“documents” & “literature” includes any articles of paper that have been made about life safety systems, including product data sheets, ads, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, & manuals.
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OMG! My high school has one of these by the elevator and I have always wondered what it was! They upgraded to an addressable simplex system a while back but they must’ve forgotten this one. They also have a ton of Pyrotronics rebranded 7002T’s. Unfortunately, they are demolishing the building later this year and aren’t letting anyone take anything for “liability reasons”.
Detector im talking about:
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What kind of crap is that? That’s such a stupid excuse for not permitting salvaging!
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Those are very cool ads! That Edwards 6700 though is my favourite, I can only imagine how many of those there was at one point, or if there may be any more in the wild out there.
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Thanks! I was delighted to find that ad. It was only published in one issue, as far as I can tell, so I’m glad I caught it.
I’ve never seen a 6700 in person, and I’d love to find one that’s still in service. Unfortunately, I doubt that will ever happen at this point—basic 6500s are an endangered species, so I don’t expect to come across a system that is equipped with a 6700.
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You don’t suppose the 6700 is the 6500’s bigger brother going by the similar but bigger model number do you?
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My understanding is that they’re part of the same family of products but handle different functions. The 6500 is a typical fire alarm panel that could be configured with various initiating device circuits, signal circuits, and other output circuits, while the 6700 only appears to handle emergency paging and firefighters’ telephones. The documentation on these products is limited, so it’s hard to confirm exactly which functions were offered, but the 6700 ad seems to confirm this.
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Ah okay, so it was more of an accessory panel designed to be used together with the 6500 then huh?
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thank you so much for the link
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Thank you so much. I’ve always wanted to see a 6700 brochure
You know, I wonder: does that mean that Aames Security was once an independent manufacturer that was eventually taken over by RSG, Inc.? (since RSG, Inc. now owns & uses the Aames Security name)
I think they might have just changed their name. I don’t know, though.
Maybe, but it seems more like they were once two different independent manufacturers at one time, which that brochure backs up by Aames having a different address listed than RSG’s (they were based in Long Beach, California while RSG is based in (appropriately enough) Signal Hill, California).
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No, the 6700 was essentially the voice control for the 6500 panel. I think advanced versions could come with tape decks and what not. But they were supposed to be used with the 6500.
My mom’s work had one, and while I briefly heard it once during some phone call 15 to 20 years ago, I didn’t hear much other than the single stroke bells in their 20bpm first stage alarm. It was a 2 stage, and the paging was used to announce the fire location, as it was a nursing home. So the bells would go off, and then they would make an announcement, the bells stop, and then they can say “oh there’s a fire in the first floor kitchen, follow code red procedures” and the bells resume after the page.
There was also a retirement/senior apartments building that is pretty much attached to it as well. They have a separate system, which was just a 6500 panel with single stroke bells and just single stage. But they are also connected, so if an alarm comes up on one panel, the other panel will get the same alarm.
Once upgrades happened, the retirement side got them first, well alongside the nursing home. Reason being is the retirement side went with a Mircom FX-2000 panel, so the nursing home had to switch too so it was more compatible. The retirement side replaced their bells with Spectralert Advance Horns, the nursing home just kept everything the same except for the panel.
Then for some reason, the nursing home got another upgrade just a short few years later, only this time it was a Kidde VM panel, and they upgraded everything to voice evac for the nursing home. Which is how my company got into the servicing, the guy who installed it went out of business, and our company has program keys for VM panels. We had to basically rewrite the entire program though, as with the VMs you can only open programs and upload to panels with your key only. You can’t go to another person’s VM and reupload or modify the program, you have to rewrite it all over for your key.
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Oh, okay. Not sure I’ve ever known of such a thing as a voice panel meant to be used with exactly one FACP model!
Interesting…
Maybe the whole “complex” oughta just have one panel for everything & all the devices the same everywhere to simplify matters.
Proprietaryness: gotta hate it, eh?
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