Bexar High School (San Antonio, TX)
Built in 1981
System is original
FACP - Simplex 2001-3080 with the march time card installed
Fire Alarm A/Vs - Simplex 2903-9001s with 2901-9833s
Pulls - Simplex 4251-30 break glass dual action
Heat detectors - Simplex 4255-1 Thermodetector heat detectors
Please note this is a fictional made up system it is totally not real
Hass high school
Alarms:
First gen as in the office
4050-80s with 4040s in the gym
Av-32s with mass horns in older halls
Gentex commander 1s in white on chimes in some halls
Classics in the cafeteria
Led exceeders in the classrooms
Pulls:
1st gen t-bars in the office
Brake glass t-bars on sti stoppers in the gym
Old bg-12s in the cafeteria
Chevrons in the halls
The panel is a simplex 4002 with a newer announcer by the front door
Smokes:
Esl mini smokes in the cafeteria
Edwards heats in the gym with cages on them
Simplex wiffleball smoke detectors in the hallways
I3s in the classrooms
Gamewell 2400s in Some other hallways
Arnold Ray Middle School. Built in 1972.
In 1972 Arnold Ray Middle opened its doors to students.
The system consists of Simplex 2903-9938’s for alarms. The panel was a Simplex 2001-8001. Pull stations were Simplex 4251-20’s.
In 1980 The panel got fried, therefore needing to replace the panel. The school was getting a renovation anyway.
In 1981 The renovations were complete, The new system consisted of another Simplex 2001-8001, the notification appliances were the same. Along with pull stations. Smoke detectors were added around this time, The smoke detectors were an unknown brand. They were shortly removed after a student jumped and took them all off the ceiling.
In 1991 The school got an expansion, This was a new gym. The system got replaced with a 4001. The alarms were Simplex 4903-9219’s in continuous. Pulls were Simplex 2099-9754’s.
In 2001 The school was temporally shutdown after a gas leak broke out in the school. When the gas leak was fixed, Sprinklers were put in place, replacing the heat dectectors. They were old simplex heats. The system got replaced with a 4005 and separated the panels with the new gym. That panel is a 4004.
In 2002 A mass false fire alarm situation unfolded by one student. This caused the pull stations to have Stopper’s II with a horn.
In 2010 In a annual inspection, all of the 4903-9219’s were defective. The alarms were replaced with 4903-9237’s and one Wheelock MT. On Code 3.
In 2023 The system was replaced with a Simplex 4010Es and the new gym with a Simplex 4007Es
In 2025 The school is educating students for the last time. The building will stay along with the system. The school will become Starfish High School and serve students in the high school level.
Currently, The school is temporally closed due to ongoing renovations. The new system is going to be a Notifier Onyx Series 3030. with a notifier system.
If this were real, that would be a huge waste of money to have a new system installed and only be in service for two years.
I’ve already discussed my town’s old high school plenty, and I’m not going to do that again here. Click this link if you want to see the background information.
In this post, I want to imagine what would have happened if my town hadn’t decided to build a new high school building and had decided to keep the old one.
Here’s what I think would have happened to the system:
Panel- Simplex 4100U gets ES upgrade and a voice bay
Notification Appliances- all of the old and outdated devices and wiring is scrapped and new TrueAlert ES speaker/strobes are installed
Other devices- all other devices remain the same, but broken devices are replaced and devices are moved and added to meet modern code
Annunciator- A Simplex remote microphone is added next to the existing annunciator at the front door
If they didn’t go with Simplex (or maybe Autocall which would have been pretty much the same upgrade), Siemens would be pretty much the only viable option left in my area. Here’s what I think would have happened if they had gone that route:
Panel- Cerberus PRO Modular with voice
Notification Appliances- all of the old and outdated devices and wiring is scrapped and new Siemens SL series speaker/strobes are installed
Pull stations- All Simplex pull stations are replaced with Siemens XMS-S pull stations. Pull stations that need to be moved to meet modern code are moved.
Detectors- The existing Simplex detectors are replaced by modern addressable Siemens equivalents. Detectors are moved and added to meet modern code.
Annunciator- The existing Simplex annunciator at the front door is replaced by a new Siemens annunciator cabinet with a remote microphone
This system is inspired by a system I saw in a dream a few days ago.
Highgate Acura Dealership
Original 2004 Panel: EST Quickstart QS4
Notification Appliances: EST Genesis G1RF-HDVM 75 candela
EST Genesis G1RF-VM 15 candela (In bathrooms)
Initiating Devices: EST 270-SPO
There used to be no detectors
The Panel was fried in 2022 and replaced with a Silent Knight SK-6700. Oddly, they still decided to use EST Notification Appliances
Notification Appliances:
EST LED Genesis G4AVWN 75 candela
EST LED Genesis G4VWN 15 candela (In bathrooms)
Initiating Devices: Silent Knight SK-PULL-SA
Silent Knight SK-PHOTO-W
No smoke detectors? Even if the building is sprinkled, you still have to have smoke dectectors. If you mean heats, yeah you don’t need em. But please add smoke decteors cause those are required.
I fixed it to where it used to have no detectors until the system was changed
Why no dectectors in the first place? They ARE REQURIRED!
Rivertown High School was built in 1956, as a 3-story brick building. The school was expanded to include a new auditorium in 1985, and a 14-classroom addition in 2009.
Fire Alarm
Panel
Annunciator
Initiating Devices
Notification Appliances
Intercom, Bell
Intercom Head-End
Admin Phones/Mics
Speakers, Call Switches
Bell
Master Clock
Panel
Clocks
Love that you included the bell system and intercom system in your system! 1 
from me!
This system is for the Powerhouse at Ashby, a “crayon” proposal I came up with for a Transit Oriented Development residential/small commercial complex in response to one of BART’s TOD RFPs.
The complex consists of 8 mixed-use buildings and an attached utility structure:
Each of the high-rises has a 40’ penthouse atop it that contains:
The pumphouse also contains a water tank in its “attic”. This is there to provide on-site water supply to the standpipes via the fire pump, as gravity tanks can’t generate sufficient pressure to run hose without being excessively tall. Both water services to the complex are brought in at the pumphouse, where they split off to feed the fire and domestic systems.
The panels are networked together using redundant switched fiber optic networks, with one of the switches located in the pumphouse and the other located in the basement of the building in the northwest corner of the complex. Each switch is a CTC-Union IGS-812SM or equivalent with the following features:
The pumphouse switch is powered from, and monitored by, the PFC-4064. The switch in the northwest basement space is powered by an Altronix AL300ULX supply, while both the power supply and the switch are monitored by a PAD100-MIM on the basement SLC in that building.
Each floor, save for the ground floor, has its own notification power, Class A (not quite X) SLC, and amplifier, consisting of:
The ground floor has a DCA-10025 fitted with a BUA-1000 but no SLC or PSU, while the topmost floor has a second PAD100-SLCE card in its PSN-1000E to service the penthouse.
The remote nodes are connected to the panel by Class A P-Link and V-Link wiring.
Each panel connects to 2 monitoring paths, 1 via its builtin Ethernet port and the other via the UDACT-2000/B465 combination:
The mixed-use buildings have
The regular units have their SPWLs controlled by a PAD100-SM, while ADA units have a PAD100-NAC in addition to the PAD100-SM to fire the strobes on the SPSWLs via a MDL3 sync module. Commercial bays use the same control setup as the ADA units, just without the expander strobes.
The pumphouse, on the other hand, uses Wheelock MB-G6-24-R-P bells with RSSP-24MCW-FR strobe expanders on them, driven from separate NACs on the PFC-4064.
The mixed-use buildings have Potter PAD300-PHDs at each elevator lobby, stair tower entrance, and electrical/LV closet. A PAD100-DIM on each floor monitors the floor riser assembly for both waterflow and shutoff, and a conventional pull is located at the fire panel in each mixed-use building, connected Class B to a panel I/O input circuit.
Detection in the units is supplied by Kidde 205AR hardwired residential multiple station smoke alarms, all interconnected to each other and a Kidde SM120X relay module. (One could use somebody else’s smoke alarms if they hate Kidde for some reason; it just requires swapping the relay module out to match.)
Commercial bays switch the PAD100-DIM out for a PAD100-ZM, allowing 2-wire conventional smoke detectors (I’m presuming they’re System Sensor 2WT-Bs but equivalent Hochiki detectors could be used instead) to be used in that unit in addition to monitoring the riser for that bay for waterflow and supervisory (shutoff) conditions. Manual pulls can also be used on the bay smoke/waterflow circuit, if one desires.
Additionally, each space communicating with the parking garage has a System Sensor CO1224 in it that is monitored by a PAD100-MIM; this is a life safety backup to provide notification of CO conditions in case the parking garage ventilation system dies. The tenant services/management office in that building has smoke detection as well, supplied directly by a PAD300-PHD on a PAD300-RB that controls the closer/holder on the management office entrance door.
Finally, the pumphouse has a pair of System Sensor COSMO-2Ws on a COSMOD-2W to detect both smoke and CO conditions and pass those onto the main panel there, with one detector located in the pump room and the other located in the emergency generator room.
The unit smoke alarms are supervised by a RIBMNU1C whose 120V coil input is hung off the front (NO) contact of the SM120X. This contact also provides 120V power to the expander strobes in the ADA units.
The RIBMNU1C, in turn, provides NO contacts to one of the IDCs on a PAD100-DIM to generate unit-specific supervisory signals. This supervisory IDC is also connected to the waterflow switch in the unit riser (we’re already alarming via the floor riser waterflow switch, so this is merely a convenience signal for annunciation purposes.) The other IDC on the PAD100-DIM is used to supervise the shutoff ball valve in the unit riser assembly.
The water tanks on the high-rises have a full set of supervisory circuits (and then some), consisting of:
Elevator recall in each building is handled by the main fire panel, using a PAD100-TRTI for the recall outputs (main and alternate) and a PAD300-PHD in a PAD300-RB for the “fire hat” detection in the machine/control space.
The fire doors that subdivide the 4th thru 8th floors in the center liner building are closed by relay outputs from PAD300-RBs on the elevator recall smokes on the floors in question, which are also the primary source of information the panel uses when closing those doors. These drive standard door electromagnets, as the “floating door” feature of the 4310ME is not needed on a set of doors that are intended to only close during a fire.
Smoke control in the mixed-use buildings consists of stairwell pressurization systems in each stair tower as well as a smoke exhaust stack in each building. Each stairwell has single-point injection at the second floor using a Greenheck direct-drive fan with VariGreen controls, controlled by one of the relays in a PAD100-TRTI module. The other relay in the module, in turn, is used to drop the doors in the stair tower, which are held open by standard electromagnets. Power for the stair tower doors comes from a 24VAC control power transformer and is wired through a PAM-1 relay module.
The VariGreen controller is also responsible for controlling the intake damper for its associated fan and supplying auxiliary 24V power to its associated PAD300-DUCTR duct detector. A MS-KA/P/R remote test switch is provided for the duct detector, and the duct detector relay is used in series with the fan relay in the PAD100-TRTI to disable the fan if the intake ingests smoke.
Supervision of the fan and damper is provided using a thermal-diffusion-type airflow switch monitored by the PAD100-TRTI. A non-ready state on the drive triggers a trouble on the airflow switch circuit, while the other circuit on the TRTI is used to monitor the intake damper switch.
Pressure relief in the stairwell is provided autonomously by a penthouse-wall-mounted barometric damper that is monitored by a PAD100-MIM on the penthouse SLC. Air volumes provided by the pressurization system are sufficient to pressurize the stairwell to 0.05" WC with the exterior stair door and 2 interior stair doors open.
The other half of the smoke control system is the floor relief system; this consists of a damper on each residential floor that connects to a common exhaust duct with a Greenheck belt-drive upblast fan and matching VariGreen motor located on the rooftop.
The fan is controlled from a set of auxiliary damper switches (it turns on full bore whenever a relief damper opens up) but is supervised by another PAD100-DIM on the penthouse SLC, with one side of the DIM connected to a ready contact on the drive and the other IDC connected to the “fan requested” signal. The dampers, though, are controlled and supervised directly by a relay and an input from a PAD100-TRTI, with the other relay on the TRTI used to shut down the HRV/ERV and HVAC for that floor’s corridor.
Each of the mixed-use buildings has the following ECS systems in it in addition to the voice evacuation support:
All buildings in the complex are fitted with dedicated Class I standpipes (except for the pumphouse) and are fully sprinklered:
Tank filling for the high-rises is handled from the primary standpipe riser via an express riser from the fire main loop, a check valve, the isolation valve for that tank, and a Cla-Val altitude valve that performs fill control autonomously. A pre-pump feed is also fed into the sprinkler riser of each building via a check valve on the floor above the commercial spaces; this provides limited sprinkler protection to the midrises should the fire pump fail.
The pumphouse tank is also filled via an isolation-and-drain arrangement and a Cla-Val altitude valve. The pumphouse sprinklers, in turn, are fed from the sprinkler riser of the southernmost high-rise via a separate riser assembly located within the pumphouse itself.
Fire department connections are present at all buildings, including a large-capacity FDC at the pumphouse, capable of interfacing with 5" LDH and even the 12" VLDH of the Berkeley Auxiliary Water Supply System (BAWSS).
The fire pump and emergency generator system that serves the complex’s fire main loop consists of the following:
The pumphouse also contains a B&G/Xylem DP-66SVX2 X3 variable frequency pump rack that provides domestic water pressure throughout the complex.
Additionally, there is also a two-line analog phone in the fire pump room; this phone connects to a voice port on the ONT and to the FXS port on the fire pump room Robustel gateway.
The parking garage space has a demand-controlled exhaust ventilation system in it:
The garage also contains an Eaton 3BR4242LC225 subpanel with a 225A contactor main; this supports the 8 EV charging spaces at the south end of the garage using Eaton EVCIs. The contactor is energized from a 120V circuit via an E-Stop button and a PAD100-RM; this allows the fire alarm to turn the EV chargers off to avoid dumping more energy into an already-burning battery.
The door to each apartment is fitted with a LCN 4310ME closer with a the stock 3077SF arm on it. This closer is powered from the back (NC) contact of the SM120X relay in the unit. This is done to provide what is essentially transparent operation for unit doors and thus eliminate the common temptation of wedging or otherwise blocking doors open.
The apartments are also fitted with a hardwired video entry/intercom system based on PoE SIP hardware. It consists of a Grandstream GSC3570 indoor control station in each apartment with:
networked to the following building-wide hardware:
This system is designed to work with the dormakaba RFID key clip system, allowing tenants to use the RFID tag clipped to the bow of their key to “buzz in” to the building then use their key to enter their apartment. This provides users with the convenience of a single credential on their keyring, although it comes at the cost of requiring one of dormakaba’s high-end European key systems, such as the Kaba star cross.
The designated ADA units in the complex have System Sensor SWL-P strobes set for 15 cd and fitted with LENS-G2 green lenses mounted in the bedrooms and living room. These strobes are run from the 12V supply provided by the POE splitter and are switched through the GSC3570’s output relay to provide visual indication for the doorbell and intercom system in the ADA units.
(continued after my grouphome post…)
For something much smaller, came up with this for a 12-bedroom elder-care grouphome (built by remodeling an existing house):
Panel is a Vista-32FB(PT) with an Altronix AL602ULADA NAC extender, a 6160C-R primary keypad, and a 6148 (or 6150) for a secondary keypad/annunciator. The panel, NAC extender, and primary keypad live in a back alcove near the electrical panel, while the secondary keypad/annunciator lives in the main space and is the only device on #1 keybus port.
Detection is supplied by System Sensor 4WTR-Bs at elevator door locations and in elevator control room(s) for elevator recall, System Sensor 4WT-Bs in the bedrooms (one zone for the 4 basement bedrooms and another for the 8 2nd floor bedrooms), 5 system CO detectors (one on the 2nd floor over the garage, another on the 2nd floor in the hall, one in the 1st floor living space, 1 on the 1st floor near the garage, and a detector in the basement near the furnace room down there), 2 Macurco GD-2B gas detectors (1 in the basement near the furnace room and 1 on the first floor in the family room), and 2 System Sensor 2WT-Bs: one over the panel and one in the living room to go along with break-glass type call points at the panel and entryways. The 2-wire zone also monitors a UL300A hood system (presumably a Guardian-SSI mechanical type as that’s the least-cost option) in the kitchen, and may also have the attic heat detectors on it although they may also be on a separate zone.
The AL602ULADA is fed both from one of the Vista’s NACs and with its V-Plex addressable bus, as a pair of 4101SN relay/input modules are present there to provide CO and gas signals as well as accept the waterflow/supervisory zones from the fire sprinkler system required in a R-4 occupancy, and a 4193SN may be present as well to split the attic heats into their own zone. (One could add another 4193SN to the system to split the pulls and/or the kitchen system from the 2-wire smokes, but that might be overkill.)
One of the 4101SN relay modules feeds a NC signal to the dry-contact input on the NAC extender that corresponds with the NAC input that is accepting the NAC output from the Vista. The other 4101SN relay is wired using its NC terminals in series with AUX power on the NAC extender; this signal is fed to the primary sync module’s SYNC terminals.
All 4 NAC outputs from the extender are brought through the sync modules, which are a pair of Gentex GTSMs in a daisy-chain configuration. These drive Gentex GHSLFs throughout the building (as the regular Commander3s and 4s don’t seem to support mixed T3/T4 signaling).
Finally, auxiliary 12V power and the RJ31X from the Vista are brought to a M2M MQ03-LTE-M-FIRE-AV or equivalent cellular fire communicator, using an input and an output on the communicator to supervise the line as documented in the manual for that device.
The system generates T3 for smoke, waterflow, or a manual pull (driving the NAC input on the extender but leaving both relays off), T4 for CO (turning both relays on), and 4 short tones alternating with a long tone for a gas leak (this is done by turning the relay that is connected to the dry contact input on, while programming the relay that switches the control input to the sync module as 1s ON/1s OFF). Elevator recall is handled through NC contacts on smoke detector auxiliary relays.
(continuing from my prior post on the Powerhouse at Ashby complex since it seems that I exceeded the length limit on forum posts here!)
The center bar tower in the complex has six residential units on its ground floor, each with its own private patio that fronts out onto the “mews”/courtyard space between the center bar-tower and the liner buildings. While second-story work isn’t generally considered a concern for residential burglary, rendering a typical suite of passive measures that includes:
sufficient protection, the ground floor patio doors are much more vulnerable to attack due to their out-of-the-way, yet readily accessible, location.
As a result, the ground floor residential bays have their own burglar alarm and local surveillance systems that consist of:
This system provides at least a Basic protection level under UL 1641, although it does not fully conform to UL 1641 as there aren’t any UL 639 listed piezo glassbreaks, best I can tell. Instead of having independent local dialers, though, these systems report to the central station by cross tripping 24h zones on an additional B208 input card connected to the main burglar alarm system’s primary SDI2 bus. This provides both trouble and alarm reporting for these units via the main burglar alarm panel by shorting the zone to indicate an alarm state and opening it (via NO contacts in series with the loop and driven ON by the panel output) to indicate a trouble state. There is also a secondary power supply to the system provided from the access control/intrusion system PoE splitter; it takes over to keep the system alive if AC power to the unit has been shut off for an extended period of time.
Additionally, a further layer of passive protection for these units is supplied by their patio fences. Instead of using a typical architectural metal fence that can be easily vaulted or reached through, the fence system consists of 4.5’ tall tubular steel pickets on 4" centers with garrison-style (outward bent) anti-climb finials, supported on dual rails and holding up Spantek Juno architectural expanded metal panels that come partway up the finials to provide a leaning rail for patio occupants.
The 3.5’ wide outswing gate is a 6.5’ tall arched gate to prevent an intruder from reaching over it and has an 8’ tall overarch to further defend against an intruder vaulting the gate. The overarch also holds the patio’s LED lights, which are controlled by the aux contacts on a Bosch OD850 PIR mounted on the arch. The alarm contacts of this PIR provide a NC alarm output to another input on the GSC3570, and its wall/cover tamper output is monitored by the burglar alarm panel in the unit.
The four high-rise buildings, as well as the northern and central “liner” buildings on the east side of the site, have a burglar (intrusion) alarm for their commercial bays, consisting of:
Commercial bays upwards of 1000 sf in size in buildings with small bays are treated similarly to the small commercial bays, save for having:
The two single bay buildings in the complex have similar systems to the large bay system described above for their commercial bays, save for using a Bosch B6512 instead of the B9512G, connecting the IP camera directly to the EdgeRouter in lieu of using an Ethernet switch, and using a 7Ah battery for the panel instead of the 12Ah found in the larger systems. This limits their sensor current to 185mA instead of the 550mA available to the large bays in the larger buildings. They also use the panel’s built-in zones instead of having an input module connected, with zone 1 on the panel connected to the duress output from the residential intercom system, zone 5 on the panel supervising the intercom power supply, and the other panel zones connected in the same way as the input module for a large commercial bay.
These systems all provide at least Extent 3, if not Extent 2, protection for all commercial bays, as well as Safe Complete protection for a security container located within each commercial bay, and at least one IP camera with local recording capability, tenant-managed local viewing or offsite recording (albeit at limited resolution), and the capacity to video verify intrusion alarms.
The tenant services (management) office for the complex is located on the second floor (the floor above the parking podium) of the southernmost building. It has an access control and intrusion alarm system that shares its power supply with the two “remainder” small commercial bays in the building it is in, but uses the zones on the main panel instead of being wired to a zone expander.
In particular, this zone consists of:
A B901 door controller, set up with:
Zone 3 on the main panel is connected to Honeywell FG1025Zs providing instant perimeter glassbreak detection protecting the glazing for the office space
Zone 4 on the main panel is designated as an instant interior alarm zone for motion detection in the office space
Zone 6 on the main panel is used as a time controlled zone for the door on the rent depository (safe), including a delayed-response function while disarmed to serve as a door closure reminder
Zone 7 on the main panel is wired as an instant interior alarm zone connected to the safe seismic detector and depository chute contact, as well as the tamper contact on the seismic detector
Zone 8 on the main panel is a 24h zone wired to the tamper switch on the Knox box located on the outside of the pumphouse (since this needs to be handed as an intrusion alarm)
The “B” output from the panel is connected to trigger the beeper on the reader via a relay contact connected to the B901’s 5V output
The fire relay controlled power to the closer/holder on the office door is connected to the closer-holder via:
The office has two IP cameras:
This zone does not have a SDI/SDI2 keypad; instead, an access controlled entry disarms the zone, and it is rearmed using the access control system as well
When the zone is disarmed:
A virtual point created by combining AC power failure at the lock power supply and the door closed state is used as the interlock point for the door
The lockset itself was chosen to provide a limited privacy function via its thumbturn while still permitting frame-actuator-controlled access
The “B” output is programmed to provide confirmation beeps during arming, as well as any local audible alarms desired
The point behind the complex logic around the door is to permit the office to have its pick of:
during business hours while conserving power to the maximum degree possible and meeting fire code. This is important as the solenoid actuator on the ACSI Gemini locks is a fairly thirsty beast, and this is one of the few doors in the complex that is expected to be held in an unlocked state by the access control system for any length of time.
The overall protection is consistent with Extent 2 protection, as the office area is small enough that a small number of motion detectors can provide essentially complete floor coverage while the system is armed. Furthermore, due to the lack of a keypad, the system is able to provide 430mA of sensor power, which is more than enough for comprehensive glassbreak and motion detection within a space of that size.
Due to the nature of the space, though, it does not have a local siren, instead relying entirely on central station reporting. It does provide a degree of theft protection for the complex’s key safe, though, with the safe’s built-in tamper switch backed up by a CCTV camera set to record anyone using the key safe. The cameras for the outside of the office and the key safe are also set up to permit visual verification of both office intrusion and key safe tamper conditions.
This space also has a Grandstream GCC6010W router/IP-PBX/AP combination in it connecting the WAN to the office LAN and WLAN and the office telephones to an ISP-supplied SIP trunk. The office IP telephones (up to 4 of them) are supplied with PoE power via an Altronix NetWay5P switch located in the office DC supply case; one of the 12V outputs from the office DC supply case also is used to feed the GCC6010W to give it “CO” battery power.
The DC supply itself consists of:
Additionally, an Axis I8116-E video intercom is present, run from PoE using an Altronix NetWay1 injector on one of the GCC6010W’s LAN ports, fed from the eFlow6NB’s auxiliary output. (This can supply up to 12W of power, sufficient for the I8116-E.) This intercom is paired with an Axis A9801 security relay so that tampering with the intercom cannot be used to gain entry to the space.
This gives us 8 hours of “CO” battery atop the standby generator, albeit with little margin for more. Of course, we may gain some margin back if the cameras or ONT come in under budget, and this doesn’t account for the constant lock power being dropped by the B901 during AC failure.
Finally, there is the matter of the depository safe itself. As there are no UL fire rated mail/deposit slots, the depository head is mounted into the wall cavity formed by an ADA-compliant, fire-rated chute door, with a 12 gauge sheet metal guard used to protect the interior wallboard from damage and prevent deposited material from falling into the wall cavity. The chute door itself is self-closing and has a NC door contact on it that is connected to a SDC EA-SN standalone door prop alarm; this alarm is configured to auto-reset 60s after the door is closed and for a NC door control input, and is powered from the 12V DC supply.
(continued again below!)
I really like how detailed this is. Speaking from experience, I can tell a lot of time went into this. I like that you went with Potter. The biggest potter system I’ve seen was in a 10 story hotel.
Here’s a system for a VERY large high school with a 4120 network and mass notification system
Node 1: main building
Panel: Simplex 4100es
Pulls: 4099s with ADA handle
Smokes: 4098s (with and without heat sensors)
NAs: 49SVs indoors and Wheelock vandal-resistant speakers and Simplex weatherproof strobes outdoors
Node 2: performing arts center
Panel: Simplex 4010es
Pulls smokes and NAs are identical to those in the main building
Node 3: athletics facility
Panel: Simplex 4010es
Pulls smokes and NAs are identical to those in the main building
Each building also has a Potter SH-120 functioning as a sprinkler alarm
Original System
Panel: Ademco VISTA-128FB
Keypads: Ademco 6139Rs (even though the 6160CR existed in 2003, the installer still had a lot of legacy keypads in stock.), Honeywell 6270 TouchCenter keypad located in security office.
Pull Stations: Ademco 5140MPS-2s w/ Ademco 4193SN monitor modules
Smoke Detectors: Ademco 5192SDs Addressable V-Plex® Smoke Detector
Signals: System Sensor P1224MCWs, 15/75CD, electromechanical T3
Renovation
In 2015, the office building was expanded which added more office spaces, a new lounge/break room, and a shipping department. Below is the list of devices in the new space.
Keypads: Honeywell 6160CR
Smoke Detectors: Honeywell 5193SD V-Plex® Smoke Detector (newer than the 5192SD, this one is essentially an addressable System Sensor i3 instead of an addressable 2100S)
Pull Stations: Fire-Lite BG-12Ses w/ Honeywell 4193SN monitor modules
Signals: System Sensor P2Ws
During the installation of the new devices, a System Sensor MDL was also installed next to the panel. The existing notification circuit was wired to this along with the expansion so the entire building could have synchronized signals. The system is using both bell circuits for the fire alarms as there are no burglary devices on the system. All addressable devices in the expansion area are on a Honeywell 4297 V-Plex® Loop Extender Module.
Nice system! I love on how the installer had a lot of the legacy keypads in stock! That makes my heart happy!
I’m a fein for old Ademco so I just had to say something about it lmao
