A rather large hotel, with 10 stories. Built around the mid-70s era.
The building used to have an older Simplex system, but was torn out and a Siemens MXL was put into a locked room on the ground floor.
Testing on the fire alarm system is under way, so alarms are frequent!
There are Cerberus MS-51 pulls in each of the hallways outside the rooms, and scattered in commons areas (like the lobby and dining room).
There are Cerberus MTL-S15-S horn/strobes in hallways and commons areas set to 120BPM march time by panel and coded to continuous horn.
In each room are white Wheelock MIZ-24Ss (120BPM march time) and newer non-system Firex smoke/CO detectors.
However, remnants of the old Simplex system still remain! There are 2901-9838s in the stairways and there is a C7001T on the top of each stairway (on the ceiling).
The system smokes are newer Cerberus photo smoke/heats in the hallways and commons areas, but there are older Cerberus fixed temp heats in stairways and in the basement.
I’m building a school (not literally of course) that is supposed to be a new Intermediate school for our district. It’s a fairly big school so there’ll be.
Panel: Simplex 4100
Pulls: Addressible Fire Lite BG 12 Pullstations
Notification Appliances: Simplex Addressible TrueAlerts in hallways and common areas and TrueAlert Strobes in classrooms and bathrooms.
Smokes: Simplex Addressible Smokes in hallways, stairwells, etc.
In a museum in Lansing, there are Wheelock ET-1070-LSM-24s along with Edwards 270-SPO’s, however, in ONLY ONE area, there is an EST Genesis Speaker/Strobe. They do this following message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoL_pPNeNgU.
In another conventional building, there are System Sensor SpectrAlert Speaker/Strobes, Simplex 4099-9003 pulls, and 4903-9168s in some exit areas. They do this following message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNx6nCnDwwk.
A school was built in 1950 and it contained a coded system, with Simplex coded pulls and Simplex single-stroke bells.
In 1970, an addition was made, with Simplex coded pulls and 4030 horns.
And in 1985, another addition was put on, containing a Simplex panel, 4251 Chevrons and 4051’s with double projectors, mounted on 4050-85 plates with flashers. This called for an upgrade to the old system, which meant removal of the old stuff. New 4051+Double Projector+ 4050-85’s with flashers were installed. Coded to Continuous. All the pulls in the old sections became Chevrons.
A 4051 died in 1991, so it was replaced with a Faraday 6020 horn.
Code changes in 1996 changed local codes, and the school was upgraded:
New Simplex 4005, 4903-9219’s replacing EVERYTHING, and new 2099 pulls.
2007 came and brought with it a MASSIVE addition, which meant the panel had to be replaced yet again- This time a 4120. All pulls were now addressable 2099’s, and there were about 150 TrueAlerts installed in the new section. This place had a LOT OF SPACE!
Later that year, the oldest section was renovated.
Pretty weird to have BG-10s along with Simplex Alarms due to the fact there are no buildings (in real life) that have Simplex alarms with non-Simplex Pulls.
In a store, there were Simplex 4903-9168 speaker/strobes along with 4099-9001 pulls on a 4100 system. They also have Simplex TrueAlert Remote Strobes in the Bathrooms. They do this message heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9BvsJ48Wo. However, the strobes on the speakers started to malfunction (They were testing the alarm system, they do system tests yearly), and they replaced it with FCI Speaker/Strobes (the one that has a bubble on the strobe). The pulls, remote strobes, and panels were kept.
In another store, there were Simplex 4903-9168 speaker/strobes, along with 4099-9001 pulls on a 4100 system. They have TrueAlert strobes in the bathrooms. They do that same message from weatherdan’s college but without the chime in the beginning. However, a kid went crazy taking a hockey stick (yes, it’s a sports store) and smashed the glass from the strobe by accident, then deciding to smash the glass on the strobes from literally all the alarms in the buildings. Then one of the staff members called the Simplex Corporate office (yes, they know what all the alarm components are made by) telling one of them that a kid smashed the strobes of all the units, and gave them their address. Five days later, the SimplexGrinnell van arrived and a tech came in and inspected all the alarms. He decided to call FCI if they could come in and replace the alarms but they said no. So he decided to call Edwards if they could come in and replace the alarms and they said “yes”. A week later they replaced the speakers with Edwards Integrity speaker/strobes. The remote strobes, pulls and panels were kept.
In a high school there were Edwards 792s (refer here) with Edwards 270-SPO’s hooked up to an Edwards panel (help me with the Edwards panels). But in 2002, the 792s and 270-SPO’s went bad. They replaced the 792s with TrueAlerts, 270-SPO’s with 2099 Generic T-Bars (they say “FIRE” on two sides), the Edwards panel has been replaced with a 4005 in favor to produce code-3.
A middle school was built in 1995. There were System Sensor MASS’s (with trim plates) and Simplex 2099-9754s installed on a 4001 System. In main halls, big classrooms, and library, they are set to Hi-Lo (1000/800Hz Alternating). But in pathway halls they are set to 1200 Hz Interrupted. The small classrooms have PA400Bs. The bathrooms have System Sensor SS strobes. Now they added a new wing in 2007. The new wing has Wheelock NS’s set to code-3, Fire-Lite BG-12LX’s, Fire-Lite MS-5UD panel, Wheelock MIZ mini-horn unit’s (code-3) in the newer classrooms, One lone Wheelock AS (continuous), RSSs in the bathrooms, and ZNS’s in the new conference room. However, they had the MS-5UD coded to march time until mid-October. The MS-5UD is set to normal right now. The school’s name is Columbus Middle School.
A Middle School which has two buildings. The basement of the first building only has the itinerants in place and the gym. The second building has no basement. It’s called the George R. Ariyoshi Middle School.
Building 1:
1. Wheelock MTs in the hallways
2. Mircoms in the Health Rooms
3. Wheelock AS in the Assembly Room
4. Integrity in the Art and Music Room
5. One 4050 in the Library
Building 2:
U-HNHs over here
TrueAlerts in the Computer Room they have over there