It appears that your area has been taken over by Siemens, huh? A similar thing has happened in my area with Siemens and Simplex/Autocall. By doing some research, and some math, I’ve been able to determine that over 33% of the systems in my area are Siemens systems, and over 30% are Simplex/Autocall. Overall, Simplex/Autocall, and Siemens Make up over 63% of the systems in my area.
Just finding out what to post.
MS-9600, i think it can be a 9200 tho.
I was outside my former elementary school today, and I took a few photos:
Wheelock 7004T-115 sprinkler alarm:
Unknown (Simplex???) bell that was used as an outdoor school/recess bell until 2018:
Another Angle:
If anyone knows what type of bell this is, let me know. As far as I know, it is original to the school, which opened in 1994. I remember it being excruciatingly loud if you were standing near it when it went off. It had almost as much coverage as the three 15W paging horns that replaced it.
JBL CSS-H15:
This isn’t really an alarm device, but I figured I’d include it, as three of these are what replaced that bell. They are connected to an Audio Enhancement EPIC paging system that was installed in 2018. They play 4 450hz chimes as the bell tone, and they also serve for announcements.
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Oh, uh, okay…
That looks like one of those rare model 3300 "Farr-Larm"s (no joke, that’s literally what Wheelock calls it for some reason) that had its 31T-series horn replaced with a 7004T-115 (for whatever reason, especially given the 3300 has its own visual signal, a flashing incandescent bulb).
Can’t say I recognize it, though it might have been painted over at some point given there appears to be no visible label on it. Surprised it’s not a 2901-9333, which seemed like the standard 10-inch Simplex bell at one time. It could potentially be a 4027 going by the mounting nut being in the center rather than near the bottom like on the 9333 & the presence of that rounded mounting plate (though I’m not sure they still made the 4027 by 1994).
Surprised they left the one bell in place if it’s not in use anymore & a paging system has replaced the bell system as a whole.
I really don’t know what it is. I should try to get some better photos some day. I shouldn’t have mentioned Simplex at all, as I have no idea if it’s actually a Simplex bell. I just thought I that it could be because it looks similar to ones I’ve seen, and the school was built with a Simplex fire alarm system, so it would make sense that it would have had a Simplex clock/bell system as well. Unfortunately, this is the only bell that was on the system, as a tone on what I believe was the CareHawk paging system was used indoors.
It’s not required to be removed because it’s not a fire alarm device, so they probably just left it because there’s no reason to take it down. I remember that they forgot to turn off the old bell system when they put in the new system, and they both were ringing the bells (although the older system was a few minutes off). They finally disabled the old system after a few days of confusion.
Yeah.
What? Didn’t you say that where those speakers are now were three more bells though?
Well, sure, but still: why leave old equipment up if it’s not in service?
Oh jeez, heh.
I might’ve not explained it very well, but there was originally only one mechanical bell from 1994-2018, and that one bell was replaced with three 15W 70v paging horns in 2018.
The below photo shows an aerial view of the property. The red arrow points to the location of the bell, and the blue arrows show the locations of the paging horns.
This next photo below shows the entire area that these signals must be audible in, as that’s where kids and staff go for recess. Both the old and new systems seem to be sufficient in meeting that requirement. The top of this photo is facing north. For scale, that grassy field in the southwestern area of the property that is to the south of this that softball field is a full-sized football field.
Hard Rock Atlantic City NJ, Simplex 4100ES With voice evac, they still have the legacy devices on the second floor heading to the parking garage, Some Atlas Remote Speakers IIRC. may thy user reply to this for me to put more systems
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more than likely, it’s probably a Benjamin
Tropicana Atlantic City NJ, Simplex 4100ES, Some legacy devices are here which are these. On the casino floor, they have truealert remote strobes, and speaker strobes.
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A Undisclosed location in Hartford NJ, Potter AFC-1000V, with a local operator console! Not too shabby.
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Ocean Hotel & Casino In Atlantic City NJ, Siemens FireFinder XLS, or possibly a VERY late MXL. This hotel finished construction in 2008, so possibly a MXL, but some floors have led3 series devices, which mean that it got replaced recently, so a desigo or cerberus pro series fire alarm system.
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I love how capable, but yet open sourced these systems are. Potter IPA systems are a lot more proprietary, but their AFC and PFC systems are my favorite systems from any brand.
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Just because those devices get replaced, it doesn’t mean that the panel got upgraded. It’s not like they are addressable devices.
No, i meant how some floors are renovated and new rooms, there is a new restaurant coming soon too.
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Yeah, it was also the first potter true system in my area, the other 2 ive seen are in hotels, but dont count since they are replacement systems.