Interesting / Unusual Alarm System Vids

Edwards Integrity with a FOS 6120.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-t8hfJFTY - Voice evac system with the same two-step whoop as the alarms in the old World Trade Center.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-t8hfJFTY - Voice evac system with the same two-step whoop as the alarms in the old World Trade Center.

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That’s a ā€œFirecomā€ system, which was installed in 7 WTC. 1 and 2 WTC did NOT have this, they had Cerberus Pyrotronics systems.

Simplex 9219s in march time

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Simplex 9219s in march time

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The description of that video says that the alarm heard was a -9217 (110cd version of the -9219)

Well you get the idea. It is almost the same but with a different candela rating.

Edwards 792s

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlPKSBVnW8l/
Here’s a brief clip of a newer ā€œFirecomā€ system.
You can see a Wheelock ET70WP and a rebranded Sigcom pull station.

Simplex 9838s that sound like 9219s.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lydFOJB84wI (skip to 4:56)
Nothing is seen, but what is heard is a Honeywell FS90 system! (and also the new Notifier/Honeywell system, since the system was in the process of being upgraded at that time.)

Edwards Integrities and FOS 6120s

Fire alarm going off in the North Wing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC. Horns are Cerberus Pyrotronics-branded Faraday electromechanical horns with the MTL-type strobes. I’ve heard them go off before in person and they were super loud and grating. I’m guessing they were the high-output version of the horns based on how loud they were, and that they were on FWR judging from the raspiness. They seem to be on some sort of slow march time coding, but they also pause intermittently while the strobes keep flashing, which was the same experience I had years ago.

I am actually quite interested in knowing what Cerberus Pyrotronics rebranded these horns as. If they were Faraday horn/strobes, then they would be the Faraday 6120 aka the Simplex 2903-9838 horn but if they are used by Cerberus Pyrotronics, they must be something else.

Simplex 2901-9806+4903-9101s and Simplex TrueAlerts

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Fire alarm going off in the North Wing of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC. Horns are Cerberus Pyrotronics-branded Faraday electromechanical horns with the MTL-type strobes. I’ve heard them go off before in person and they were super loud and grating. I’m guessing they were the high-output version of the horns based on how loud they were, and that they were on FWR judging from the raspiness. They seem to be on some sort of slow march time coding, but they also pause intermittently while the strobes keep flashing, which was the same experience I had years ago.

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Sounds like a coded system to me. I counted 10-2, can’t think of another type of system that would punch a pattern like that out.

Edwards 8810-AWs, Wheelock RSS, Wheelock AS-2415 and I swear I heard a Classic SpectrAlert in there.

Apparently they still make Wheelock AS-2415s because the one in the video is a vertical one and it does code-3. Reminds me of my elementary school where the multi-purpose room (which was originally a 1st grade classroom down in the basement while the rest of the 1st grade classes were on the main floor) had one and it was the only code-3 horn in the school. Back then (1999, 2002 to 2004) I was interested in it.

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Edwards 8810-AWs, Wheelock RSS, Wheelock AS-2415 and I swear I heard a Classic SpectrAlert in there.

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That video is actually from one of our members: TheAlmightyZach.

I know that but I told him that I was gonna post it anyway because it was interesting and when was the last time you have seen Adaptahorns on a US system?

Simplex 4903-9219s in code-3

Here’s some rare ones for you -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i109CJF3bw&index=465&list=FLMJflvY_GfR62YgkjkLOKYg&t=0s - Recently dug this one up out of my ā€œFavoritesā€ - An Amseco BZ-54VT behind a Space Age AV-32 plate. And it actually sounds good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlZuKpurlpQ&index=499&list=FLMJflvY_GfR62YgkjkLOKYg&t=0s - Starts with a Wheelock AS-24, but the rest are all ES-DL1-WS-24’s, which are the flush mount version of the ā€œelectronic 7002ā€. Sound familiar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmvdLnTbNwY&index=451&list=FLMJflvY_GfR62YgkjkLOKYg&t=0s - SpectrAlert Advances, followed by a huge chorus of MASS’s on slow whoop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJVp4whuUU&list=FLMJflvY_GfR62YgkjkLOKYg&index=229&t=0s - Faraday 6226 horn/strobes

I now know what I plan to be doing in my spare time now that I know what your favorites list comprises of. XD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CoqYHo-9Ms SHGs and SpectAlert Advances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFR6eY7Dzlo Canadian video, so horns that are the Canadian version of 9833s.

Simplex 2901-9838 horn on a 2903-9101 light plate.

Simplex 2901-9838s in continuous.