It’s pretty interesting to see a brand new conventional system. Although my area is primarily made up of smaller buildings, almost all of the new systems that aren’t retrofits are addressable. The most recent conventional systems I’ve seen were installed over 7 years ago (a Fire-Lite MS-10UD and a Siemens SXL-EX). Nowadays, they seem to go for small addressable panels, such as the Siemens FC901, the Potter AFC-50, and the GW-FCI 7075, and the Simplex/Autocall 4007ES.
The same exact hardware exists at President Garfield’s Lawnfield estate in the Cleveland suburb of Mentor, which is also an NPS property
Updates:
I saw that this college is at the top of the list of recent projects on the website of the Autocall dealer in my area. This likely means that this building will be getting an Autocall 4100ES voice system, which is very unprecedented for this college.
They have officially made the decision to close this school. There is still no telling what will happen with the building after the school district sells it, but the community has made it clear that they still want the property to be focused on education and community. The roughly 70 kids from this school (not counting the ones who will move to the middle school next year) will move to the open space at other schools in the district, and the staff will fill much needed roles at other schools in the district. If they ever need more elementary school space again, they will add onto the existing elementary schools (especially the new school that was opened in 2023, and my former elementary school).
I took this photo today:
This photo was actually taken in a bathroom, of all places. Oddly, this place has horn/strobes in all of the restrooms in both the older, and the newer parts. The system still hasn’t been replaced, although I’d say it’s pretty insane that an arena with seating for almost 10,000 people has this system. They aren’t planning on upgrading as many things as they originally were, and they don’t have a whole lot of extra money, so they will likely run this system until it dies, or they are forced to replace it.
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5-Star Storage Plaza- Bismarck, ND
This building has an addressable Potter system with PAD addressable devices, and rebranded Gentex notification appliances.
Here’s something quite ironic:
This building is home to the central office for the Autocall dealer in my area.
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There’s this retirement home company that has a bunch of similar buildings and some of the systems got retrofitted
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Good finds! Odd how that Amseco SFH45/SFH47-series speaker/strobe has its lettering facing the wrong way though, heh.
Neat, but I wish the installations who put that MS-9200UDLS in had done what the other panel installers did & not just mounted it to the old FACP’s cabinet.
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At least it’s not as bad as what they did with that Notifier panel. That looks pretty terrible lol.
What notification appliances do the System 3s use? My first guess would be rebranded Wheelock 7000 series devices, but I could be wrong.
Well at least in that case the entirety of the old panel was removed instead of just the circuitry.
The silent knight panel is also on the system 3 door
Yeah I believe that’s what they used
That’s the best retrofit out of all of them
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Oh yeah…actually thought it wasn’t from the sheet of wood over it, but the previous panel is still there.
That is an Awesome looking System 3. Iv’e only seen pictures of system 3’s with the blue cabinet.
Here’s the alarms at a Wyndham in Lake Charles. They have Siemens devices with Siemens rebranded Wheelock notification appliances. The annunciator is a SSD-C, probably for a Firefinder panel.
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More from Lake Charles, heres an EST system in the Townsley Law Arena at Mcneese State University. (I dont go here btw)
DAMMIT! Now we gotta wait another small loan of a million years till we get to see a real 8500!!!
I saved a system like this irl
That’s The First Time I Saw A Picture Of A 4904 Strobe+Bullseye Speaker