This is located in a hotel/casino building that has three systems. This is the largest, and oldest system. If it helps for dating the system, it has Gentex Commander 2 or 3 horn/strobes and detectors that look the same as Fire-Lite SD355 detectors (but obviously aren’t).
From what I can see, it appears to work with the HS-3030, but I know nothing about that panel, or if it could work with others. In the HS-3030 data sheet, I can see an LCD annunciator with the model “HS-3434LCD” that is probably this, but I can’t find any info about that online.
That is taken straight out of the Mircom FX-2200 manual.
What is going on with all of this??? Can someone please explain? Unfortunately, a lot of the Harrington documentation appears to be lost media. Since I have quite a few Harrington systems in my area that were installed before they transferred to Potter, I would like to learn more about them and their different systems. I’m also currently trying to write a report on the systems, and I like to be as detailed and accurate as possible.
The only panel that I for one know is compatible with that annunciator at present is the HS-3030 (both because you said so here & also because the data sheet for the panel lists that annunciator in it, though it’s also because I haven’t studied Harrington Signal systems extensively). As for that odd Mircom version of it, I have no clue as to why Mircom’s also sold it (unless maybe Potter sold the design for it to Mircom when the former acquired Harrington Signal, or perhaps Mircom made it for Harrington at one time: who knows honestly).
When it comes to “disappeared” manufacturers like Harrington in general, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is likely your best bet (at least if the company once had a web presence & thus made it to the era of the internet to begin with: a lot didn’t). Try these links out on the Internet Archive (the second one I believe has a product page for the HS-3030, AKA the panel you say is compatible with that annunciator, & it may have a fair amount of Harrington documentation as well, though I’m not sure if any for the HS-3030 is among it): http://harringtonsignal.com/ http://harringtonfire.com/
It seems that Harrington rebranded Secutron products, which would explain why this annunciator appears in Mircom documentation. The HS-3030 appears to be a rebranded Secutron MR-2900. Secutron’s old website indicates that the model number for these annunciators was MR-2944 and that they were compatible with the MR-2400 and MR-2900.
I believe that it was indeed Harrington that rebranded Secutron products—and not the other way around—as this listing for an MR-2400 board shows that the Secutron logo appears on the PCB and that it was made in Canada. I’m not sure of the Harrington model number for the MR-2400, but I know that they did rebrand it.
Just so we’re on the same page here, Secutron is simply a brand name of Mircom’s rather than a completely separate company, right? (unless they were the latter at one time & Mircom acquired them at some point)
Ah okay, though were they a truly separate company before Tyco came to acquire them? (good thing Mircom then got Secutron from Tyco though considering how much Secutron could have been butchered by JCI the way Simplex has been, heh)
