some life safety equipment found at Hale Farm & Village (a living history museum operated by the Western Reserve Historical Society north of Akron in unincorporated Bath Township, established in 1958; I live less than 10 minutes away.
has anyone heard of “World Electronics, Inc.?” (pull station in #1 with the SpectrAlert) found in the 1832 Hale House (the museum’s centerpiece)
The visitor center has the same system as the Catholic church by my house: Simplex 4002 (upgraded to a 4007ES) with 4251-30s and 4903-9101 strobe plates with 9838 horns, a lone TrueAlert was found over by the restrooms. this is the newest building in the complex, being constructed in the late 80s.
Neat system. One thing of note is that little circular device next to that (non-glowing from the looks of it!) exit sign: that’s an Ademco 500-series heat detector (no idea what it’s doing mounted there though, especially if there’s no other evidence that an Ademco security system (which 500-series heat detectors were typically used with) was once installed in that building).
I have: they were a maker of wireless fire alarm systems who were founded in 1979 & who went out of business sometime in or after 2007 (not sure why exactly they did but yeah).
I have one of those pull stations. Its model number is 302.
I wonder if World Electronics is a predecessor of CWSI. Both companies were based in Sunrise, FL, and CWSI’s former domain name (wirelessfirealarm.com) was used by a World Electronics dealer until around 2009.
Because it’s a wireless pull station: it has to get the power for its circuitry (including the transmitter that connects it to the main panel) from somewhere.
That’s quite confusing! In early 2007, the website stated that CWSI was coming “late fall 2007”, and another page states that CWSI was founded in 2004; while this doesn’t confirm anything about its founding year, the website of Colorado Wireless Fire Alarm Systems, which originally owned the domain name, only goes back to 2004, so I wonder if this is the company being referred to here.
Moreover, I noticed that the presidents of WE and CWSI have the same last name (Philip R. Barrett for WE, Scott Barrett for CWSI) and that the companies’ addresses were adjacent units in the same building (10794 NW 53rd St. for WE, 10798 NW 53rd St. for CWSI). It’s hard to trace a clear history, but these facts suggest that there is likely a relation between the two, especially considering that WE seems to have disappeared right around the time CWSI products were hitting the market.
The panel was a Fire-Lite MS-4,
And the pulls were NBG-12.
The alarms are Wheelock MT Frosted Strobe!
And the smokes are System Sensor 2400.
Also this smoke alarm which idk what it is? Family Gard? First alert?
I also went to a habitat for humanity ReStore at the end, where I got my TonePak bell and my System Sensor Heat Decetor!
That system was a Notifier system, with Gentex N/As, NBG-12LX’S.
Yeah: be even better if you could save the other devices in that building too, especially that MT-24-WM! (which, while nowhere near as rare as WS-series MTs (yes they do apparently exist according to a photo of one), are still way rarer than clear-strobe MTs (particularly nowdays of course)
Oh, huh…perhaps CWSI was WE’s successor then (which might make sense given they both sold wireless fire alarm systems, though why they’d seemingly change their identity completely like that I have no idea (unless maybe it was to get away from the negative public image WE might have had after a supposed lawsuit).
That place must have an SK-5104, an SK-5204, or an SK-5207 going by what panels that keypad is intended for use with.
What dumb “waller” trapped that SpectrAlert in that wall like that?
