My “fire alarm” collection has expanded since I first posted it, more than 2x the size, but still nowhere near as big as my household smoke alarm collection. I have also included the backstory behind how I got all my alarms since my collection is rather small.
And here is my household smoke alarm collection:
Devices:
- Edwards Genesis G4R-S7VM speaker strobe (broken speaker)
- 2x Edwards Genesis G4RF-S7VM speaker strobe
- Edwards/EST/GE SIGA-PS detector head
- EST SIGA-278 pull station
- Fire-Lite BG-12 pull station
- 2x Simplex 2099-9754 pull stations
Residential Smoke Alarms:
- 1x System Sensor 2001RFH smoke alarm
- 1x FIREX 5000 smoke alarm
- 2x Kidde/FIREX i4618 smoke alarms
- 9x Kidde/FIREX i4618A smoke alarms
- 1x Kidde KN-COSM-IB smoke/CO alarm (nonfunctional, reached end of life)
- 1x Kidde/FIREX p12040 smoke alarm
- 2x Kidde i9010 smoke alarms
- 2x Kidde KN-COSM-IBA smoke/CO alarms (1 shown, other one currently installed outside my bedroom)
- 1x Kidde/FIREX i12060A smoke alarm
- 1x Kidde KN-COPE-IC smoke/CO alarm (currently installed in my bedroom)
Backstory behind my alarms
I got some of these devices back in 2015-2016 when I was like 11-12 years old and I was not as responsible with my stuff as I am now so that is why they look a little beaten up. The BG-12 was my first device and it was a birthday present from a friend who bought it off Amazon. The Simplex pull stations were both NOS on eBay for $25 each and they were also birthday presents, one was from the same friend who got me the BG-12 and the other one was from my parents. As for the EST devices, I got those from my high school. Throughout my junior and senior years of high school, I worked very closely with the building service team at my school, and I would go with the manager for the building service team and help him perform repairs and other building operations related tasks. One day, he took me to this mechanical room that was also being used to store spare and broken fire alarm equipment, among other things and told me that I could take pretty much anything in there since they were all “low interest items” that were subject to different disposal procedures. Other than the devices I took, there were a bunch of EST SIGA-PS detector heads, an EST booster power supply panel, and even an old EST2 panel, there were some other items of interest to me that were not fire alarm related such as some wood doors (one of which was cut in half), and some electromagnetic locks, and other various door hardware. I was unfortunately only able to take what I could fit in my backpack as I didn’t have any safe method of transporting any of the large items like the panels so I had to leave those behind.
As for my smoke alarms, I got the System Sensor 2001RFH, as well as all the Kidde/FIREX 5000, i4618, i4618A, i9010, and KN-COSM-IBA units during my town’s official cleaning weekends that they host twice a year. The KN-COSM-IB came from the basement of my house where it had been from 2014-2021 before reaching the end of life and being replaced with a KN-COPE-IC. The p12040 came from a family member who filed a warranty claim with Kidde and they mistakenly sent him the wrong replacement product and never asked for it back. The i12060A was purchased from my local Home Depot in August 2021 to replace an i4618A installed in my bedroom that was causing nuisance alarms but the interconnect functionality never worked for unknown reasons. The KN-COPE-IC was installed in the hallway outside my bedroom to replace a KN-COSM-IBA that was also causing random nuisance alarms but after two years of having it there, it caused more nuisance alarms from cooking than the alarm closest to the kitchen (a FIREX i4618A) did so I installed one of the KN-COSM-IBAs that I got from the fall cleaning in the hallway and replaced the i12060A in my room with the KN-COPE-IC from the hallway.
