Townsville City Hall has
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Some Gamewell FACP
Gamewell bells
In 2016, the system will be upgraded to
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TrueAlertESs
TrueAlarms
4100ES
Some Gamewell FACP
Gamewell bells
In 2016, the system will be upgraded to
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TrueAlertESs
TrueAlarms
4100ES
Well I tried to make it factual, but it is hard to get the years of when each fire alarm are made so I just guessed, but I won’t put down years anymore then. However I still am gonna use random horns.
The Millard Catholic Secondary School has its alarms set up like this.
In hallways and in most big classrooms, the alarms are Edwards 892-2B horn/strobes with different pitches set for different areas.
The chapel, instrumental music and CC lab have Simplex 4903-9219 horn/strobes.
The special education lab, business technology classroom and resource center have newer Space Age Electronics VA4 horns but each are set to different pitches.
The Media Lab and the Physics classroom have Edwards 892s that are electromechanical and sound like Adaptahorns.
The gymnasium has Wheelock NS’s set to Code-3.
The cafeteria has System Sensor MA/SS-24s set to 800 Hz.
Gooseberry Hills K-8 School:
This is one of many old schools in the Conover district. Despite opening in 1943, it has a fairly new system - a Simplex 4004, but still has a bunch of assorted old devices. NAC 1 is set to march time, and NAC 2 has been left on continuous. The system is connected to the fire department via a Gamewell Masterbox.
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The smoke detectors were made by Edwards.
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The pull stations are mostly 270-SPO’s. But the one in the foyer is an ADT 5050.
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There are 120 VAC Simplex 4040’s all over the school, but they were part of an older system and are no longer operational. Most of the signals are Edwards 892-2B’s, which are hooked up to NAC 2.
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However, the signals in the gymnasium, library, and cafeteria are all Edwards 891D light plates with flush-mount adaptahorns. These are all hooked up to NAC 1.
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One of the cafeteria’s two Adaptahorns was replaced with an Edwards 882-2B.
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There are 802-2B strobes in the restrooms, classrooms, and in the teachers’ lounge.
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The grade 6-8 wing has a Simplex 4009-9001 hooked up to NAC 2.
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The detectors are older-style TrueAlarms.
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The pull stations are Simplex 2099-9768’s.
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The signals are Faraday 6120’s on Simplex 2903-9101’s. The strobe is on the bottom. These were some of the last 2903’s, having been installed in the early 1990’s.
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In the music room, there are two of these Simplex horn/strobes.
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The 2903 in the math department broke down, and was replaced by a 4903-9220.
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The auditorium has 2902-9713 LifeAlarm speakers on 2903-9102 strobe plates. These are controlled by a Simplex 4003, which puts out a code 3 tone and no voice message.
The 892s were original to the building and when they conked out they were replaced with everything that I had listed there which is how they came up with that system.
Anyway, now that I got that out of the way, the next school. The Eve Donovan Elementary school. A 586 student elementary school.
Hallway horns are Simplex 2903+2901-9833s
The media center has a Simplex 4051+4050-80
The administration offices have Wheelock 7002Ts
The enrichment classroom has a Simplex 4903-9219
The gymnasium has Siemens U-MMTs
The cafeterias have TrueAlerts.
The 892’s were fine where they were.
What I wanted to say was that the 892-2B doesn’t have a potentiometer for pitch. So if you’re interested in buying one, and want to be able to adjust the pitch, look for an 892-1B instead. Which I should have said in the first place instead of making a snide comment. I’m sorry.
Its OK. Just please don’t make anymore snide comments or make fun of me anymore. I can’t collect fire alarms so I have no idea of knowing which dates each alarm was manufactured or each alarm a system would use in a time period.
Also its the -1B instead of the -2B? I asked because I was referencing this video which said it was a -2B.
Ponderosa Middle School is an 826 student middle school and it is set up like this.
Hallway and some big room alarms are the Gentex GMS
The woodshop classroom, the mechanical drawing classroom and the Home Ec Kitchen have Gentex SHGs
The Home Ec Sewing Room, Art Room and Library have Faraday 6120 horns with the strobe on the front
The band room has an Edwards 792
The locker rooms have Gentex Commander 3s
The entrance to the school has Mircom Select-a-Horn/Strobes. The older version.
Just by looking at the mechanism, I can tell that it’s a 1B. And it has a raspy tone, whereas the 2B sounds more muffled.
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Slateport Coastal High School
This is the oldest of Slateport’s three high schools, and was built in the 1950’s. However, the only alarm that survived this era is a Federal Model D siren, kept behind a glass display case as part of the city history exhibit. The current system has two connected panels - a four-zone Simplex 4207, and a Simplex 4008. The 4207 was left intact in order to handle all of the old devices, and the 4008 handles the newer areas and connects the system to the city.
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The main wing, which is serviced by the 4207, still has its old Simplex 4262-series ionization detectors. These should probably be replaced soon.
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The pull stations are Simplex 4252-11 Π-bar pull stations.
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The signals are 10-inch Simplex 4080 vibrating bells, with 4050-series remote lights. One of these lights was replaced with a 4904-9001 light, and the signal outside the guidance office was replaced by a 2901-9838 + 4903-9001 horn/light. The 4207 is equipped with a codewheel, which originally was configured for slow march time, but was recently converted to the city-mandated 7 short, 1 long coding.
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The cafeteria has two bells on the wall, and four lights on the ceiling.
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The newer wing, which contains the auditorium and gymnasium, has newer-style photoelectric TrueAlarms.
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The pull stations are Simplex 4099-9003 dual-action addressable stations.
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The signals are Simplex 4906-9137 multi-tone TrueAlerts. They are coded to 7-1. Most of them are set to 500 Hz, but some are set to bell.
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The auditorium and gymnasium have Simplex 4903-9356 speaker/strobes. They are controlled by 4003 panels, and broadcast the 7-1 code followed by the standard voice message.
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There are white, weather-proof TrueAlerts on the exterior of the building.
The Marlena D. Evans High School has a system that is set up like this.
In most places in the school, there are Simplex 4041 horns connected to Simplex 4050-80 light plates. The horns are in continuous, but the light plates blink in march time.
Inside of the health classroom, the electronics lab, computer technology lab and the home economics kitchen are Simplex 4051 horns but they are on Space Age Electronics AV32 light plates. They also blink in march time.
The administration suite, the guidance suite and the weight room however have Wheelock 7001 horn/strobes. Also set to continuous.
The business lab and the graphic arts lab have Gentex SHG horn/strobes set to continuous also.
The chorus and mechanical drawing classrooms have Siemens U-MHT mini-horns set to Code-3 tone.
Finally the wood shop lab has a Potter Select-a-Horn/Strobe set on temporal broadband.
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In most places in the school, there are Simplex 4041 horns connected to Simplex 4050-80 light plates. The horns are in continuous, but the light plates blink in march time.
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Inside of the health classroom, the electronics lab, computer technology lab and the home economics kitchen are Simplex 4051 horns but they are on Space Age Electronics AV32 light plates. They also blink in march time.
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Here’s how that would be done: There would be two separate NACs (notification appliance circuits). One of them would be set to continuous, and another would be set to march time. The horns would be hooked up to the continuous circuit, and the lights would be on the march time circuit.
Here’s an example (with code 3 instead of march time) from the YouTube user blackmaxima.
AV-32’s instead of 4050-80’s means they were probably installed by a different contractor as replacement devices. If the installers were crunched for time (which they often are), they could have wired the horns and lights together, and put them both on the march time NAC, and now both the horns and the lights are on march time.
[quote] The chorus and mechanical drawing classrooms have Siemens U-MHT mini-horns set to Code-3 tone. [/quote]The U-MHT is the single-tone version. It sounds like a steady smoke alarm horn. The U-MMT is the multi-tone version. It doesn’t have a code 3 tone, but it has a single-stroke bell tone which would sound like a code 3 tone if hooked up to a NAC that’s set to code 3.
Overall, I like it. It seems like a mixed-up system you could find in a large high school.
The 4051s are on continuous. The AV32s are only in Code-3.
As for the U-MHT not having Code-3, that one was connected to the second NAC.
The high school has 2000 students.
The Aidan D. Jennings Middle School which has 810 students is set up like this.
Hallway horns are Faraday 6020s on Space Age Electronics AV34 strobe plates. Set to continuous.
The band room has a Simplex 9838 on a 2903 strobe plate. Set to continuous.
The Media Center has Simplex 9806s on 2903 light plates with the strobe on the bottom. They blink while the 9806s are in continuous.
The Wood Shop classroom has a Simplex 4903-9219 horn also on continuous.
The Home Economics Kitchen has an Edwards 892-7A-HSR set to Code-3.
The gymnasium was recently redone and replaced with Wheelock ZNSs also on Code-3.
Let’s just remember this topic is for fun… No need to dissect every post to check if it’s factual. I don’t post in this topic, but I for one would be pretty annoyed if someone kept correcting or explaining my own system I “created” back to me.
I wasn’t really correcting the system. I was just giving examples of how it might be done in real life.
The Beauregard A. Brady Elementary School, which fits 800 students is set up like this.
The hallway alarms in the school are Space Age Electronics VA4 horn/strobes set to continuous. All of them sound slightly different in some way.
There is one Faraday 6120 with the strobe on the front in the computer lab.
The Media Center has one Honeywell SC807A1029 on continuous also.
The playroom on the other hand has a Simplex 9833 behind a 2903 light plate with the light at the top on continuous but the light blinks.
The ELL classroom has a Wheelock MT4 on Code-3 horn.
The gym hall was all Integrities also on Code-3.
An art museum has Gamewell Centuries (because, reasons?) and Simplex TrueAlerts on a Fire-Lite panel (replaced a Simplex 2001 2 years after the TrueAlerts were installed). The Fire-Lire panel is a filtered DC model, so no fried TrueAlerts.
Got a really creative one here.
The Constitution class USS Enterprise NCC-1701 has a pretty wacky system for being from the 23rd Century. They have and entire deck devoted to a relay based fire alarm system, that is tied into the new computer system. There are vibrating bells and 4030’s down in engineering and 4050-80 horns on most other decks. The system is activated by the computer or pull rods (Spock likes the old 20th century look). The system uses a inert gas firefighting system. The system was upgraded in 2285 to a voice evac system that plays the Star Trek Red Alert sound in temporal coding. The system no longer uses gas to fight fires, it uses force fields to smother them. Yes Simplex still exists in the 23rd century.
Did Starfleet approve of the unusual system, or was Kirk being his usual self and install without approval?
This Middle School that has 946 students is the Charles M. DiMera middle school.
The hallways in the school have Wheelock 7002s.
The one in the chorus room had been upgraded to a 7002T though.
The media center was serviced by a local fire alarm company when they renovated it and instead of using Wheelock, they used a Simplex 9806 on a 4903 strobe plate.
The art room has a Space Age Electronics 2DCD horn on an AV32 lamp plate that blinks.
The music classroom has a Wheelock MIZ-245-R set to Code-3.
The carpentry room has a Wheelock MT-24-MCW-FR set to Code-3 also.