Lol. It’s was most likely an SPR, but who knows though. Some could’ve been SPRs or SPRVs.
I know not too long ago I mentioned the fire alarm system at a new community center in my city. Well, another city in my area just opened a brand new community center, and it’s fire alarm system is virtually identical to the one in my city. The facility is 53,000 square feet, and features a Notifier voice-evacuation system with System Sensor SPSW and SPSCW speaker/strobes. There might be some NBG-12LX’s, but I didn’t see any. In fact, the only difference between this community center and the one in my city fire alarm-wise is the color of the notification appliances.
On Wednesday my class went to Lake Louise, and here are the alarms.
The building with the lodge, and is near the gondolas the way UP, has an EST system, with EST 757-5A-T horn/strobes. Pulls are all Edwards 270-SPO
A museum-kind building has an Edwards system, with an OLDER Edwards Adaptabel, likely from the 60s, it was the only alarm I saw inside. Outside there is an Amseco BZ-54 horn, and a Space Age Electronics V33 light! That’s the first time I ever saw one of those!! Pulls are newer Edwards 270-SPO
T.J.MAXX has a Simplex system. Alarms are wall mounted TrueAlert horn-strobes mounted on the ceilings. Pull Stations are Simplex 4099-9003
The Home Depot has an old Silent Knight system. Alarms are Gentex Commander 4 horn-strobes and I could see a couple remote strobes. Pulls are Silent Knight SD500-PSs
Lowes has a Fire-Lite system. Alarms are ceiling mounted Wheelock AS and RSSes. Pulls are Fire-Lite BG-12s.
Both BedBathBeyond and the fabric store in a plaza have the same system (unknown), with white ceiling SpectrAlert horn/strobes and a couple wall mounts. I also noticed an Edwards Adaptabel inside the fabric store on the ceiling, but that might’ve been a sprinkler alarm. Pulls are ADT BG-12s
Hawthorn Mall (not the outlet stores) has a very large EST voice-evac system, with white EST genesis speaker/strobes. Most of the mall consists of ceiling mounts, with ones without fire lettering are inside small stores and food areas. Beside the Macy’s there are two wall mounts, so I guess what the plan was was to give the mall the wall mounted speaker/strobes, but then they decided to switched over. Pulls are EST SIGAs
T.J.MAXX has a Simplex system. Alarms are wall mounted TrueAlert horn-strobes mounted on the ceilings. Pull Stations are Simplex 4099-9003
The Home Depot has an old Silent Knight system. Alarms are Gentex Commander 4 horn-strobes and I could see a couple remote strobes. Pulls are Silent Knight SD500-PSs
Lowes has a Fire-Lite system. Alarms are ceiling mounted Wheelock AS and RSSes. Pulls are Fire-Lite BG-12s.
Both BedBathBeyond and the fabric store in a plaza have the same system (unknown), with white ceiling SpectrAlert horn/strobes and a couple wall mounts. I also noticed an Edwards Adaptabel inside the fabric store on the ceiling, but that might’ve been a sprinkler alarm. Pulls are ADT BG-12s
Hawthorn Mall (not the outlet stores) has a very large EST voice-evac system, with white EST genesis speaker/strobes. Most of the mall consists of ceiling mounts, with ones without fire lettering are inside small stores and food areas. Beside the Macy’s there are two wall mounts, so I guess what the plan was was to give the mall the wall mounted speaker/strobes, but then they decided to switched over. Pulls are EST SIGAs
I actually found this a bit interesting. Riccotti’s Submarine Sandwich shop has recently done some renovations to its building. Originally it had a ceiling Commander 3, but after the renovations were finished, they replaced the ceiling commander 3 with a wall mount Commander 3. Right next to the door and where the ceiling mount was over. I thought for sure they would use either an L-Series or an Advanced but they didn’t. The pull station is still the same, which is a Potter RMS-LP T-Bar…
You mean a Commander 4 right? The round one?
Yes that is what I meant. They replaced a ceiling Commander with a wall Commander.
Here in NM, there are wall mounts everywhere on the ceilings. SpectrAlert classics, exceders, commanders, TRUEALERTS, and Advances (Even though thats legal)
In the science wing of my college, there is a wall mount SpectrAlert Advanced strobe on the CEILING. I don’t know if it was a replacement or if I just didn’t notice it until now but Thought it was weird.
Before the upgrade, in the technology wing, there was a remote Simplex 4050-80 on the ceiling.
Today I was at a Halloween bowling party with my brother and a friend at the Hanson Bowladrome in Hanson, MA. Their current fire alarm system is rather mundane, but what’s worth noting is that some old devices were still intact, albeit non-functional. The building had a Gamewell-FCI Flex-series fire alarm panel of some kind, and the alarms were System Sensor SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes (not surprisingly), the pulls were conventional Gamewell-FCI MS-7s (rebranded BG-12s), and there were System Sensor i3 smoke detectors throughout the building, along with at least one Chemtronics 601 heat sensor. But next to a fire exit, there was an abandoned ESL 1500-series panel that was still there and unlocked; just not powered up! I also saw a couple of Fire-Lite BG-6 pulls that were installed rather high, but left intact and disconnected (one of them was virtually next to a BG-12.) Didn’t see any old alarm signals; chances are they installed the Advances where the old ones were, and they were probably either Federal Vibratone or older Wheelock horns or horn/strobes, as I’ve seen those used on 80s-style ESL systems.
At the Lebanon, New Hampshire Weathervane restaurant, the last time I went there, Wheelock 7002Ts and BG-6 pull stations! (Just like the Springfield, Vt. community center)
I forget or couldn’t see the panel, but there’s a good chance that it’s an FCi FC-72.
Mount Zion Synagogue in St. Paul, Minnesota has a pretty unique system. The building was built sometime in the 1950s.
The panel and core system itself appears to be a 90s Notifier system, with System Sensor 2424 smoke detectors throughout the entire building. The education wing, however, still has it’s original 1950s Faraday components, including Faraday “break glass” stations and some unknown Faraday flush-mount horns on the ceiling. Interestingly, I could tell that the ceiling in this wing had been dropped/rebuilt fairly recently, which makes it even cooler that the old horns survived (see my Instagram if you don’t understand what I’m talking about, or if you want to see a picture of the old horns). There’s at least one Simplex 4051 in this wing, which must’ve been a replacement at some point in the 70s. Interestingly, the area in and directly around the main sanctuary has actually seen a full fire alarm upgrade, with ceiling-mount Wheelock AS’s and RSS’s (a few wall-mount as well), and Grinnell T-bar pull stations. There’s also randomly a grey horn in the lobby area that was/is probably used, tragically, as a doorbell (I forget the exact model number, but it’s been referred to as the “loudest horn ever”).
Was the Simplex 4051 in the wing on a 4050-80 light plate or was it flush-mount?
Just flush-mount, aside from the sanctuary wing there were no visual devices.
Sounds like the Springfield, Vermont Shaw’s supermarket, but there’s a grey horn is right next to the walk-in cooler in the bakery section.
It’s probably a Federal Signal Vibratone 350 used for that walk-in cooler!
The Walpole, New Hampshire Shaw’s supermarket, had what looked like Wheelock 7002Ts and an ESL pull station, that’s all I knew, before getting changed to ceiling-mount SpectrAlert Advances in or around 2015…
I dunno about McDonald’s having Wheelock Exceder-series alarms, but the new 2013 McDonald’s in Springfield, Vermont, has 2 red SpectrAlert Advances outdoors. And an alarm on the ceiling indoors, not far from the ordering sections, which says “SMOKE” in blue letters and has a key hole on it.
You got a picture? I’ve never seen that.
I don’t yet. Shucks.
Sounds like it might be a smoke or duct detector indicator/test switch.