401s and Notifier MPS-950Bs, and the smoke detectors are Notifier FSP-851As.
The signals are the most interesting part of the system: they mainly consist of SpectrAlert Advance horns (HRAs) paired with white ceiling-mount Amseco Select-A-Strobes (SL24Cs) or red wall-mount Select-A-Strobes (SL24Ws). I also saw a SpectrAlert Advance horn mounted next to a SpectrAlert Advance strobe (pictured below), and the office suite in which I voted has an Integrity horn/strobe. I don’t often see such a mix of brands in a building, and systems with separate horns and strobes are even less common; my guess is that the Select-A-Strobes were added while the 6500 was still in service and that the original audible signals were replaced with the HRAs when the Notifier panel was installed.
Do you think the trim plate behind that sole SRA-B is from a previous device? (possibly an SL24W like you said: speaking of which do you suppose the original audible signals were Amseco too? (not sure why an Edwards system would have such though when Edwards has made their own signals for decades: also odd if you ask me that they’d leave that trim plate in place given the horn right next to it appears to have had its original hole patched up)
I took this photo in a small hallway at the foot of a stairwell; I wouldn’t be surprised if the hallway didn’t have a strobe prior to this unit being installed. Every other horn I saw in this building was mounted on a trim plate, while every Select-A-Strobe was mounted directly on the wall or ceiling; given the traces around the horn, it seems that the trim plate in this photo was perhaps originally in the horn’s spot and was moved when the strobe was added.
I was wondering the same thing about the original signals—I’m baffled as to what they may have been. For a 6500 from this era, I would expect 439D bells or 881D/885D Adaptahorns. However, the trim plates don’t look like an Edwards product; they’re not from an 881D (as they don’t have screws in the outer corners), and I’ve never seen 439Ds paired with trim plates (likely because these bells were already equipped with universal mounting plates and had fairly large bases that could cover imperfections).
Gill Elementary School (Farmington Hills, MI - built in 1955) - This post covers the existing cafeteria and gymnasium from a previous addition, a portion of one hallway, and portions of the exterior.
Annunciators/panel:
Previous systems - Unknown, presumably National Time and Signal Corporation (Natsco) 2000 and 7000-series units
Current system - Unknown, presumably a Natsco 901-series unit
Detectors: Unknown
Pull stations:
Previous systems - Unknown, presumably Natsco units
Current system - Natsco 541-series units (rebranded Sigcom t-bars)
Notification appliances:
Previous systems - At least one Natsco-branded Faraday 6120 horn/strobe with a non-ADA strobe and flush plate; other devices unknown
Current system - Natsco C3 and C4-series horn/strobes and strobes (rebranded Gentex units)
Other:
<One newer 6" Edwards Adaptabel in the cafeteria
<One Natsco P810FG class change bell outside near the receiving area
<One rebranded Faraday 10" bell replacing a Natsco bell of an unknown type behind a grille outside
Some devices at an undisclosed local hospital
The system contains mostly TrueAlerts and TrueAlarms, but some old addressable Simplex smokes and 4903 strobe plates remain. There are a few addressable T-Bars.
I love that setup for some reason (mainly the older devices but the newer ones are nice too), maybe because of its 90s-ness.
Did I share the photo’s of 4050-80s with bells here before? I can’t remember.
So I do have a building I have to share. But it is a long story. Should I do it?
Yes go for it! Whatever it takes
Fire Alarms in the Boston Prudential Center Parking Garage:
Simplex 4903-9136 Speaker/Strobes or similar model (An Early 24 Flashes per minute version of the 4903-9147)
Simplex 4903-9147 9143 9145 Speaker/Strobes
Simplex TrueAlert Speaker/Strobes
I’m going back there and I’ll post pictures. All speaker/strobes were vertical mounted. The speakers play a Code 3 Tone
BPACC (Bartlett Performing Arts Conference Center) Bartlett TN.
OK so I went to this place when I was in the 1st grade until 5th grade. For my 4th grade year, I actually got to test this system! Shoutout to Mitch at JCI! this place was built in the late 90s and was remodeled in 2009. The panel was a simplex 4010 with 2099–9754 pulls. This system had goodie too. This is actually a voice evacuation system so it had a simplex 4003. This was my first experience with a smoke saber and let me tell you it was a good experience. The alarms are a simplex 4903-9128 white cover. @AidanTheToiletElevat please feel free to correct me. It played the standard message.
El Porton (Germantown TN)
adding onto BPACC place, This system was a rare system. It also had a a cat robot that serves food so yeah. The pulls were Notifer BNG-1’s with alarms being, Wheelock 7002T’s!
Simplex 4903-9128, never heard of that model before. Sounds rare
I just put something random tbh.
Oh are you talking about those Simplex 4903-9167, 9170 or 9173 Speaker/Strobes?
Probably. I don’t know speaker strobe variant models. I knew you did though. I just know the mechanical, and electromechanical horn strobe models.
